This book is a bit pompous, but I'm mainly just looking at the parts that give insights into art and exhibitions - function, distribution, their impact, how they relate to their audiences...etc...
Massimiliano Gioni / Interview 2007 (continued)
pg. 34 - Carolee Thea (CT): 'The notion of site-specificity refashioned the idea of the journey by no longer confining it to the abstract gallery space.
Through this, a form of domestic tourism was invented - one that renewed ties with the modern tradition of the flaneur and his fascination with the strangeness of the city and its slightly tawdry glamour'
Okwui Enwezor / Interview 2003
pg. 52 - OE: It's interesting to look at the exhibition as a medium that is part of a continuing cultural practice. What comes out of that understanding is a larger awareness of how you tell a story, because exhibitions are narrative by nature - one thing after another: sentences, paragraphs, line breaks, punctuation, exclamation marks, etc'
'An exhibition for me is as much a textual as a visual device'
Charles Esche / Interview 2005
pg. 60 - CT: 'The word curator means "overseer, guardian, agent." In Latin law, the curator was appointed guardian of a person legally unfit to conduct him - or herself, such as a minor or a lunatic.
However the curator in the Middle Ages is known specifically as somebody in a clerical position, a priest for whom the exhibition would be an ecclesiastical display of who would be crucial to the organisation of religious spaces and beyond.
Today, in the exhibition, the curator takes into account both the zeitgeist and repressed history - a history associated with individual motivations, with the transcultural and the mythic'
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