Curatorial Challenges and Experiments

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Curatorial choices in the face of social, environmental and inclusivity imperatives
• A range of methods for responding to current curatorial challenges

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Articulate the relationship between conceptual and practical issues
• Creatively solve curatorial problems

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Manage effective relationships within a team and with third parties
• Exercise independent judgements in practical contexts
• Plan, manage and deliver a project

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Undertake practical presentation of exhibits

Three (2-3 week long) workshops led by academics and researchers within WSA and/or invited external contacts from the curatorial field will explore specific curatorial prompts, situations through problem-based learning.

The syllabus will be responsive to time-based opportunities, and where possible contemporaneous projects which exist beyond the university, for example, Tate Exchange, City of Culture, Hampshire Cultural Trust current projects.

Work will be undertaken collaboratively in small set groups which will rotate to give experience of working with others with a variety of backgrounds and specialisms, and emulates professional teamworking situations which demand both collaboration and individual initiative and accountability. Practical outcomes will be student-led, with conceptual and practical guidance from staff and professionals in the field.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• Three (2-3 week long) workshops, combining theoretical discussion, examination of exemplars, practical exercises
• Seminar discussion
• Discussion of modes of presentation; critique of exemplars
• Presentations
• Experience of display for broad audience
• Guided reflective dialogue
• Tutorials, including for dissertation proposal

Learning methods include:

• Peer group learning
• Reflective writing
• Visits to collections and exhibitions
• Project proposal writing
• Reflection on feedback
• Workshop-based learning
• Independent study of module materials

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Kate Gray, Sarah Mossop, Emily Pethick, Marijke Steedman, (2012, pp. 103 – 120). Why Do Galleries Work Beyond The Site of The Institution?. London:: The Whitechapel Gallery,.

Graham, Janna, McQuay, Marie-Anne, Steedman, Marijke, Vicars, Natasha,“Inherent Tensions” in Marijke Steedman (ed.), (2012, pp. 197 – 219). Gallery as Community: Art, Education, Politics,. London:: The Whitechapel Gallery,.

Martinon, Jean-Paul (ed.), (2013). The Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating,. London and New York:: Bloomsbury,.

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

Fowle, Kate in O’Neill, Paul and Wilson, Mick (eds.), Open Editions, (2014, pp. 153 – 172). “Action Research: Generative Curatorial Practices”,. London:: Curating Research,.

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