Art museum curators work with works of art: foregrounding their particular qualities, putting works into telling juxtapositions, and revealing contexts. Often this curatorial work is done in dialogue with the artists themselves. But what happens when the emphasis of an exhibition is actual recorded dialogues—interviews—with living artists? When works of art are only part of the mix, rather than the focus?
A current exhibition I’ve curated, , now at the State Library of Queensland, features interviews with prominent artists and art figures, undertaken by various curators, academics and arts writers,
