Site-Read: Seven Curators, Landmark Exhibitions assembles first-person accounts from seven exhibition makers whose projects fundamentally reordered the relationship between art, site, and institution — moving the exhibition form beyond the gallery wall and into landscape, street, sky, and broadcast.
About This Book
What does it take to stage an exhibition in a domestic interior, transmit it across television, or scatter it simultaneously across multiple cities? Site-Read answers through the voices of the people who did exactly that. Rather than retrospective analysis from outside, this anthology places the exhibition maker at the centre — their motivations, the logistics they navigated, and the consequences their shows produced. Contributors including Mary Jane Jacob, Alan W. Moore, Seth Siegelaub, and Jennifer Winkworth speak to works that challenged curatorial convention by treating the museum as a studio, dispersing art through mail, or staging interventions in the public sphere. The result resists hagiography while documenting structural innovation in exhibition practice with precision and candour.
Key Features
- 192 pages of curated first-person testimonies, curatorial reflections, and exhibition histories
- Contributors include Mary Jane Jacob, Alan W. Moore, Seth Siegelaub, Jennifer Winkworth, and others
- Published by Mousse Publishing
What You'll Discover
- How landmark exhibitions were conceived and executed outside conventional institutional frameworks — in streets, landscapes, and domestic spaces
- The curatorial logic behind dispersed and networked exhibition formats, including mail art and simultaneous happenings across multiple cities
- How publishing and broadcasting — books, television, online platforms — function as legitimate exhibition sites in their own right
- The tension between writing exhibition history and perpetuating myth, and how first-person accounts complicate received narratives
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- Dimensions: 140 x 200 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788867493937
- Publisher: Mousse Publishing
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Curators, artists, and critics interested in expanded exhibition practice, site-specific art history, and the politics of institutional space.