Contents

Bartomeu Mari

Song  Sujong & Kim Seng Eun

James Elkins

Irit Rogoff

Beck Jee0sook

Paola Antonelli

Margriet Schavemaker

Victoria Walsh

Beatrice von Bismarck

Paul O'Neill

Simon Sheikh

Kim Seong Eun

James Voorhies

Annette Jael lehmann

Dorothee Richter

Lim Shan

Pascal Gielen

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Foreword 9

Introduction 13

Research Practice Revisited

What is Research in a Museum? 23

Becoming Research 39

Museum Research - Program, Project, Platform

What Museums Don't Research: A Survey Through One Opening 57

Museums (and Design) as the R&D of Society 77

Changing the Game: Museum Research and the Politics of Inclusivity 89

Situated Research: Curating, Technology, and the Future 107

The Curatorial and Knowledge Production

Constellations and Transpositions: On the Political Potential of Curatorial Practice 129

Exhibitions as Curatorial Readymade Forms of Escape 143

Thinking with Exhibitions, Thinking with People 159

A Critical Muscle, a Choreographic Terrain 173

I Call This Work Research 193

The Imaginary of Institutions

Mind the Gap:  Insights into Practice-Based Research on Performance Art and media between Universities and Museums 213

From (Un) learning Curating to Teaching to Transgress 231

Art as Strategy for Social Transformation and Community Pedagogy: Lessons from Institutional Critique and Critical Pedagogy 243

Between Creativity and Criminality: On the Liminal Zones of Art and Political Action 259