Curating Lively Objects

Lizzie Muller is a curator and researcher specialising in audience experience, reflective-curatorial practice and changing disciplinary formations in museums. She is Associate Professor at UNSW, Sydney. Caroline Seck Langill is a writer and curator who researches intersections between art and science, and the related fields of media art history. She is Professor at OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario.

List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Troublesome Objects: 1. Decolonising archives: killing art to write its history; 2. Rendezvous with the Indigenous Art Collection: how to ‘raise a flag’; 3. Troublemakers in the museum: Robots, romance and the performance of liveliness; 4. Curating data-driven information-based art: Outlive or let die; Part II: Metabolizing Objects: 5. Digesting institutional critique; 6. Curatorial care and the lively materials of biomedical art; 7. Living and semi-living artefacts on display: The monster that therefore is a living epistemic thing; 8. Troubling (natural) history: Bonnie Devine, Mark Dion, and Musée de la Chasse et la Nature; 9. Social objects, art, and agriculture; Part III: Energetic Objects: 10. Mineral materialities in contemporary art: Between intra-action, discursive magic and grief; 11. Objects, energies and curating resonance across disciplines; 12. Feminist new materialism, religion and perception; 13. Digital-physical-emotional immersion in country: Bearing witness to the Appin massacre; Index.