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ROUTLEDGE BOOK
ON CURATING IMT

We are excited to announce that Routledge, the world’s leading academic publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences, have publishing a book about IMT Gallery written by the gallery’s long-term curator Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson.

‘A unique insight into contemporary curation and management in an innovative London-based gallery’, Contemporary Exhibition-Making and Management: Curating IMT Gallery as a Hybrid Space published on the 24th May 2023 as part of a series on the Global Creative Economy edited by Aleksandar Brkić, a scholar in the field of cultural/arts management, creative entrepreneurship and cultural policy at Goldsmiths, University of London.

This is an IMT project in attitude, form, and function. [It] is not a completed project, our search for hybridity continues to play out in our practice. This book then is an intervention into a practice that is a work in progress; a process of investigation; a not doing theory properly. [A] hybridization of practices, structures, and desires, [...] IMT is nothing pure.

- MARK ROHTMAA-JACKSON
Using a critical in-depth case study exploration of IMT art gallery’s ‘successes’ and ‘failures’, Contemporary Exhibition-Making and Management illustrates and evaluates contemporary issues and challenges in curatorial initiatives and exhibition-making strategies. IMT operates as a ‘hybrid space’, combining characteristics of both the commercial gallery sector with non-profit artist-led or garage spaces while retaining affiliations to academic teaching and research. This book explores its structure, behaviour, history, partnerships and exhibition programme through a variety of disciplinary lenses, bringing together cultural, creative, economic, and pedagogical perspectives, as well as the effect of recent sociocultural impacts of the global financial crisis, and the Coronavirus pandemic.

Research-based and thought provoking, this study will be of great interest to researchers, advanced students and professionals in curatorial studies, museum and gallery management and art markets.
A cover of Mark’s book, released by Routledge in the Routledge Focus series. The image on the cover appears not dissimilar to sound spectrum analysis charts, with warm-coloured vertical visualisations of data. In its centre, a white text box displays the books title written in a modern-looking font: Contemporary Exhibition-Making and Management; Curating IMT Gallery as a Hybrid Space. Mark’s full name is visible directly beneath it.
CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION-MAKING AND MANAGEMENT: CURATING IMT GALLERY AS A HYBRID SPACE

By Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson

23 May, 2023; Routledge / Taylor & Francis

ISBN 9781032053868
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‘This is not a straight institutional history but a book that grapples with the question of what an art gallery can be in the post-conceptual, post-internet era. The book approaches IMTs horizontal and conversational forms side on from oblique angles, with 20 short chapters each grounded in a particular idea or case study. One of its real achievements is that cutting up, assembling, and smudging is something that the author has managed to find a way to textually explore as well as curatorially.’

- VICTORIA HORNE

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