This section is an archive of the Open House: A Portrait of Collecting exhibition. It provides a compilation of the public-facing materials, including the exhibition invitation, curatorial statement, images of the gallery and select objects in a PDF slide show format, program information, posters and marketing materials, and articles. It does not reproduce the artistic research components in the earlier parts of this exposition, but offers an alternative means of accessing the exhibition content that was available to an external audience.
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- Assembling a Praxis: Choreographic Thinking and Curatorial Agency
- Open House: Welcome! (Landing Page)
- Research Summary: Assembling a Praxis: Choreographic Thinking and Curatorial Agency
- Linking Paper: Open House
- Project Overview: A Gathering Together
- Seeking: Initiative Motivations and Context
- Extending and Looping: The Process
- Assembling: Participating Collectors
- Intersecting: The Exhibition
- Moving and Being Moved: Significant Objects
- Holding, Touching: Outreach and Programs
- Constructing a Memory Palace: Reflections
- Open House Direct: All in One Room
- Lauren O'Neal
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abstract
“Open House: A Portrait of Collecting,” a curatorial project held at the Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy in 2015, is part of my doctoral research on “Assembling a Praxis: Choreographic Thinking and Curatorial Agency.” The "Open House" exhibition was initially about collecting and caring for objects, a traditional function of museums. Curating with a choreographic mindset encouraged me to address other questions, including how objects and collections foster emotional connections. My initial question for the project, “How to do things with objects?” soon became “How do objects arrange spaces of relation between people and ideas?” Themes include community, memory, identity, taxonomy, preservation, accumulation, value, story, exchange, and display. [This exposition corresponds to Section Five: Arranging Spaces of Relation(s): What Can Objects Do? in the printed dissertation.]
- Lauren O'Neal - Assembling a Praxis: Choreographic Thinking and Curatorial Agency - Open House: A Portrait of Collecting - 2023
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