A Metaphysics for the Curatorial, by Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, SIAS, has been published by Routledge. This book is a philosophical investigation of the concept of curation and its significance to the field of aesthetics.
This book is a philosophical investigation of the concept of curation and its significance to the field of aesthetics. The author, as an artist-philosopher, is concerned with what contemporary curatorial work can offer to philosophical discourse. In the attempt to understand how things are curated and what the activity of curation does to curated ‘things’, the author puts forward an aesthetic and metaphysical argument for the practice, significant to the philosophical community.
A philosophically-rigorous exploration of curatorial practice, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of curatorial practice, philosophy, phenomenological aesthetics, systems studies, museum studies, multimodal arts practices, archives, exhibition-making, studies in creativity and perception. It will also be useful to general readers interested in phenomenology, metaphysics and contemporary aesthetics.
