Exhibition Curatorship II

Recommended Prerequisites

Recommended English skills.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methods are:

1. Learning by practice: active pedagogies

2. Focus on problem solving.

3. Autonomous group work.

4. Autonomous answer to real situations of exhibition production.

5. Project methodology based on direct relationship with authors, guided by the project-concept based teaching model

It is also important to highlight the contact with artists and curators present at the College through the PhD in Contemporary Art and the possibility of sharing equipment and technical and workshop material from the exhibition galleries.

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 (mediation and education, editorial, programming and production) and in different areas: from the performative arts to cinema.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Curare: History and Theory of Curating II: Curating and participation; Curating and authorship; Curating and mediation; Curatorial projects: from idea to experience_between teory and practice; Curating and activist practices; Curating and acessibility: Workshop with the collaboration of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; Workshop I: Research Practices: (LAB) / Practice Based Research; Seminars and masterclasses with artists and curators; conception and development of a curatorial project, as a team, for the exhibition spaces of the Colégio das Artes (or others to be defined) or in the context of the partnership with the Contemporary Art Biennial of Coimbra Anozero.

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Luísa Rito da Silva Rodrigues

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Assiduousness: 10.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 45.0%
Research work: 45.0%

Bibliography

GROYS, Boris, Multiple authorship. IDEA arts + society, 1(26), 5-11, 2007;Obrist, H. U. (2008). A Brief History of Curating. Zurich, Dijon: JRP-Ringier & Les presses du reel;Smith, Terry. (2012). Thinking Contemporary Curating. New York, NY: Independent Curators International;Filipovic, Elena (ed.), “The Artist as Curator: an Anthology”, Koenig Books, London, 2017;BEATRICE VON BISMARCK, BENJAMIN MEYER-KRAHMER (EDS.) Hospitality: Hosting Relations in Exhibitions, Sternberg Press, 2016JENS HOFFMANN, In the Meantime Speculations on Art, Curating, and Exhibitions Sternberg Press, 2019;TRISTAN GARCIA, VINCENT NORMAND (EDS.) Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A Materialist History of Exhibitions, Sternberg Press, 2019; SOPHIA YADONG HAO (ED.) Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event? Sternberg Press, 2019;GEORGE, The Curator's Handbook Hardcover, Thames & Hudson, 2015;REILLY,  Maura, Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating, Thames & Hudson, 2018.