Solicited: Proposals - Esther Choi - The Interpretation

The Interpretation

Esther Choi

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The Interpretation. Illustration: Andreas Samuelsson/Agent Molly & Co.

Solicited: Proposals
October 2021










Notes
1

Bruce W. Ferguson, “Exhibition Rhetorics: Material Speech and Utter Sense,” in Thinking About Exhibitions. Edited by Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson, Sandy Nairne, 179 (London: Routledge, 1996).

2

See Joel Snyder, “Res Ipsa Loquitur,” in Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science, 195–221, ed. Lorainne Daston (New York: Zone Books, 2008).

3

Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation,” in Against Interpretation and Other Essays (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1961), 5.

4

Sontag, “Against Interpretation,” 5.

5

Roland Barthes, “Preface to the 1957 edition,” in Mythologies, trans. Siân Reynolds (London: Vintage, 2009), xix–xx.

6

For more on the problems posed by representation in architecture exhibitions, see Carson Chan, “Exhibiting Architecture: Show, Don’t Tell,” Domus (Sept. 17, 2010), .

7

Sylvia Lavin, “Too Much Information,” Artforum, Vol. 53, No. 1 (Sept. 2014), .

8

See Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, “Conceptual Art 1962-1969: From the Aesthetic of Administration to the Critique of Institutions,” October, vol. 55 (Winter 1990): 105–43; and Alexander Alberro, Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003).

9

See, for instance, my review of the exhibition “The Other Architect” in “Insides and Outsides: The Other Architect,” Journal for Architectural Education (2017), .