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Postgraduate Course: TPG Curating (ARTX11030)

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 (Postgraduate) Credits40
Home subject areaArt Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionYou will engage in the presentation and interpretation of contemporary art in professional institutionalised settings - integrating your approach to artistic research, commissioning and distribution. You will work collaboratively to curate a project for a specific venue, developing a sophisticated awareness of sites
and audiences in relation to current curatorial theories and practices. Practical workshops will facilitate project management, critical and contextual approaches.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Learn enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 13/01/2014
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 400 ( Lecture Hours 2, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 30, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 14, Fieldwork Hours 16, Online Activities 25, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 1, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 303 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Critically re-assess curatorial histories and theories in relation to emerging tendencies in curatorial practice.


2. Generate a focus for and make a constructive contribution to the group organisation of a curatorial project.


3. Work with your peers to produce, manage and distribute a curatorial project for critical scrutiny
Assessment Information
Portfolio
Seminar Participation
Exhibition
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Micchelli, Thomas. On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators, Distributed Art Publishers; 2010.
Zeiske, Claudia and Sacramento, Nuno. ARTocracy, Jovis, 2011.
Kouris and Rand, Cautionary Tales: Critical Curating, Apexart, 2007.
Marincola, Paula. What Makes a Great Exhibition?,Reaktion, 2007.
Wilson, Mick, Curating and the Educational Turn, Open Editions/De Appel Arts Centre, 2010.
Abbing, Hans. 'Why are artists poor?: The Exceptional Economy of the Arts, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2002.
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.
Buskirk, Martha. 'The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art', MIT, 2005.
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsTheory Pathway: Curating Collecting Exhibitions Museology Taxonomy Cultural Geography Art History Vi
Contacts
Course organiserDr Neil Mulholland
Tel: (0131 6)51 5881
Email: n.mulholland@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Susan Mitchell
Tel: (0131 6)51 5743
Email: Susan.Mitchell@ed.ac.uk
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