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Postgraduate Course: TPG Curatorial Theory (ARTX11032)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryYou will engage with the presentation and interpretation of contemporary art in professional institutionalised settings - integrating your approach to studio and curatorial practice.
Course description You will plan, promote, contexualise, document and reflect critically upon your own exhibitionary Project for a specific venue. You will assess your installation in relation to current curatorial theories and practices.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 2, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 15, Online Activities 12, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 166 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Documentation
Examination (Verbal)
Essay
Feedback Formative feedback on group presentations in seminars.

Formative feedback on essay plans / evidence of research.

Summative feedback on essay.
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Working in groups communicate your critical analysis of new problems and issues within contemporary curating and exhibition practices.
  2. Visually and verbally justify your approach to the distribution and consumption of your work.
  3. Write a critical study of two or more curatorial and exhibition practices appropriate to your work.
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.
WADE, GAVIN, Curating in the 21st Century,Wolverhampton, 2000.
Greenberg, Reesa. Thinking about Exhibitions. Routledge, London, 1996.
Braathen, Martin. The Price of Everything: Perspectives on the Art Market, Yale University Press, 2008.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsStudio Pathway: Curating,Installation,Exhibiting,Museology,Taxonomy,Cultural Georgraphy
Contacts
Course organiserMr John Beagles
Tel: (0131 6)51 5909
Email: j.beagles@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Jennifer Watson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5744
Email: Jennifer.A.Watson@ed.ac.uk
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