The Next Documenta Should be Curated by an Artist, according to some at e-flux, which is offering opinions on the subject by various artists. I had a look at Martha Rosler's:
Right now there is a protracted tussle within the art world over a basically conservative aestheticism, a refurbishment of Kant, and the more conceptual-rationalist work from the latter part of the past century. So far, this aestheticism is less hysterical and precious than the other fin de siècle aestheticism, but its intentions are just as revanchist, and pernicious. Documenta needs to evade this temptation; the last two curators did a mostly excellent job of this, but this job is obviously too big for one person, and there are always sub-curators, assigned to sub-regions, I suppose. This means regional factionalism and favoritism, inevitably subverting the grand design with outrageously extraneous inclusions.
It's a big hairy job.
Posted by Heather at October 26, 2003 09:28 PM
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