Curating Through Signs
Semiotic Approaches to Contemporary Exhibition Practice
Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 12 November 2026
- ISBN 9781350600799
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language
- Illustrations 30 bw illus 700
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Short description:
Studies curating from a semiotic perspective, conceptualising it as a dynamic, dialogic and participatory practice.
MoreLong description:
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In this interdisciplinary book, renowned cultural theorist Mieke Bal brings a semiotic lens to curatorial practice, presenting curating and art-making as dynamic sites of meaning-making. Grounded in semiotics, the book delves into how signs and their interactions shape not only art but also the processes of curation, teaching, and engagement with culture.
Examining various case studies, including her own filmmaking alongside research by Michael Ann Holly, curatorial work by Kyoo Lee, sculptures by Doris Salcedo, urban art by migrants and refugees, and classroom interactions, the book conceptualises curating as a participatory practice. Whether in museums, classrooms, or other contexts, it demonstrates how curating can facilitate a shift from traditional, passive forms of viewing art to a more immersive, participatory form of ""seeing"".
Designed for scholars, curators and students, this book extends Bal's influential work on visual culture into the realm of curatorial practice, demonstrating how these practices can transform both the spaces in which art is presented and the way it is experienced.
Table of Contents:
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Introduction: How Semiotics Encounters Cultural Practices such as Curating, Filmmaking, and Teaching
1. Entering the European Semiosphere
2. U-topia: Optimism as an Entrance into the Future
3. Curating as Putting Art to Work, with and for Visitors
4. Some Analyses of Relevant Combinations of Works
5. The Urban Environment from Chaotic and Neglecting to Look at Foreigners, to ""Visibilisation"" with the Help of Video Art
6. Intermediality beyond Media-Essentialism and Semiotics as its Primary Tool
7. How to Make the Classroom Democratic through the Encounter between Literary and Visual Presentations
8. Cultural Analysis as a Way of Life
Conclusion
References
Glossary
Index
