Schedule
Wednesday 24 September
Approaches to study of exhibitions & exhibition-making in curatorial studies.
Some reading materials that may be of interest:
- “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.
- “The Global White Cube“, Elena Filipovoc
- Inside the White Cube, Brian O’Doherty
- Here is a list of some sources that may be of interest in general: https://exhibition.school/the-riga-rous-informal-2/
Wednesday 8 October
‘Exhibition Histories’ and Other Sources in Curatorial Studies
Task for Friday 31 October
Write a short note (250 words) on one of the following topics.
A summary account of ONE example of the exhibition history of one exhibition (about 250 words, in Latvian Russian or English as you prefer)
- The “arcade” as a system of display
- The relation between “curating” and “the curatorial”
- The spatial organization and design of the Survival Kit exhibition 2025
- The spatial organization and display design of an exhibition that you have seen directly,
Put your note here: GOOGLE DOCUMENT
Some reading materials that may be of interest:
- See Afterall Exhibition Histories
- Bennet, Tony (1988) “The Exhibitionary Complex” chapter from his book The Birth of the Musuem and also an essay published in the journal New Formations
- See also: the notes from the 2020 Bucharest Biennale workshop “handfuls thrown into air and scattered over earth” here: “What is exhibition?” and also “some notes from day one and also these notes on “Exhibition Histories“.
- An interesting example of a research project on experimental practice in exhibition is Cristian Nae (ed.) (2016) In(visible) Frames. Rhetoric and exhibition practices in Romania during the period 1965-1989, an output from the research project “Pluralization of the public sphere. Art exhibitions in Romania during 1968-1989”, at the New Europe College, Bucharest, which analyses artistic production considered as unofficial, alternative, subversive or experimental in Romania from the point of view of institutional frameworks.
- The Curatorial Online Journal of curating
Wednesday 25 November
Part #1. Short presentations on work done since last meeting
- Olga on the spatial organization and display design of an exhibition (Rustem Skibin “Qalqan. Symbols of Crimean Tatars” Cupola Hall, Latvian National Museum of Art,2025)
- Anna on the spatial organization and display design of an exhibition (Sophie Calle “Neither give nor throw away”, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, 2024)
- Taļa on the spatial organization and display design of an exhibition (“Shifts” (Riga Contemporary Art Space, 2025)
- Zane on the spatial organization and display design of an exhibition (Aigars Bikše “Historical Memories of the Present”, Galerija Daugava, 2025).
- Alise on the spatial organization and display design of an exhibition (“Simbioze 2.0,” by Kefīrs Studio, Gallery “Raa”, Matīsa Street 8)
- Elīza on the relation between “curating” and “the curatorial”
- Aleksejs on the spatial organization and display design of an exhibition (“Skin in the Game”, curated by Clementine Deliss, KW, Berlin, 2023)
Part #2. Presentation on “Curating and practices of organizing”
Introducing a project “Institutionings” e-flux announcement and project website: https://institutionings.eu/
Intridcuing a research group EARN Curatorial Studies Workshop
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