Systemics (or, Exhibition as a Series). Index of Exhibitions and Related Materials, 2013-14
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32JK3
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Sternberg Press
- ISBN
- 978-3-95679-162-8
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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6
- Research group(s)
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2 - Exhibition Research Lab
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The research makes an intervention into the field of contemporary curating by introducing the historical influence of second-order cybernetics. It posits the concepts of ‘systemics’ and ‘reflexive feedback loops’ as a curatorial and conceptual method. The term systemics is applied to reflect on conditions for making curatorial ‘events’ that are extended over longer (research) durations to connect their constituent elements across space and time - exhibitions, texts, projects – formally and thematically, overlapping and feeding into one another like reflexive feedback loops in a cybernetic system. The research offers new insights into experimental exhibition formats as a cumulative series, that unfold ideas through their temporal relations.
Developed through a series of curated exhibitions over a two year period at Kunsthal Aarhus Denmark, the research is published in printed book form, with commissioned theoretical writing, index of exhibitions and projects, and a conceptual overview by Prof. Krysa. The project expands from previous research and collaborations by Prof. Krysa, such as published chapter in ‘Networks’ (ed. Lars Band Larsen, Whitechapel Gallery’s Documents of Contemporary Art/MIT Press 2015) and a symposium at Tate Modern, London,‘Look back, think forward: re-shaping the Nordic avant garde’, May 2016.
The work formed part of an ongoing collaboration with Aarhus University, feeding into the development of their MA Curating programme (began in 2018), establishing a collaborative post-doctoral position between Kunsthal Aarhus and Aarhus University funded by New Carlsberg Foundation (began in 2015), and leading eventually to the establishment of a partnership with LJMU’s Exhibition Research Lab. It attracted international reviews as listed in Contextual Information.
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- Non-English
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