Postgraduate Course: Curating & Exhibition (ARTX11019)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (n/a) |
Credits | 40 |
| Home subject area | Art |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
This module examines the presentation and interpretation of visual and material culture in professional institutionalised settings, critically examining the social and political assumptions behind Western cultures of accumulation, attribution and display. Lectures will draw on a number of academic disciplines, among them taxonomy, geography, art history, literary criticism, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, and the natural sciences. This module will also explore curating without walls.
Aims of course
1 To enhance your understanding of how the meanings of objects and artworks are generated by exhibition and display contexts and skills.
2 To introduce you to the history of exhibitionary practices, to define a variety of critical approaches to this history and enable you to become familiar with some working practices within museums, galleries and other institutions of visual and material culture.
3 To introduce you to the study of exhibitionary spaces and develop your historical, critical and practical knowledge of their means of signification.
Mode of delivery
Lectures, Seminars, Workshops, Site Visits, Guest Speakers, e-learning, project management |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Prohibited combinations
CV110012 Curating |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: 150 |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Identify and apply a range of exhibition and display practices through the group organisation of an exhibition (and related events) and give a professional presentation critically evaluating your own exhibitionary practices within a social, historical, political and economic context
2. Apply ideas, techniques and theories drawn from intensive research to enhance your own critical and interpretative skills.
3. Critically and practically demonstrate a curatorial engagement with issues of cultural value and critically evaluate the key strategies of your curatorial practice in the form of a report and portfolio. |
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
Min grades required for entry to MFA Visual Culture CCC Min grades required for MA with Distinction AAC |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
WADE, GAVIN, Curating in the 21st Century, Wolverhampton, 2000. O'DOHERTY, BRIAN & MCEVILLEY Inside the White Cube, University of California Press, 1999. GREENBERG, REESA. Thinking about Exhibitions. Routledge, London, 1996. MOORE, KEVIN. Museums and Popular Culture, Leicester University Press, 1997. ALTSHULER, BRUCE. Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art Princeton University Press, 2005. ANDRIESSE, PAUL. Art Gallery Exhibiting: The Gallery as a Vehicle for Art. Inmerc BV, 1996. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 13 hours
Directed study 80 hours
Self-directed study 307 hours
Total 400 hours |
| Keywords | CURATING, COLLECTING, EXHIBITIONS, MUSEOLOGY, TAXONOMY, MEDICAL HISTORY, CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY, ART HIS |
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