The Incurable-Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts

An inquiry into the convergences of avant-garde film, trans-cultural media arts, experimental ethnography and curatorial practice in contemporary MexicoFrom the 1990s onwards the 'ethnographic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and cu...

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1. Verfasser: Elhaik, Tarek (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality : ESFI
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Zusammenfassung:An inquiry into the convergences of avant-garde film, trans-cultural media arts, experimental ethnography and curatorial practice in contemporary MexicoFrom the 1990s onwards the 'ethnographic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. While ethnography has been both generously and problematically re-appropriated by the art world, curation has seldom caught the conceptual attention of anthropologists.Based on two years of participant-observation in Mexico City, Tarek Elhaik addresses this lacuna by examining the concept-work of curatorial platforms and media artists. Taking his cue from ongoing critiques of Mexicanist aesthetics, and what Roger Bartra calls 'the post-Mexican condition', Elhaik conceptualizes curation less as an exhibition-oriented practice within a national culture, than as a figure of care and an image of thought animating a complex assemblage of inter-medial practices, from experimental cinema and installations to curatorial collaborations. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Paul Rabinow, the book introduces the concept of the 'Incurable-Image,' an antidote to our curatorial malaise and the ethical substance for a post-social anthropology of images.Key FeaturesA detailed study of the work of some of the most prominent experimental filmmakers, media artists and curators in contemporary MexicoAn engaging contribution to current discussions on the futures of the contemporary image and on the so-called 'anthropological turn' in visual and moving-image studiesThe conceptualisation of a specific category of the 'Image', namely the 'Incurable-Image'An innovative conceptualisation of contemporary curatorial thinking and practice as a question of intermediality
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (198 pages) 6 B/W illustrations 13 colour illustrations
ISBN:9781474403368

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