Curating Research (Paperback)

This anthology of newly commissioned texts presents a series of detailed examples of the different kinds of knowledge production that have recently emerged within the field of curatorial practice. The first volume of its kind to provide an overview of the theme of research within contemporary curating, Curating Research marks a new phase in developments of the profession globally. Consisting of case studies and contextual analyses by curators, artists, critics and academics, including Hyunjoo Byeon, Carson Chan and Joanna Warsza, Chris Fite-Wassilak, Olga Fernandez Lopez, Kate Fowle, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Liam Gillick, Georgina Jackson, Sidsel Nelund, Simon Sheikh, Henk Slager, tranzit.hu, Jelena Vestic, Marion von Osten and Vivian Ziherl, and edited by curators Paul O'Neill and Mick Wilson, the book is an indispensible resource for all those interested in the current state of art and in the intersection between research and curating that underlies exhibition-making today.

Dr. Paul O'Neill is a curator, artist, educator and writer based in Helsinki and New York. He is the Artistic Director of PUBLICS (publics.fi), a new art space and curatorial agency in Helsinki. Between 2013-17 he was Director of the Graduate Program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Paul has co-curated more than sixty exhibition projects across the world including most recently We are (Epi)center, P! Gallery, New York, 2016 and We are the Center... at the Hessel Museum, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, 2016-17. His writing has been published in many books, catalogues, journals and magazines and he is a regular contributor to Art Monthly. He is reviews editor for Art and the Public Sphere Journal and on the editorial boards of FIELD and The Journal of Curatorial Studies. He is editor of the curatorial anthology, Curating Subjects (2007), and co-editor of Curating and the Educational Turn with Mick Wilson (2010), and Curating Research (2013) all published by de Appel and Open Editions (Amsterdam and London). He is author of Locating the Producers: Durational Approaches to Public Art (Amsterdam, Valiz, 2011) co-edited with Claire Doherty. He is author of the critically acclaimed The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), (MIT Press, 2012). His most recent co-edited anthologies in a series of three are: The Curatorial Conundrum (2016); How Institutions Think (2017) are co-edited with Lucy Steeds and Mick Wilson, and Curating After the Global (2019) are all published with LUMA, CCS Bard, the MIT Press.