'The Museum of Today': Harald Szeemann's Science Fiction. (1st April 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'The Museum of Today': Harald Szeemann's Science Fiction. (1st April 2018)
- Main Title:
- 'The Museum of Today': Harald Szeemann's Science Fiction
- Authors:
- Muller, Lizzie
- Abstract:
- Harald Szeemann's 1967 exhibition Science Fiction is ripe for re-examination. Insights gained from unpublished handwritten notes reveal Szeemann's endless listmaking as a connective curatorial methodology that sought to re-create an expansive science fiction 'state of mind'. The resulting exhibition of over 3, 000 diverse objects stands in contrast to the sterile space-age aesthetics of the white cube that was, at the same moment, becoming the pre-eminent form of contemporary art display. The popular response to Science Fiction stimulated Szeemann to conceptualize a 'Museum of Today' that would dynamically reflect its moment in time – a concept that resonates in Szeemann's subsequent work and in contemporary curatorial practice.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of curatorial studies. Volume 7:Number 1(2018)
- Journal:
- Journal of curatorial studies
- Issue:
- Volume 7:Number 1(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 7, Issue 1 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0007-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 76
- Page End:
- 95
- Publication Date:
- 2018-04-01
- Subjects:
- Curatorship -- Periodicals
Exhibitions -- Periodicals
708.0075 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/index/ ↗
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal, id=205/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1386/jcs.7.1.76_1 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2045-5836
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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