Parse Journal (Oct 2021)
Exhibition Pictures: Before and After
Abstract
This visual essay presents scenes from an arc of exhibitions by the curator Paul O’Neill including the exhibition series “Coalesce” (2003-onwards), an evolving curatorial project where the re-configuration of curatorial praxis can be made apparent within the final exhibition-form beyond the curatorial as some kind of master-planning scenario. The contribution functions as a visual proposition about the dynamics of multi-layered, polyvocal, performative and accumulative exhibition-making. Although framed as one curator’s sustained practice of exhibition-making, the material presented here seeks to disclose something of the generative and co-productive energies at work in exhibition-formation as collective processes of becomings.”
