Exhibition Curatorship I

Recommended Prerequisites

Recommended English skills.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodologies will be expository (theoretical), with analysis of case studies and reference texts, and laboratory (practical), in curatorship workshops, with discussion and presentation of research carried out by students, in the analysis of situations exhibitions in loco, and in direct contact with artists and curators. The relationship with the Contemporary Art Biennial and the Coimbra Plastic Arts Circle, and the entire network of national partnerships and international contacts established by the Master in Curatorial Studies, expands and supports this methodological praxis.

Learning Outcomes

1. Know, understand and assimilate the diversity and complexity of curatorial practice, its genealogy and current contours.

2. Identify the different areas of curatorial practice, from the selection of works, installation, communication, editing or mediation.

3. Critically reflect on the historical, social and ethical circumstances that shape the creation and development of a curatorial project or program.

4. Establish conscious and translatable relations in discourse between works and authors;

5. Develop critical analysis skills on expository contexts and curatorial discourses.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Curare: History and Theory I of Curating: Genealogy and Contexts; Cabinets of curiosities (16th and 17th centuries) and the Museums of the 16th century. XVIII and XIX: collection, conservation and memory; Why Have Art Museums? The Museum of Modern Art: Alexander Doerner's Paradigm and Afred H. Barr's Model; Curating and Research: When Attitude Becomes Form: Curating as an Research Practice; “My most important work as an artist begins: the creation of exhibitions”: The Artist - Curator - from El Lissitzky to the present day; New approaches to curatorial practice: the 1960s and 1970s; The Curator as Author; The Independent Curator: Discourses and Practices; typologies and expository models; Action, context and mediation: considerations about Educational Curatorship: Educational Turn; from Paul O'Neill or Mick Wilson to Pablo Helguera;The Contemporary Art Biennial of Coimbra Anozero; Curating Workshop; Seminars and masterclasses with artists and curators.

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Luísa Rito da Silva Rodrigues

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Assiduousness: 10.0%
Project: 45.0%
Research work: 45.0%

Bibliography

REESA, Greenberg (ed.), Thinking about exhibitions. Londres: Routledge Press, 1996; MARTINON, Jean-Paul (ed.), The Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating, London: Bloomsbury, 2013;O´NEILL, Paul, WILSON, Mick (Eds) Curating and the Educational Turn, London and Amsterdam: Open Edition and De Appel, 2010;O´NEILL, Paul, SHEIKH, Simon, STEEDS, Lucy, WILSON, Mick (Eds) Curating After the Global: Roadmaps for the Present, MIT Press, 2019; MARI, Bartomeu Marí, SUJONG, Song Sujong, SEONG EUN, Kim, The Curatorial in Parallax, What Museums Do, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, 2018; BISHOP, Claire, Radical Museology: or What’s ‘Contemporary’ In Museums of Contemporary Art?, Koenig Books, London, 2013; BIRNBAUM, Daniel. & WALLENSTEIN, Sven Olov, Spacing philosophy: Lyotard and the idea of the exhibition. Berlin: Stenberg Press. 2019; BISMARCK, Beatrice Von (Ed.), Cultures of the Curatorial. Berlin: Sternberg Press,2012