Exhibition Histories and Interpretative Walking Tours Reading Group
Reading Group – Claudia Di Tosto
- 28 November 2024
- 3:00 – 4:00 pm
- This Reading Group aims to provide a space for discussion and reflection about the role of exhibitions within the production of British art.
- Online
This event will focus on exploring how installation views can be used to develop an interpretative (written) walking tour of an exhibition, and what we can learn from this approach to exhibition histories. The text by Lucy Steeds effectively accompanies the reader through the rooms of the Hayward Gallery where The Other Story was held in 1989. The content of the reading is enhanced by the website that was created to collect new strands of research on the show. The text by Remi Parcollet delves into the use of installation views as a primary source for exhibition histories.
Readings:
Steeds, Lucy, “Retelling ‘The Other Story’ – or What Now?”, Afterall: Exhibition Histories, 2018. Online here.
‘The Other Story', 1989. A website by Afterall: https://theotherstory.afterall.org/
Additional Readings:
Remi Parcollet, “(Re)Producing the Exhibition, (Re)Thinking Art History. On the Visual Archives of Primary Structures”, trans. by Simon Pleasance, (Re)produire l’exposition, (re)penser l’histoire de l’art. Autour des archives visuelles de Primary Structures, 46, 2016. Online here.
Image credit: The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain, Hayward Gallery, 1989-1990, installation photograph. Digital image courtesy of Rasheed Araeen and Asia Art Archive.
About the speaker
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Claudia Di Tosto is a PhD candidate in history of art at the University of Warwick in collaboration with the Paul Mellon Centre. She is researching the history of the British Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale through the lenses of global and national art histories, exhibition history and postcolonial theory to explore the Pavilion as a site of national self-definition and redefinition. Prior to starting the PhD, she worked for various institutions such as: IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, Ireland); V&A (London, UK); Vatican Museums – Modern and Contemporary Art Department; and MAXXI – National Museum of 21st-Century Arts (Rome, Italy). Most recently, she was the co-convenor of the Doctoral Researchers Network at the Paul Mellon Centre for the academic year 2022/23 and held a position as associate lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
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