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Postgraduate Course: Curating (ARTX11020)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (n/a) Credits20
Home subject areaArt Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionIndicative 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, Site Visits, Guest Speakers, moodle
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements Pre-requisites


Co-requisites


Prohibited combinations
CV110004 Curating & Exhibition
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Investigate and assess a range of exhibition and display practices and give a professional presentation critically evaluating contemporary curatorial 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. Demonstrate an engagement with theories of display and cultural value and critically evaluate the key strategies of current curatorial practice.
Assessment Information
Assessment plan

The report can relate to a short self-directed curatorial project or to a relevant body of curatorial history, theory or practice.
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
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 16 hours
Directed study 0 hours
Self-directed study 184 hours
Total 200 hours
KeywordsNot entered
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