by Jens Hoffmann
- Author(s)
- Jens Hoffmann
- Publication
- Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2015
- Scope
- 88 Pages, illustrated, 19 cm.
- ISBN
- 9783956790874
Theater of Exhibitions analyzes “art after the end of art,” questioning whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing, and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice. The book also considers the current commodification of the art industry and the distribution of images in the digital age. Drawing from his formation in theater and his own curatorial work, Jens Hoffmann reflects on the spaces of contemporary art—the gallery, the institution, the biennial—and ultimately positions the discipline of curating in the context of a larger cultural sphere shaped by the political, social, and economic conditions of its time, while demanding new attitudes and new thinking. Hoffmann inventively connects the epic theater of Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator with the most recent developments in curatorial practice. “What is an appropriate form of assembly, an adequate embodied ritual for a global society in the twenty-first century? The exhibition still offers the best solution, yet it is increasingly perceived as falling short", Tino Sehgal.
- Keywords
- theatre , curating , visual culture , digitization
- Location
- Cabinet 10 - 2: Tentoonstellingsmodellen
- Remarks
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