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TCC: Terry Smith in Conversation with Mami Kataoka

Aug 3, 2013
2–4 pm

Tokyo, Japan
Mori Art Museum

Roppongi Hills Mori Tower (53F)
6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Japan

FREE & open to the public

This is the sixth in a series of conversations with Terry Smith and prominent curators, during which they will discuss his recent publication, Thinking Contemporary Curating and other relevant topics in curating today. Smith speaks with Mami Kataoka, Chief Curator of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

Thinking Contemporary Curating is the first book to offer an in-depth analysis of the volatile territory of international curatorial practice and the thinking—or insight—that underpins it. In five essays, renowned art historian and critic Terry Smith describes how today curators take on roles far beyond exhibition making, to include reimagining museums; writing the history of curating; creating discursive platforms and undertaking social or political activism, as well as rethinking spectatorship.

Thinking Contemporary Curating is the first in a new series titled Perspectives in Curating developed by ICI to provide sustained analysis on topics that are pressing for curators now.

Presenters
Mami Kataoka

Mami Kataoka has been the Chief Curator at the Mori Art Museum (MAM) in Tokyo since 2003

Terry Smith

Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA, is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.