Exhibition Curatorship II

Recommended Prerequisites

Recommended knowledge of English.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methods are:
1. Learning by practice.
2. Focus on problem solving.
3. Autonomous group work.
4. Autonomous answer to real situations of exhibition production.

Learning Outcomes

1. To develop autonomous points of view on curatorial practices;
2. To inform about the different complexities of the various curatorial working fields (curating collections, working in museums, working in alternative spaces, working in art galleries).
3. To put the student on the situation of making effective choices;
The following skills are developed:
1. Being able to develop an autonomous and authorial curatorial project;
2. To be able to negociate and work in team;
3. To be able to adapt to different typologies of curatorial work (educational work, editorial and exhibitions).

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The creation of a new role: the independent curator.
2. Different aspects of curatorial practice:
curating collections;
curating and editing;
curating in the museum;
curating and biennials;
Themes:
1. Curating between interpretation and experience.
2. Curatorial participative practices.

Practicum

Practicum is dedicated to the development of the activities of the Curatorial Lab in which the students develop 3 projects with artists, from the concept to the implementation in the spaces of the Curatorial Lab in Colégio das Artes.

Head Lecturer(s)

Delfim José Gomes Ferreira Sardo

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 20.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 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.