All Play and No Work? A ‘Ludistory’ of the Curatorial as Transitional Object at the Early ICA

Cranfield, Ben

All Play and No Work? A ‘Ludistory’ of the Curatorial as Transitional Object at the Early ICA

Resource type

Journal article

Creator (person)

Cranfield, Ben

Date published

2014

Abstract

Using the idea of play to animate fragments from the archive of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, this paper draws upon notions of ‘ludistory’ and the ‘transitional object’ to argue that play is not just the opposite of adult work, but may instead be understood as a radical act of contemporary and contingent searching.

Journal title

Tate Papers

Issue

22

Publisher

Tate

Place of publication

UK

ISSN

1753-9854

Official URL

https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/22/all-play-and-no-work-a-ludistory-of-the-curatorial-as-transitional-object-at-the-early-ica

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In Copyright

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/