Fourteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society

Abstract

The following article proposal investigates the means by which the curatorial practice can claim a resistance against the phenomenon called entropy and its effects in contemporary artwork exhibitions. Starting from the second law of thermodynamics, the proposed methodology would include the classification of variables and their equivalent in the artistic paradigm. The values would be attributed based on the textual reference of the art corpus. By this I intend to state that cultural and artistic dissipation can be enriched by measuring the entropy and enthalpy of a curatorial system. The main hypothesis would state that the rhetoric exercise of depicting an art corpus can provide valuable (and perhaps computable) knowledge about the optimal curatorial instrumentation of the exhibition. A secondary hypothesis would imply the visualization of ekphrastic textual corpus as an object of art itself (a manifestation of art – kunswtollen). The final objective I want to point out is the possibility of integrating textual narratives and iconographic analysis into the curatorial practice by ”reverse-engineering” the whole creative process of configurating an exhibition. This can be done by translating the theoretical art history into a practical approach. Therefore, the purpose of my paper is the enriching of curatorial methodologies using auxiliary resources (as physics, logic, rhetoric, and history of art), and perhaps a joint-perspective of the multiple art specters, reunited and adapted to a post-modern paradigm . My research should be read and classified as a speculative case study, based on my curatorial activity of 2018.