Curating Lively Objects: Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines Muller Lizzie

Curating Lively Objects explores the role of things as catalysts in imagining futures beyond disciplines for museums and exhibitions. Foregrounding practice-based curatorial scholarship, the book focuses on rigorous reflexive accounts of how curating is done. Authors describe how their curatorial collaborations with diverse objects, from rocks to robots, generate new ways of organising and sharing knowledge.Bringing together leading artists and curators from Australia and Canada, this volume addresses object liveliness from a range of entwined perspectives, including new materialism, decolonial thinking, Indigenous epistemologies, environmentalism, feminist critique and digital aesthetics.

It contributes to global topics in curatorial research, including time and memory beyond and before disciplinarity; the relationship between human and non-human across