Hubs and Fictions. On Current Art and Imported Remoteness
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 2416
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Sternberg Press
- ISBN
- 9783956790256
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Art
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Edgar Schmitz’s book Hubs and Fictions is the culmination of four years of interdisciplinary research into the distributedness of global contemporary art infrastructures, as well as the crucial role of futurity and speculation in contemporary art’s emerging museum infrastructures in East and South-East Asia, particularly Hong Kong and mainland China. _x000D_
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The research developed across three inter-connected sites: a monographic exhibition in four iterations that staged ‘cameo’ appearances of key international art world protagonists as catalysts of institutional relevance; a touring forum exploring the role of fiction as methodology to enact and bridge remoteness in globalised curatorial practice; the co-edited ‘Hubs and Fictions’ book which coheres the commissioned contributions into an introduction to the debate on how globalised art world hubs are constituted and how key modalities of contemporary artistic practice are entangled in their semi-fictionality. _x000D_
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The broader research project developed as an ongoing research dialogue between Schmitz’s artistic and discursive practice and Sophia Hao’s expanded curatorial practice in Scotland and mainland China. Drawing on their respective professional fields, Schmitz and Hao invited key contributors from current and recent curatorial practice to reflect on how non-Western hubs for contemporary art are performed as semi-fictional forms and formats. _x000D_
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Curating the fora and editing the book were in themselves key modes of research. Composing the panels offered a way of orchestrating the multi-disciplinary constitution of the infrastructures under investigation, whilst the committed editorial work on the book allowed Schmitz and Hao to further demonstrate how the diverse registers and discussions co-constitute the very possibility of the ‘global contemporary’ as enacted fiction. In addition, the newly commissioned introduction, as well as Schmitz’s new image sequence and the concluding reflections between Schmitz and Hao, further contextualise and frame this investigation as a dynamic resource for further research.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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