Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception

Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception undertakes a unique critical survey and analysis of prevailing group exhibition-making practices in Europe, the UK and North America.

Stéphanie Bertrand is a Canadian curator and researcher based in Greece. She holds a PhD in Museology from the School of Architecture at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki and an MFA Curating from Goldsmiths College, London. She is the recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship, Onassis Foreigner's Fellowship, and Hannah Arendt Prize in Critical Theory & Creative Research. She is currently a Marie Sk-odowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow at Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture & Technology at Concordia University, Montreal, and ICS-FORTH, Heraklion.

Introduction; 1. The Parallel Rise of Inclusion, Transparency and Curating; 2. Inclusionary Practices: Representative Diversity and Indiscriminate Address; 3. Transparent Practices: Artistic Reference and Art World Distribution Networks; 4. Curatorial Mediation: Openness, Processuality and Indeterminacy; 5. Referential Opacity: A New Framework for Practice; 6. Three Corollaries: Instrumentality, Assessment Criterion and Bounded Address; Conclusion