Exhibition Curatorship I

Recommended Prerequisites

Adviced Knowledge of English.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methods are:
1. Theoretical analyses of the different exhibition models, with the study of reference texts.
2. Development of interview techniques with artists during studio visits.
3. Analyses of exhibition situations in loco.
4. Study and planning of curatorial projects, both in terms of work installation, as in editorial terms.

Learning Outcomes

1. Understanding the diversity and complexity of the curatorial practices;
2. To be familiar with the exhibition studies field of knowledge;
3. To know how to integrate the diferente fields of curatorial practice (choosing, installing, editing);
From the point of view of the skills that are targeted:
1. To develop the ability to establish consistent links between works of art and authors that can be expressed in an informed and clear discourse;
2. To build analytical capacity regarding the exhibition context

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. What is curating?
2. The historical process of curating: the birth of the museum in the 18th century.
3. The museum of modern art: Alexander Doerner’s model.
4. The museum of modern art: Alfred H.’s model. The structure of the departmental museum.
5. The rise of curatorial discourses in the 1960’s.
6. The distinctive character of curatorial mediation.

Themes:
1. Curating and critical thinking: the problem of judgment production; choosing and excluding.
2. The relation between artist and curator: negotiation, mediation, questioning.

Practicum
1. Curatorial methodologies: observation, interview, studio visit.
2. Analyses of exhibition spaces: museum spaces, alternative spaces.
Exhibition visits and critic.

Head Lecturer(s)

Delfim José Gomes Ferreira Sardo

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 20.0%
Project: 80.0%

Bibliography

1. Greenberg, Reesa ed al. (ed.) (1996). Thinking about exhibitions. Londres: Routledge.
2. Guelton, Bernard (1998). L’exposition: Interpretation et reinterpretation. Paris: L’Harmattan.
3. Crane, Susan A (2000). Museums and Memory. S. Francisco: Stanford University Press.
4. O’Neill, Paul (Ed.), (2007). Curating Subjects. Amsterdam: De Appel.
5. Obrist, Hans Ulrich (2008). A Brief History of Curating. Paris: Documents, Les Presses du Réel.
6. Graham, Bill, Cook, Sarah (2010). Rethinking Curating. Cambridge Mass: MIT Press.
7. O'Neill, Paul (2012).  The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Cultures. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
8. Smith, Terry (2012). Thinking Contemporary Curating. New York: ICI.
9. Bezzola, Tobia, Kurzmeyer, Roman (ed.) (2007). Harald Szeeman with by through because towards, Zurich  and New York:  Edition Voldemeer and Springer.