What is the Future of Exhibition Histories? Or, Toward Art in Terms of Its Becoming-Public

Lucy Steeds contributed the chapter ‘What is the Future of Exhibition Histories? Or, Toward Art in Terms of Its Becoming-Public’ to “The Curatorial Conundrum” , which she also co-edited. “The Curatorial Conundrum” brings together responses to three key questions in relation to art, exhibitions, and their current cultural conditions: What to Study?, What to Research?, and What to Practice? Through these sub-questions, it gathers a wide range of international contributors in an attempt to respond to one fundamental overarching question: given that curating has come to occupy a central critical, political, and practical space within the global ‘contemporary', how will its unfolding futures be imagined and actualized, and what is to be done? Contributors are: Nancy Adajania, Mélanie Bouteloup, Nikita Yingqian Cai, Luis Camnitzer, Eddie Chambers, Zasha Cerizza Colah, Galit Eilat, Liam Gillick, Vladimir Jerić, Koyo Kouoh, Miguel A. López, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul O’Neill, Tobias Ostrander, João Ribas, Sarah Rifky, Sumesh Sharma, Simon Sheikh, Lucy Steeds, Jeannine Tang, David Teh, Jelena Vesić, What, How & for Whom/WHW, Mick Wilson, and Vivian Ziherl. Lucy also co-authored (with fellow editors Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson) the book's introduction. This book was launched with a discussion between Lucy Steeds and Paul O’Neill at The Showroom in London, 21 July 2016 (http://afterall.org/events/the-curatorial-conundrum-with-paulo-neill-and-lucy-steeds)