ON-CURATING.ORG Reinterpreting Collections

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http://www.on-curating.org/documents/oncurating_issue_1211_large.pdf

Nowadays we can observe clear changes in relation to working with
collections. One change is the comeback of the collection as the basis
of the exhibition programme. At the same time, this implies a factor of
site-specificity and reflects the origin of the museum. However, even if
the collection is creatively varied, the core audience still prefers
event exhibitions, since it has been trained to look for well-known
names. By trusting in familiar names, visitors perhaps hope not to be
disappointed.

What is the significance of the collection nowadays, and how can
audience interest be won? The insight into some successful and some
criticized projects, each irradiating the theme from another
perspective, enables us to make up our mind about concepts for
curatorial work on collections. In this issue of On-Curating.org,
our aim was to find out what possibilities there are for drawing new
attention to the collection from visitors, artists, and curators: not
only to its highlights, but to the collection as a whole, and to its
history. This issue also explores which contexts can trigger
new interpretations of old works, and methods of affecting museum
structures from the outside so that they are less likely to fossilize.

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Contributors: Marjatta Hölz, Subhadra Das, Malte Roloff and Iris
Ströbel Rewind,
Annette Schemmel, Viola Rühse, Khadija Carroll La and Alex Schweder La,
Stella Rollig, Valentine Meyer, Jean Hubert Martin
Publisher: Dorothee Richter
Twelfth Issue: Reinterpreting Collections Editor: Marjatta Hölz
Web and Graphic Design Concept: Michel Fernández
Graphic Design Twelfth Issue: Jeannine Herrmann
Web Publishing Twelfth Issue: Linus Hunkeler
Administration: Amber Hickey (On-Curating.org)
Proofreading: Amber Hickey
Supported by: The Postgraduate Programme in Curating, Institute for
Cultural Studies,
Department of Cultural Analysis, Zurich University of the Arts
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