Crisis

Crisis in collecting.
Crisis in representing ethnicity.
Crisis in criticism.
Crisis in funding.
Crisis in cultural identity.

Curator as Crisis

‘After a time, you train yourself that once the work is out of the studio, it’s up to somebody else how it gets shown and where it gets shown. You can’t spend all your time being responsible for how the work goes out in the world, so you do have to let go.’

Bruce Nauman, interview with Tony Oursler, Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman’s Words, Janet Kraynak (ed.), 2002,The MIT Press / Cambridge, MA / London, England, 2003 p. 381