Postgraduate Course: Curating (ARTX11047)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | You will commission, produce, disseminate and archive art practices, locating your approach in relation to the expanded field of curatorial theory and practice.
This course supports curatorial praxis in the broadest - anthropological - sense of the curatorial and encourages you consider curating to be something that we all do. It facilitates you in generating your own organisational structures as a group; to design ways of working collectively that generate a cultural scene wherein others may join you.
We will begin by engaging with some of the conventional locations and settings wherein artworks continue to be displayed and consumed: professional institutions such as museums, galleries, festivals, biennale and art fairs. We will, equally engage with challenges to the professionalisation and institutionalisation of curating that have emerged from grassroots, artist-run and citizen-led cultures, learning from open, public, socially engaged organisations. Additionally, we will work with the ever growing body of cultural and epistemological practices that are described as the 'curatorial turn.'
You will work toward the design of a Curatorial Project. Supported by your tutors, you will work in groups and this collective activity will help shape your project. The project will take place towards the very end of Semester 2. |
| Course description |
In this course, through a series of site visits, workshops, e-tivities and production meetings you will examine a range of key developments in contemporary curatorial practice and theory. Working as a cohort, you will develop a curatorial programme by commissioning, producing, disseminating and archiving cultural practices.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This course is only available to students on the MA Contemporary Art Theory programme. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2026/27, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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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 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
This course has one assessment component:
A Portfolio that documents and clearly visualises how you researched and developed your Curatorial Project, and how you worked within your group to support this process.
Assessed against all 3 LOs, 100%. |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research: Identify, engage with and apply a range of contemporary curatorial methods, practices and theories relevant to the commissioning, producing, presenting and archiving of cultural practices.
- Practice: Devise and develop a viable curatorial project and work with your peers to shape this project.
- Analyse: Review and reflect on your curatorial practice and peer work, and locate your approach in relation to the expanded field of contemporary curatorial theory and practice.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Julie Louise Bacon
Tel: (0131 6)51 5800
Email: J.L.Bacon@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Tom Clayton
Tel:
Email: tclayto2@ed.ac.uk |
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