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The Incurable-Image : Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts / Tarek Elhaik.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality : ESFIPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (198 p.) : 6 B/W illustrations 13 colour illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9781474403351
  • 9781474403368
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Summary: 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
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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

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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