Kitty Scott

Pablo Larios

Kum Lum

An Te Liu

Francesco Manacorda

Cuauhtémoc Medina

Barbara Fischer

Teresa Gleadowe

Lourdes Morales

Raising Frankenstein presents compelling new writing that explores the education and formation of curators. This book offers an overview of recent thinking on curatorial pedagogy, designed to elucidate, define and build on current debates surrounding this subject. The questions posed here are timely and provocative. The five essays provide a set of cogent inquiries and analyses for all those who concern themselves today with the presentation and theorization of contemporary art. At its heart lies the single question, "Where does the curatorial profession reside?" Raising Frankenstein is developed from the conference Trade Secrets: Education / Collection / History, organised by the Banff International Curatorial Institute in collaboration with Teresa Gleadowe, and held at The Banff Centre, November 12 - 14, 2008.

Curatorial Education and Its Discontents

Raising Frankenstein

Janet Cardiff

Artangel (London, England)

This book documents Janet Cardiff's 1999 audio project, The Missing voice (Case Study B), and includes the full audio CD as well as images from this exploration of London's inner city. Part urban guide, part fiction, part film noir, her audio walk entwines the listener in a narrative that shifts through time and space. Intimate, even conspirational, Cardiff has created a psychologically absorbing experience for an audience of one at a time. You find yourself transported back in time. What was that sound? Who is speaking to you? Where does reality end, and what's imagined begin? Also included is an extended essay analyzing the artist's career to date. Born in 1957, in Brussels, Canada, Cardiff works and lives in Alberta and has shown internationally in, among others, London, New York, Berlin, and Vienna. Her work has been included in significant group exhibitions, notably Skulptur Projekte Munster, 1997; Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the 1999 Carnegie International; and the Museum as Muse at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

The Missing Voice : (case Study B)

Scott Watson

Power Plant (Art gallery)

Wayne Baerwaldt

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

Daniel Richter

Since moving from abstraction to quasi-surrealism over the last five years, Berlin-based painter Daniel Richter has solidified his reputation for hardhitting work with a deep intellectual foundation. Incorporating found images like reproductions of artworks, book covers, film stills, newspaper clippings, comics and record album covers into his works, Richter explores politics, popular culture, the impact of violence, global threats. An important selection of recent paintings.

Pink Flag, White Horse

Kitty Scott

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