Making Conversation
Making Conversation
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Melbourne NowPagination
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engResearch statement
Background Exhibition-making in the contemporary museum is an increasingly complicated and contested enterprise. Curators attempt to balance a number of competing considerations which include spectacle and spectatorship, participation and the public interest, education, interpretation, institutional values, social trends, and insistent political agendas. Broaching many of those variables, artists-educators can play a valuable role in evaluating those practices. Contribution This essay discusses, the curatorial approach of the NGV’s large-scale survey exhibition, Melbourne Now from the perspective of a practicing artist and educator. The essay identifies a more relational and discursive art experience that is encouraged by the exhibition design which integrates contemporary works from the survey with the collection at large. Focusing on painting, the essay argues that this not only allows the viewer to make sense of contemporary practice in historical context (and vis versa) but allows for a more dynamic revaluation of both contemporary and historical works. Significance This essay is the feature article in the National Gallery of Victoria’s Melbourne Now Broadsheet publication, issue#3. The Broadsheet is a combination of scholarly and creative writings and graphic design available to the public in hard copy in the NGV gallery. The Broadsheet remains a significant cultural, scholarly, and material artifact supporting the Melbourne Now exhibition -the most ambitious ever undertaken by the NGV. Quantitative data will be added when available but exhibition visitors are likely to exceed 1 million.Publication classification
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NGV PublicationsPlace of publication
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