Theater, garden, bestiary: a materialist history of exhibitions

Contents

Foreword / Stéphanie Moisdon -- Introduction / Tristan Garcia and Vincent Normand -- Nymphéas transplant / Pierre Huyghe -- I. Frame and stage : enclosing the subject. Concepts for the critical study of art exhibitions as media / Kim West ; Theatricality, autonomy, negativity / conversation with Juliane Rebentisch ; Anatomy theater : the order of curiosity / Rafael Mandressi ; Exposability : on the taking-place in future of art / Lucy Steeds ; Looking at animals / Filipa Ramos ; Apparatus and form : the split identity of the exhibition / Vincent Normand ; Folded cuts / Etienne Chambaud -- II. The site of soght : carving the object. Seeing, showing, ordering : notes on a natural history of exhibiting / João Ribas ; On the aestheticization, institutionalization, and dramatization of the concept of nature / conversation with Olivier Surel and Charles Wolfe ; Exposition/exhibition : the French salons / Stéphane Lojkine ; Compensatory postures : on natural history, necroaesthetics, and humiliation / Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin ; The exhibition as parergon of artworks : Russian avant-garde experiments / Elitza Dulguerova ; Neither gesture nor work of art : exhibition as disposing for appearance / Tristan Garcia ; Anamazon / Pamela Rosenkranz -- III. The exhibition-form : spatializing the concept. Blank space : about the white cube and the generic condition of contemporary art / Jeremy Lecomte ; Exhibiting and sensibilizing : recontextualizing "Les Immatériaux" / Yuk Hui ; Self-expropriated museums / Anselm Franke ; Art institutions as ritual spaces : a brief genealogy of gatherings / Dorothea von Hantelmann ; How to exhibit the spatialization of history? / Sami Khatib ; The exhibition-form and the space-time of the artwork : a retroactive ontology / conversation with Peter Osborne ; The form of not (axiom) / Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni.