See Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (New York: Harper Perennial, 1962), 83.
For further elaborations of my argument see also Beatrice von Bismarck, “Unfounded Exhibiting: Policies of Artistic Curating,” in The Artist as …, ed. Matthias Michalka (Vienna: Museum of Modern Art, 2007), 31–44; “Curatorial Criticality: On the Role of Freelance Curators in the Field of Contemporary Art,” in Curating Critique, ed. Marianne Eigenheer (Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2007), 62–78; “Curatorial Acting: Art, Work and Education,” in Creating Knowledge: Innovation Strategies for Designing Urban Landscapes, ed. Hille von Seggern, Julia Werner, and Lucia Grosse-Bächle (Berlin: Jovis Verlag, 2008), 166–193.
The MA program Cultures of the Curatorial as well as the conference of the same name in Leipzig (for which Vidokle’s paper was originally written) reflect the transdisciplinary and transprofessional character of the “curatorial,” including as participants, guest artists, mediators, and theoreticians from different professional, artistic, and disciplinary fields. For more information, see http://www.kdk-leipzig.de/programm.html.
Slavoj Žižek, The Big Other Doesn’t Exist, Journal of European Psychoanalysis Spring - Fall 1997
Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 1994), 109.