Exhibitionary practices at the intersection of academic research and public display (second expanded iteration)

Abstract

This essay explores the relationship between research and curatorial practice, focusing on exhibition-making practices and the understanding of exhibition as not simply the display of objects of research but as the site of research, and consequently as a form of critical inquiry and knowledge production in itself. Taking ERL as a case in point, the essay extends the discussion to consider the specificity of the context within which such practices take place