Rune Gade

How can exhibitions stage encounters between art and science that not only make sense for visitors but encourage them to explore the intricate relationship between themselves and the world further? This book presents a collection of texts that explore exhibitions as a medium for new insights into connections between aesthetic and scientific knowledge production and how such insights facilitate new, more holistic understandings of entanglements between self and lifeworld. The texts all take their outset in a series of three exhibitions called Wunderkammer at Esbjerg Art Museum in Denmark from 2018 to 2022. The three main texts cover the conception, presentation, and reception of the exhibitions, respectively elaborating the curatorial process, the aesthetics of the exhibitions and the reception of the exhibitions by individual visitors. Also included is a written dialogue of a more associative nature between members of the research group of art historians who were invited to experience the exhibitions and contemplate and discuss the implications of the series of exhibitions.

This book contributes to the ongoing critical discussions of performance and its disappearance, of the ephemeral and its reproduction, of archives and mediatised recordings of liveness. The many contributions by excellent scholars and artists from a broad range of interdisciplinary fields as well as from various locations in research geographies demonstrate that despite the extensive discourse on the relationship between performance and the archive, inquiry into the productive tensions between ephemerality and permanence is by no means outdated or exhausted. New ways of understanding archives, history, and memory emerge and address theories of enactment and intervention, while concepts of performance constantly proliferate and enable a critical focus on archival residue. The contributions in Performing Archives/Archives of Performance cover philosophical inquiries as well as discussions of specific art works, performances, and archives.

Man Ray är en av 1900-talets mest betydelsefulla konstnärer som kom att spela en avgörande roll både i DADA-rörelsen och i surrealismen. I boken finns de klassiska svartvita fotografierna samt de berömda objekten, men presenterar samtidigt en bredare och djupare bild av Man Ray med måleri, film, grafik och teckning. Katalogens texter är författade av Annelie Tuveros, intendent Mjellby Konstmuseum, Jan Svenungsson, konstnär och professor på Universität für angewandte Kunst i Berlin, Sidsel Maria Söndergaard, chef på Öregaard Museum i Danmark samt Rune Gade, lektor vid Institutet för Konst-och Kulturvetenskap på Köpenhamns Universitet.