ABSTRACT
Like making, curatorial work occurs in many overlapping contexts: technical, artistic and institutional, with each context introducing new concerns and constraints on possible curatorial methods and audience engagement. As a grounded practice with material-intellectual engagement, a framework such as making offers new ways of thinking about curatorial practice. In this chapter, O’Murchú draws upon the practice of making to detail how an exhibition can be thought of as a prototype and the externalisation of ‘thinking processes’ embedded in curatorial work. She discusses the practical and material dimensions of curating a touring exhibition at Rua Red Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, Espace Multimedia Ganter in France and Lūznava Manor in Latvia that linked reflection on the themes of the artistic work to the subject of the exhibition and the technical making that displayed the work. In doing so, she argues for an understanding of curating as a form of critical making that entails a practice-based engagement with both pragmatic and theoretical issues.
