0-920159-99-0

May 2003

$24.95 CDN / $15.95 US

6 x 9 - 208 pages - 22 b&w photos - paper

Edited by: Melanie Townsend

Banff Launch: May 7, 2003, 7 pm, the Walter Phillips Gallery Lobby in Glyde Hall at The Banff Centre, St. Julien Road

Published in association with the Banff International Curatorial Institute and the Walter Phillps Gallery.

The white cube — it’s a vision of the gallery museum that has dominated thinking and practice in the art world for decades. Beyond the Box: Diverging Curatorial Practices is a collection of essays by leading Canadian and international curators and artists that explores regions of practice outside this "cube," delving into contemporary challenges to traditional ideas about art and curating.

With four main topics of inquiry — Publications, New Media, Biennials, and Art Museums Today — Beyond the Box captures groundbreaking thinking and writing from some of the world’s top curator’s and artists. It exposes the passion, creativity, and determination behind successes such as the publications of the Hoopoe-Curatorial, and installations like The Universal Lab, as well as critical commentary documenting the collapse of the 2000 São Paulo Biennial.

The third in a series of books about curatorship published by the Banff Centre Press in association with the Walter Phillps Gallery and the Banff International Curatorial Institute, Beyond the Box will be a touchstone for artists and curators alike. Other books in the series include Naming a Practice: Curatorial Strategies for the Future (collected by Peter White, 1996) and The Edge of Everything: Reflections on Curatorial Practice (edited by Catherine Thomas, 2002).

Contents:

• Acknowledgements, Melanie Townsend
• Foreword, Jon Tupper
• The Troubles with Curating, Melanie Townsend
• Publications
  • Thoughts on Exhibition Publishing, Peter White
  • A River, Not a Road. Publishing in the Arts: The Seagull Experience, Anjum Katyal
  • Hurrah for the Irish! Susan Martin
  • Ping, Bruce Grenville
• Biennials
  • Biennials Biennials Biennials Biennials Biennials Biennials Biennials, Ivo Mesquita
  • Another Hysterical Attempt to Theorize About Defeat: Untimely Remarks on the Fate of the XXV Bienal de São Paulo’s Curatorial Team, Cuauhtémoc Medina
  • International Exhibitions: A Distribution System for a New Art World Order, Jessica Bradley
• Art Museums Today
  • Contemporary Art Practices and the Museum: To be Reconciled at All? Stella Rollig
  • "A museum is not a business. It is run in a businesslike fashion." Andrea Fraser
  • Fidelity, Betrayal, Autonomy: In and Beyond the Post Cold-War Art Museum, Gregory Sholette
• New Media
  • Silicon to Carbon: Thought Chips, Sara Diamond
  • Toward a Theory of the Practice of Curating New Media Art, Sarah Cook