READING LIST

- "When Attitudes Become the Norm: The Contemporary Curator and Institutional Art" by Beti Zerovc (2015)
- "The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Cultures" by Paul O'Neill (2012)

"Curator as Artist as Curator" by Joseph Doubtfire & Guiliia Ranchetti for CuratingThe Contemporary (30/04/15)

"The art exhibition, which once tended to be a fairly nondescript vehicle or frame for displaying artworks - one that was only minimally "authored" by the person who made it, whether dealer or art custodian - has moved in a direction where it can now be, increasingly, also an independent display item in itself, a specific authored whole that tells its own story."
- Beti Zerovc, "When Attitudes Become the Norm: The Contemporary Curator and institutional Art" (p.177)

"Typically involved in the process of creating, the artist-curator uses space, objects and thus the exhibition as medium with its own agency, curating in line with his/her ideas, interests and most probably with his/her own visual or artistic practice in mind. With the difficulty, not impossibility, of dichotomising that which the artist makes, from that which the artist curates, we begin to comprehend the exhibition as medium. Much discussion would appear to suggest that in the expanding field of the artist performing as curator, the rhetoric of the exhibition appears, to some extent, to have superseded the aptitude of the individual work or the agenda of the artist. When exhibition becomes medium, employed as a material through which to think, and through which to speak, it is often discussed as something that overshadows the artworks it encompasses. The curator, or in this case the artist-curator, in the process of bringing works together, creates new narrative through and with existing narratives, present within the work composed by the work’s maker.
- Joseph Doubtfire & Guilia Ranchetti, "Curator as Artist as Curator", Curating The Contemporary (30/04/2015)