Session 1
Wednesday 11th September on site
Thinking about exhibitions and exhibition histories
Approaches to study of exhibitions & exhibition-making in curatorial studies.
In the session I referenced Frederick Jacob Kiesler (September 22, 1890 – December 27, 1965, an Austrian-American architect, exhibition designer, theoretician, theater designer, artist and sculptor, and his book Contemporary Art Applied to the Store and Its Display, New York: Brentano, 1930. I also mentioned the Department Store as a space of “showing stuff”, a space of display and “exhibiting”.
Advance reading:
- “exhibition as genre, poetic and apparatus“
- “what—after all is said and done—is exhibition?“
- “exhibition histories: some apprehensions and anticipations“
- “Introduction” to Part 1 of Wilson,M., Aikens,N., Mistry, J. & Caminha,K. (eds.) “On the Question of Exhibition” PARSE Journal Vol. 13, Parts 1.
Here is a list of some sources that may be of interest in general: https://exhibition.school/the-riga-rous-informal-2/
Session 2
Wednesday 9 October on site
Exhibition-studies and curating beyond exhibition-making
Curating and ‘the curatorial’
Please read this article in advance of the class: Felix Vogel “Notes on exhibition history in curatorial discourse“
If you are interested in the discussion of screens and online culture, you might like to read this essay: Notes “Toward the Question of Exhibition Online“
Session 3
Wednesday 29 January 2025 (replacing Wednesday 13 November)
Curating as organizing practice
Institutions, platforms and programmes
For this session you are asked to do two things:
(i) read the slides from the previous two sessions, and bring questions to the class room meeting about the thing that you want to clarify
(ii) bring an example of an “exhibition” that you would like to learn more about.
Session 4
Wednesday 12 February 2025
Curating as a research practice #1
during this session we will explore what it means to do research, and what it means to do research by curatorial practice
Session 5
Wednesday 12 March 2025
Curating as a research practice #2
In this session we will be joined online by colleagues from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts , Budapest (Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem, HUFA), the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie, ASP, the University of the Arts, Bremen (Hochschule für Künste Bremen, HfK), Nuova Accademia Di Bella Art , Milan (NABA), and guest researchers from other institutions.
We will also have a special guest lecture online from Dr. Naomi Rincón-Gallardo: Visual artist living and working between Mexico City and Oaxaca. From a decolonial-cuir perspective, her research-driven critical-mythical dreamlike worldmakings address the creation of counter-worlds in neocolonial settings. In her work she integrates her interests in theater games, popular music, Mesoamerican cosmologies, speculative fiction, vernacular festivities and crafts, decolonial feminisms and queer of color critique. She completed the PhD in Practice Program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Recent shows and performative screenings include: Tzitzimime Trilogy, la Casa Encendida Madrid (2023). 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2022). 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021). A Trilogy of Caves, 2020 (Solo Show) Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca. May your thunder break the sky, 2020 (Solo Show) Kunstraum Innsbruck, 11 Berlin Biennale, 2020. Heavy Blood, 2019, (Solo Show) Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City. En Cuatro Patas, 2018, (Performative Screening) Pacific Standard Time. L.A.L.A. The Broad Museum, Los Ángeles. FEMSA Biennial. We have Never beenContemporary, 2018, Zacatecas. The Formaldehyde Trip, 2017 (Performative screening) Performance in Progress. SF MOMA, San Francisco CA.
For more about this guest presentation and its context “Researching Imaginaries” go here.
Session 6
Wednesday tbc 2025
How to keep informed about changes in the field of curating
How to navigate the changing terms of curatorial and artistic discourse
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