Identity Politics and Exhibitions

Catalog description

Explores how social and political issues and aesthetics informed by identity politics have been represented, excluded or misrepresented in museums and exhibitions since the 1990s to this date. Studies theoretical approaches and exhibitions that are centered on identity politics and analyzes if institutions took the easy route of adopting a colonial essentialist identity politics, or if they have challenged traditional colonialist systems and regimes of representation and further, in some cases, may talk about curatorial activism. Finally, examines the reception of identity politics-centered exhibitions. Focuses each week on one or two case studies and specific issues related to the exhibition that provide alternative perspectives on art from the viewpoint of identity politics.