Editors - Nick AikensKjell CaminhaJyoti MistryMick Wilson
Over three issues of PARSE twenty-eight contributions have approached “the question of exhibition” from myriad positions and contexts. The contributions have moved between close readings of exhibitionary projects, analysis of the historical and political conditions of exhibition, to more abstracted reflections on the very notion of making public. Introducing the third and final part of this series, it is tempting to reach for conclusions–or at the very least an “answer” to the “question” of exhibition. Looking back over the three issues, however, it feels important to treat the different registers, lenses and forms through which the “question of exhibition” has been approached as the necessary prompt to refuse a totalizing summary–to acknowledge that it is precisely in asking the question of exhibition, rather than offering a single answer, that its productive, generative, often contradictory potential resides.