• To introduce models and strategies for curatorial practice
• To identify and examine key issues within contemporary curatorial practice and project management within the visual arts

Objectives

By the end of the module, the student should have

• Conducted research on specified topics from the course syllabus and demonstrated ability to access appropriate sources and engage with them critically
• Structured research material cohesively, demonstrating an understanding of relevant concepts, issues and debates
• Given a well-planned, well organised seminar paper, demonstrating reflectivity, the ability to problematise and form critical evaluations
• Engaged in group discussion and shown evidence of contextual knowledge
• Developed subject knowledge and demonstrated understanding of surrounding discourse

Indicative Content

• Introduction to curatorial practice and exhibition making
• Museum and gallery as context and framework
• Development of the artist-run space
• Rise of the artist/ curator and alternative curatorial/ art practice
• Curatorial responses to site, history and location – outside the gallery
• Project development for social inclusion - audience
• Curating for new media and technologies
• Approaches to craft curation – new definitions
• Case Study: In the Midst of Things
• Gallery visits

Indicative Reading List

Artangel, Off Limits: 40 Artangel Projects, London: Merrell, 2000
BANK, Bank. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2001.
Bronson AA and Gale, Peggy, eds. Museums by Artists. Toronto: Art Metropole, 1983.
Burgess, John, Coventry, Keith et al, eds. City Racing: The Life and Times of an Artist-run Gallery. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2002.
Cooke, Lynne and Wollen, Peter, eds. Visual Display: Culture Beyond Appearances. Seattle: Bay Press, 1995
Cooke, Sarah, Graham, Beryl and Martin, Sarah, eds. Curating New Media. Newcastle: BALTIC, 2002.
Crafts Council Gallery. Tectonic, London, 2000. Exhibtion catalogue.
Crafts Council Gallery. Close, London, 2000. Exhibtion catalogue.
Dunlop, Ian. The Shock of the New: Seven Historic Exhibitions of Modern Art. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972
Greenberg, Reesa, Ferguson, Bruce and Nairne, Sandy, eds. Thinking about Exhibitions. London and New York: Routledge, 1996
Harding, Anna, ed. Curating the Contemporary Art Museum and Beyond. London: Academy Editions, 1997 (Art and Design Series, no. 52)
Hiller, Susan and Martin, Sarah, eds. The Producers: Contemporary Curators in Conversation. BALTIC/ University of Newcastle, 2000.
Hiller, Susan and Martin, Sarah, eds. The Producers 2: Contemporary Curators in Conversation. BALTIC/ University of Newcastle, 2001.
Hiller, Susan and Martin, Sarah, eds. The Producers 3: Contemporary Curators in Conversation. BALTIC/ University of Newcastle, 2001.
Hiller, Susan and Martin, Sarah, eds. The Producers 4: Contemporary Curators in Conversation. BALTIC/ University of Newcastle, 2002.
Martin, Sarah and Nordgren, Sune, eds. Artists at Work. Newcastle: BALTIC, 2001.
McCorquodale, Duncan, Siderfin, Naomi and Stallabrass, Julian, eds. Occupational Hazard. London: Black Dog Publishing, 1998.
Morgan, Stuart, ed. Locus + 1993-1996. Newcastle: Locus +, 1996.
Prince, N. and Wade, G. In The Midst of Things, 2000
Schade, Sigrid, ed. Curating Degree Zero. Nuremberg: Verlag fur moderne Kunst, 1999.
Stallabrass, Julian. High Art Lite. London: Verso, 1999.
Staniszewski, Mary Anne. Believing is Seeing: Creating the culture Art. London: Penguin, 1995.
Staniszewski, Mary Anne. The Power of Display. Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 1998.
Transmission Gallery. Transmission-Committee for the Visual Arts. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2002.
Wade, Gavin, ed. Curating in the 21st Century. The New Art Gallery Walsall/ University of Wolverhampton, 2000.
Wade, Gavin et al. Artist + Curator =. AN Magazine, April 2000. pp. 10-14.