Haraldseth, Geir — Great! I'Ve Witten Something Stupid. .

Oslo, Torpedo Press, 2012. Softcover. A small purple softcover book with white text on a black spine. Pages: (4), 5-128. Contains several black-and-white images. "The independent curator might be independent in name only, as there are always certain dependencies on funding, cohesion, sense and hierarchies. If you want to work in this business, you have to play by the rules. If you are to eat you have to stay in line. The selected exhibitions and essays collected in this publication offer a few possible answers to whether there's a potential agency located in the oft-discussed title of independent curator. 'Great! I've written something stupid ..' reflects Haraldseth's efforts to carve out a space that is critical to contemporary art and its more. In doing so, he demonstrates how vital it can be to assume the role of an independent curator in an art world bound by its dependency on patronage, opinion, and shared acceptance of unspoken rules of behavior. Through the guise of an independent curator, Haraldseth's practice illuminates new ways to perceive artists and curatorial practice, and also to understand the history, problems and potential of contemporary art as a field. VG+ .