Curatorial Histories & Contexts

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Historical precedent for curatorial practice
• Critical and theoretical contexts for curatorial practice
• Changing social and economic factors which bear upon curatorial practice

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Source appropriate evidence to support an understanding of curatorial contexts
• Analyse historical, theoretical and other contexts for curatorial practice

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Structure information coherently
• Produce a written output in compliance with academic standards
• Apply theory to practical outcomes

The content of modules is reviewed from year to year to ensure currency: indicative content for this module will include:

• An overview of, and a context for, curatorial and visual cultural theory.
• History of exhibitions/displays
• Contemporary theories of curatorial practice
• Contemporary debates around curatorial practice
• International perspectives and priorities
• Learning and Interpretation
• Audiences and Publics
• Cultural politics & critique
• Institutional critique
• The role of the digital

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• lectures
• Seminar discussion
• Peer group learning
• Presentations
• Guided field trip to see presentation/exhibition
• Guided reflective dialogue

Learning methods include:

• Library skills hub
• Peer discussion
• Independent study of module materials

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Bourriaud, Nicolas (2009). Alternmodern: Tate Triennial.. London:: Tate Publishing.

Hoffmann, Jens, (2013). Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating,. Mousse Publishing,.

Graham, Beryl and Sarah Cook, (2010). Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media,. London and Cambridge,: MA: Leonardo Books – The MIT Press,.

Belting, Hans, Andrea Buddensieg, and Peter Weibel (eds.), (2013). The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds,. Karlsruhe, Germany and London and Cambridge,: MA: ZKM – Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and The MIT Press,.

Marincola, Paula (ed.), (2007). What Makes a Great Exhibition?. London and Philadelphia:: University of the Arts,.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External