Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating
Jens Hoffmann
Mousse Publishing
English
Softcover
144 pages
155 x 240 mm
2012
ISBN 9788867490530
In Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating ten distinguished contemporary curators pose and then propose answers to a series of key questions related to curating, art and exhibition making today: What Is a Curator? What Is the Public? What Is Art? What About Collecting? What Is an Exhibition? Why Mediate Art? What To Do with the Contemporary? What About Responsibility? What Is the Process? How About Pleasure? The book originates from a series of ten commissioned essays for Mousse magazine, appeared over a period of two years, in 2011 and 2012. Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating is a project published by Mousse in collaboration with the Fiorucci Art Trust.
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About the Editor
Jens Hoffmann is a writer, editor, educator, exhibition maker, and art dealer from Costa Rica. In 2018 Hoffmann founded the Office for Curatorial Wonders (OCW), an international operating agency for exhibition-making based in New York, which publishes the interdisciplinary cultural journal Duchamp’s Socks and organises the People’s Biennial.
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About the Publisher
Mousse Publishing is an independent publishing house founded in 2006. Born as a spin-off of Mousse, the contemporary art magazine, Mousse Publishing was created to give every printed project originality, care, and respect. Mousse Publishing makes books with artists, writers, public and private institutions, galleries, and other art and cultural initiatives. Our focus is on artist monographs and artist books, conceived and created in concert with the artist. Mousse Publishing also releases online contents, printed ephemera, and artist editions.
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