James Voorhies

Prelude
The Research Exhibition 1
The Curatorial 6
Knowledge Production and Contemporary Art 10
Case Studies 15
Logic of the Curatorial 16
Reading through Adorno 18

Section 1
dOCUMENTA (13)
A State of Mind 23
Learning from documenta 26
The Rise of the Contemporary Exhibition 28
Aesthetic Regimes of Art 33
A Kind of Fugitive Art 37
Artistic Research 45
The Follower: Later and Somewhere Else 49
Ideological Fissures 52
Logic of Disintegration 54

Interlude
The Frankfurt School Contemporary 59
Autonomy According to Adorno 63
What Role Can Art Play? 69

Section 2
DOCUMENTA11
Curatorial Counterinsurgency 75
The Documenta11 Complexity 82
The Documenta11 Books 84
Curating Discourse 88
The Document of Maria Eichhorn Public Limited Company 92
The Prosthesis of Exhibition and the Power of the Curatorial 98

Section 3
CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART SINGAPORE
Knowledge Economies 103
The Institution Object 108
The Making of an Institution 112
Learning to Unlearn 115

Exact Imagination 120

Acknowledgments 131
Notes 133