MeLa Publications

The MeLa editorial activity promotes the widespread use of the advancement of knowledge produced by the Project. Special policies have been agreed by the Consortium Partners in order to guarantee a high open access level to all Project products, and in particular to make publications readable and downloadable.
In this page, you can find a selection of MeLa related documents, and the articles, papers and books produced by the Consortium members within the MeLa Project, which will be available free of charge whenever possible and, in any case, at least in their executive summary.

These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License.

The MeLa*Books Series

>> Access the series of open-access digital publications which report the main findings ensued from the research activities developed by the different MeLa Research Fields.

• MeLa Research Field 04 Final Brochure: Curatorial and Artistic Research

  How are globalisation, digital media and changing patterns of migration changing our understanding and experience of the contemporary work of art, and how are contemporary artists engaging with curators to think about the condition of the contemporary through their work, its display and collection? How are curators working with new forms of artistic production, particularly non object-based practices of making, that fall outside of conventional modernist forms of display, collection and archive? These are some of the questions examined by Research Field 04, led by the Curating Contemporary Art Programme at the Royal College of Art in London, and outlined in this brochure. Reflecting on the challenges and opportunities of current curatorial and artistic practice, the research highlights areas of museum practice and organisation that are still rooted in the 20th century and urgently need reconsidering to ensure the cultural relevance and vibrancy of museums of modern and contemporary art in the 21st century.

  MeLa Research Field 04 Final Brochure: Curatorial and Artistic Research Research Field 04 - Document - July 2014 Fd04 Document more