The association is pleased to present “Réalités du commissariat d’exposition”, a book produced under the direction of C-E-A / French Association of Curators.

The emergence of independent curators is a reflection of profound structural changes in the economy and in relations between actors in the world of contemporary art. “Réalités du commissariat d’exposition” wishes to approach the critical axes of a practice all the more complex that it evolves in an environment in a state of theoretical crisis, which constantly takes its own protagonists of speed. Combining contributions and current events, this book presents the analyzes of curators as well as observers from the human sciences. Thus, a multifaceted commissioner emerges, whose versatility and doubts, in complex professional and ethical situations, become the marker of the evolutions of a whole cultural sector.

With the contributions of: Sophia Krzys Acord, Christian Besson, Beatrice von Bismarck, Laurent Jeanpierre, Pablo Lafuente, Isabelle Mayaud, Pedro Neves Marques, Stewart Martin, Manuel Segade and Séverine Sofio.

And the testimonials of: Antonia Alampi, Nicolas Bourriaud, Michel Gauthier, Raphaele Young, Sebastien Gokalp, Charlotte Laubard and Emilie Renard.

A book directed by Damien Airault with the collaboration of Estelle Nabeyrat for the association C-E-A, published in co-edition by the FINE ARTS OF PARIS and the NATIONAL CENTER OF PLASTIC ARTS.

Price: € 17
Paperback, 107 pages, 155 x 240 mm
ISBN 978-2-84056-442-3
French version
Diffusion: Flammarion Diffusion
Legal deposit: May 2015

SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION
Damien Airault and Estelle Nabeyrat

TYPES AND DEGREES OF CURATORIAL REALITY
A SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH
Laurent Jeanpierre, Isabelle Mayaud with the collaboration of Séverine Sofio

Émilie Renard, excerpt from the round table The exhibition without cube

TAKE WHAT YOU CAN GET AND CALL IT LOVE
Manuel Segade

Antonia Alampi, extract from the round table Economic and intellectual tools

ACTANTS AND CHARACTERS OF THE EXHIBITION
BRIEF SEEMOTIC AND PRAGMATIC INDICATIONS
Christian Besson

Raphaële Jeune, excerpt from the round table Geographies of the curator

CRITICAL ROLE AND FREEDOM OF THE EXHIBITION CURATOR IN THE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC FIELD
Beatrice von Bismarck

Nicolas Bourriaud, extract from the round table Communicating a thought

CURATION WITHOUT CONCEPT
Pedro Neves Brands

Charlotte Laubard, excerpt from the round table Commissioners, curators, etc.

INTERVIEW WITH PABLO LAFUENTE
Estelle Nabeyrat

Michel Gauthier, extract from the round table Communicating a thought

AESTHETIC EDUCATION AGAINST AESTHETIC EDUCATION
Stewart Martin

Sébastien Gokalp, extract from the round table Commissioners, curators, etc.

SLIDING SENSES: THE COMMISSIONER ON INVITATION TO THE MUSEUM
Sophia Krzys Acord

THE ECOSYSTEM OF ART: DIAGRAM

BIOGRAPHIES OF CONTRIBUTORS

THANKS