Curatorial Conceptions and Typologies /op 2+1
Teacher: Angel Judit
Aims:
The course provides knowledge and understanding of concepts of art mediation in the forms of exhibitions, curatorial projects, advanced knowledge of the culture of the curatorial, strategies of the presentation and communication of artworks / art projects to a specific audience. Students will be capable of elaborating the concept and plan of exhibitions, curatorial project, of understanding specific needs related to the presentation and communication of artworks, of using the medium of the exhibition, of communicating specific messages to the audience, of using the exhibition / discursive formats to produce knowledge and empower diverse categories of people
Topics:
1. The emergence of the figure of the curator from the 1960s to the present
2. Basic elements of the curatorial concept: motivation, purpose, message, format, context, audience
3. The exhibition as a means of writing art history
4. Exhibition as a means of discursive intervention
5. The emergence of the global curatorial discourse (biennials, mega-exhibitions)
6. Exhibition experiments. The Case of the New Institutionalism (1995 - 2005)
7. Convergence of artistic and curatorial practice since the 1990s /
8. Exhibition and educational turn
9. Socially engaged curatorial practices
10. Other curatorial formats: performance, film, intervention, presentation, discussion, workshop, publication
11. Eco-feminist principles in curatorial conception and practice
12. Place / context of the curatorial approach
13. Design and production of the public
14. Summative discussions, evaluation