Edited by Paul O'Neill, this sleek and serious anthology of new curatorial writing edited features contributions from leading international curators, artists and critics including Julie Ault, Søren Andreasen &amp; Lars Bang Larsen, Carlos Basualdo, Dave Beech &amp; Mark Hutchinson, Irene Calderoni, Anshuman Das Gupta &amp; Grant Watson, Clémentine Deliss, Eva Diaz, Claire Doherty, Okwui Enwezor, Annie Fletcher, Liam Gillick, Jens Hoffmann, Robert Nickas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sarah Pierce, Simon Sheikh, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Andrew Wilson and Mick Wilson. Put together by the curator-critic Paul O'Neill, Curating Subjects, documents the inter-dependent relationships between the curatorial past, present and speculative futures and, instead of following the convention of curators writing about themselves, invites the authors to provide a text about the curatorial work of others. The result is an eclectic volume of accessible responses that provides a pluralistic and dynamic curatorial discourse where critical essays, theoretical explorations, propositions, historical overviews, interviews, exhibition critiques and fictional accounts sit side by side. Essential reading for students and professionals alike.

Curating Subjects

Arts & Photography

Jens Hoffmann

Irene Calderoni

Robert Nickas

Liam Gillick

Clémentine Deliss

Carlos Basualdo

Julie Ault

Lars Bang Larsen

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

History & Criticism

Open Editions/Occasional Table

Individual Artists

Lukas & Sternberg

The concept of nation has always played a central role in the domain of political representation. But also included in the structuring of a national identity is the use of the fine arts through commissions and state selected collections. Contemporary art, in turn, has taken up the theme of nation and national identity in order to develop other models of representational structures and to put hegemonic models into question.This catalog, documents works which productively and critically engage with the theme of national identity and nationalism, political populism, and also the phenomena of transit and domestic exoticism. Artists included are Nathan Carter, Jason Dodge, Michael Elmgreen/ Ingar Dragset, Keith Farquhar, Jonathan Horowitz, Brian Jungen, Josephine Meckseper, Sarah Morris, and Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de Rooij, among others.

Nation

Jennifer Allen

Katia Baudin

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

This cultural reader, edited by Creative Time curator Nato Thompson, gathers more than 100 artists, thinkers and activists to reflect on the historical roots and current manifestations of democracy in the United States. Taking as a springboard the exhibition Democracy in America: The National Campaign, presented by Creative Time in association with the Park Avenue Armory in September of 2008, this compendium includes writing and artwork by Laurie Anderson, Critical Art Ensemble, Liam Gillick, Jenny Holzer, Matt Keegan, Jon Kessler, Mark Tribe and many others; essays by Yates McKee, Doug Ashford of Group Material and curators Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy and Nato Thompson; and interviews with Critical Art Ensemble's Steve Kurtz, Rene Gabri &amp; Ayreen Anastas and Trevor Plagen--as well as a series of town hall-style conversations with artists and activists from five cities across the country.

A Guide to Democracy in America

Yates McKee

Anne Pasternak

Gregory Sholette

Creative Time Books

Michael Craig-Martin

History

Asia

GAGOSIAN GALLERY

This book documents Gillick's project for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2009. It contains an introduction by the curator, a text by Liam Gillick about his work as well as the text spoken by the kitchen cat present in the show: She speaks from the present and fights against the echoes of building's interior. Its history is one of misrepresentation, misunderstanding and desires. Thus, the pavilion becomes a location for endless self-circulating histories that in the end represents our history as well.

Liam Gillick: How Are You Going to Behave? A Kitchen Cat Speaks (English and German Edition)

Sternberg Press

From 199A to 199B

CCS Bard Hessel Museum

This new monograph, the first in 10 years to bring together a truly substantial body of Gillick's work, takes as its focus the artist's projects of the last five years, proposing a new reading of his oeuvre. It draws attention to the rigor of the thinking developed in both his sculptural work and his writings, as well as to his sharp visual sense of the structural and formal properties of his materials. Gillick appeared on the scene at the beginning of the 1990s, right in the middle of the YBA phenomenon, and has since had wide exposure in exhibitions like Documenta, Manifesta and the Venice Biennale, and in being nominated for the 2002 Turner prize.

Liam Gillick: Factories in the Snow

Lilian Haberer

JRP|Ringier

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