Reading Art: Writing Exhibitions and Exhibiting Literature (original) (raw)

This paper looks at the shift of curatorial practice in literary exhibitions by example of Wonderland travelling exhibition developed by the Australian Centre of Moving Images (ACMI) held at ArtScience Museum, Singapore from April to September 2019. The paper will cover three areas; firstly, the introduction of literary exhibitions and museums through several papers; secondly, an in-depth analysis of Wonderland with details of every vignette within the exhibition space; thirdly, the making of the Museum of Innocence by novelist Orhan Pamuk, where he shares in his book Innocence of Objects on the thought-process behind the successive novel and museum. The paper will conclude with the repositioning of the literary objects in museum and exhibition space, where the artefact should be seen as an object of question rather than a static exclusive piece of text, written for a particular audience.