Studies in Curating Art
Studies in Curating Art was founded in 2014 to explore curatorial research and the connection between curatorial theory and practice.
Edited around a selected theme, the series has typically provided an opportunity for students in the MA programme to work with publishing as a curatorial tool. It moreover acts as a platform for faculty research into the curatorial.
Click on the headlines below to read about each issue that have been published in the book series.
International Master’s program in Curating, including Art, Management and Law
Anatomy of a Cowboy
Studies in Curating Art VIII
Anatomy of a Cowboy explores an archetype through postmortem and undressing. Each chapter picks through the cowboy, his bones, and attributes. We are building an image for and with artists while asking: “Why the cowboy? Why now? Why us?” Our postmortem also reveals the foundational innards of the cowboy’s sordid history. Violence is inherent to this character and the brutish things it represents. Through butchering the iconic effigy, along with its trappings, we collectively envision what would happen if the lone rider was stripped bare and captured by the arts. We’ve splayed him out nicely between these pages. We’re looking for something beneath all the bells and whistles, shrewdly stealing pieces from his being. Still suckers for the cinematic, we couldn’t help but scatter appropriations of some of the cowboy’s most enduring attributes. Hints of weather-beaten leather or loops of lasso parade through the texts and design. A dust cover serves to protect from a harsh reality and only just mutes flecks of pearl and steel. The material cowboy is reflected here.
CONTRIBUTORS: Slüshie Alexander; Jonatan Habib Engqvist; Lauren Johnson; Charlie ‘Scarz’ Keegan; Greil Marcus; Rikke Villadsen; Làura Viruly; Nathalie Viruly
Editors: Ester d’Avossa; Clara Donadoni; Hannah Ingvoldstad; Charlotte Keegan; Nathalie Viruly; Linnea Wästfelt
Editorial board: Valentina Sansone
Chair of programme and course leader: Robin McGinley
Art direction, graphic design & illustrations: Antonio Gargiulo
ISBN: 978-91-89107-43-4
Across and Beyond: Body and Landscape in Translation
Studies in Curating Art VII
Translation is a careful process of carrying across the fullness of a spoken, written, signed, hummed or visualised message. Unavoidably, things will get lost, or spilled, along the way. In this publication, edited by three students in the International MA in Curating Art at Stockholm University, eleven artists address the act of translating across both human and non-human communication, thereby creating new universes in which to exist.
“We have approached translation in terms of expansion, extraction and presence – as a profoundly intimate, embodied phenomenon and something that we do constantly in order to understand the contexts and landscapes in which we live. We have investigated its leaky qualities, its elements of surprise and its possibilities for both displays of power, oppression and refuge. In an era of increasing polarisations, shifting identity politics and climate breakdown, we are constantly redefining our relationships to ourselves, each other and our environment, making translation in this expanded perspective particularly urgent.”
Editorial Board: Robin McGinley, Valentina Sansone
Editors: Karolina Aastrup, Paulina Granat, Isabelle Ribe
Graphic Design: Simon Nilsson
Published by the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University 2022
ISBN: 978-91-89107-31-1
ISSN: 2003-2862
Ghosts Carry Messages of the Future
Studies in Curating Art VI
In Spring 2021, Ghostbusters-Anti-Racist Working Group has reached out to groups in Stockholm who share and work towards anti-racist practices. Contained in this publication is an edited transcript of a roundtable conversation between Ghostbusters-ARWG, Brown Island, branching out from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, and SKH Brown Island, based at Stockholm University of the Arts.
“Flowing from personal experiences, we are firstly able to collectively explore how whiteness’ strategies for self-preservation largely yield the same reactions regardless of where it is challenged. This also works to reflect on how whiteness moves through institutions, particularly of learning. Secondly, the making of this publication served as a moment of solidarity-making, where learning across our differences was possible. We attended to the question of how we may be there for each other as we go about this work in our respective environments."
With additional contributions by John-Paul Zaccarini and Rudy Loewe.
Editorial Board: Robin McGinley, Valentina Sansone
Editors: Ghostbusters – Anti-Racist Working Group
Advisor: John-Paul Zaccarini
Graphic Design: Louise Khadjeh-Nassiri and Johnny Chang
Published by the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University 2021
ISBN: 978-91-89107-09-0 (print) 978-91-89107-10-6 (pdf)
ISSN: 2003-2870
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Oracular Visions: In the Darkness of the Night
Studies in Curating Art V
In times of uncertainty, contemporary oracles can provide the answers to our questions. Students on the International MA in Curating Art at Stockholm University, who edited this book, have been investigating the entanglement between commissioning as a curatorial practice and the task of formulating and posing crucial questions. “Amidst this multiplicity of truths, and all the places and possibilities that a future could lead us to, perhaps what we are seeking is guidance and ways to navigate through what will come. Thus, we approached artists, art critics and curators, and asked them to provide their own oracular visions.”
Editorial Board: Robin McGinley, Valentina Sansone
Editors: Federica Brigo, Onur Çimen, Elias Kautsky, Ellen Klintenberg Gedda
Graphic Design: Tobias Kingstedt
Published by the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University 2020
ISBN: 978-91-87355-90-5
Dream Island
Studies in Curating Art IV
Dream Island can be anything you want it to be. From isolation to refuge and recreation, islands are alive with mixed meanings. In this publication, edited by students on the International MA in Curating Art at Stockholm University, these give space to writers to dwell upon themes of belonging, or the lack thereof, from a broad, yet pointed, perspective.
Editorial Board: Robin McGinley, Valentina Sansone.
Editors: Daria Sol Andrews, Lauren Johnson, Sofia Jonsson, Essi Vesala.
Graphic Design: Jasmine Berge, Frida Häggström, Lars Høie, Simon Nilsson.
Published by the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University 2019.
ISSN: 2003- 2862
ISBN: 978-91-87-355-77-6
Caress: A Candid Approach
Studies in Curating Art III
Caress: A Candid Approach is a collection of thoughts, shaped by the notion of care and care taking edited by students on the International MA in Curating Art at Stockholm University. A starting point for this publication is the realization that care is an intrinsic part of the practice of curators, educators, organizers and artists. In the process of articulation, the editors captured the notion of care by engaging in conversations, gathering different approaches, ideas and practices – a caress, only a fraction of what is essentially beyond measure.
Editorial board: Robin McGinley, Valentina Sansone.
Editors: Neuza Faria, Edit Fándly, Marianna Feher, Jenny Gedda, Lucie Gottlieb, Sander Hintzen, Niki Kralli Anell, Alen Ksoll, Rosa Paardenkooper.
Graphic design: Aron Kullander-Östling, Stefan Engblom, Kitty Schumacher.
Published by the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University 2018.
ISBN: 978-91-7773-544-1
Checking the Box
Studies in Curating Art II
The publication is envisioned as an extension of the exhibition "Coming Into Being" (RYMD Konstrum, Sickla 2016), which examined the contemporary construction of identities through the artistic modes of manifestation and role play. It focuses on diverse tools artists' deploy to examine and construct identities. In addition to some of the artists who were involved in the exhibition, further contributors were invited.
Editorial board: Jeff Werner, Magdalena Holdar, Pamela Schultz Nybacka, Robin McGinley.
Editors: Anna Baca, Daphne Carolus, Jovana Nedeljkovic.
Graphic design: Per Åhlund.
Published by the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University 2016.
ISBN: 978-91-7611-797-2
Blank Space
Studies in Curating Art I
BLANK SPACE presents essays that engage with the theme of space in curatorial practice. The contributing writers, all practicing curators, are Jennifer Lindblad, Liberty Paterson, Stefanie Hessler, Finbar Krook Rosato, Kristina Lindemann and Anneli Bäckman. Their texts are interwoven with reflections on curatorial space from leading international curators Philippe Pirotte, Rene de Guzman, and Magdalena Malm.
Editorial board: Magdalena Holdar, Pamela Schultz Nybacka, Jeff Werner.
Editors: Lisa Martin, Sally Müller, Brynja Sveinsdóttir.
Published by the Department of Art History at Stockholm University 2014.
ISBN: ISBN 978-91-87355-06-6
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