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
Wednesday 18 February
Curatorial Research: Project Types and Strategies
- Exhibition as research process
- Artist’s publication as research process
- Research project about curatorial and commissioning practices that uses a curatorial process “co-production”
- Some wider reflections about “production” and “research”
- A task for March 4 session
Wednesday 4 March
We being with a review of the PhD examples that you found online.
And then we look at the questions of genre and genre analysis in the organization of exhibitions, with two key examples (i) the blockbuster and (ii) the archive-in-display.
Sharing examples of Archival Exhibition
Wednesday 15 April
We begin with looking at the examples of archival exhibition that you share.
Then we continue the discussion of “genre” and exhibition genres
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