6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL
Undergraduate - Unit
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Faculty
Organisational Unit
Chief examiner(s)
Associate Professor Luke Morgan
Coordinator(s)
Unit guides
Prerequisites
12 credit points at first year level in Art History & Theory, or Theory of Art & Design, or Visual Culture, or permission from the Unit Coordinator
Prohibitions
Synopsis
Curating: Practices is intended as a complement to Curating: Histories and Theories (although the units may be taken in any order). In this unit, students are encouraged to plan one or several acts of curation that need not involve works of art. Students may curate photographs, their hobbies, pieces of art writing, their own objects or those of others. However, the emphasis will be on the final form of the exhibition and the student's ability to explain and justify this curation. These exhibitions can take place in a variety of public spaces, including online. Classes will consist of 3 contact hours in which the lecturer will work with the students, and the students along with the lecturer will hold "crit" sessions in which proposed and upcoming exhibitions are discussed and workshopped.
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
- Demonstrate practical and theoretical skills in contemporary curating;
- Put on an actual or online curated exhibition;
- Work with others in putting on such a curated exhibition;
- Evaluate the success or not of their own and others' exhibitions;
- Be ready to start curating exhibitions.
Assessment
100% in-semester assessment
Workload requirements
12 hours per week including 3 contact hours plus 9 hours of independent study, or equivalent.
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