Social Curating and Its Public: Curators from Eastern Europe Report on Their Practises
<p>In the process of conceiving the current issue of <em>On Curating</em>, the debate between Claire Bishop and Grant Kester, which in 2006 occupied the pages of <em>Artforum</em> with a vehement discussion about the impact and merit of relational art, or what is most commonly referred to as socially engaged art, re-emerged as an unfinished discussion, especially in the context of the publication of each of their books in 2011 further developing their positions. Therefore, Cătălin Gheorghe and myself, decided to revisit the topic and in this issue of <em>On Curating</em>, <em>Social Curating and Its Public: Curators from Eastern Europe Report on Their Practises</em>, focusing not only on the producers, but as an attempt to understand how the public in socially engaged art relates to projects they participate in, in some cases as co-producer…</p>
Publisher: Dorothee Richter, Michael Birchall, Silvia Simoncelli
Editors: Olga Stefan, Cătălin Gheorghe
Contributors: Larissa Babij, DeLVe, Ivana Bago, Antonia Majacă, Cătălin Gheorghe, Marina Grzinic, h.arta, Cristian Nae, Márton Pacsika, Rena Rädle, Vladan Jeremić, Ştefan Rusu, Olga Stefan, Yelena Vorobyeva, Victor Vorobyev
Proofreader: Michael Birchall
Designer: Michel Fernández, Jeannine Herrmann, Linus Hunkeler
Part of: OnCurating
ISSN: 2673-2904