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FaVU-4CiSTAcad. year: 2023/2024
The overview course Curating in a Shifting Terrain introduces students to the basic frameworks,formats, and concepts of the curatorial discipline. It will spotlight the emergence and transformations of the curatorial profession and the role of the curator (with an emphasis on the 20th and 21st centuries) in both global and local contexts. The course will look at different platforms, modes and formats of curatorial practice, and critically position them within the broader frameworks of the artworld and, more broadly, contemporary culture. We will also consider art historical, philosophical and academic reflections on curating, as well as the critiques that have accompanied the proliferation of curating in recent decades.
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Teaching takes place in the classrooms of the FFA BUT in the hours determined by the schedule. Attendance is compulsory (3 unexcused absences allowed). Higher number of absences can be compensated by submitting an alternative assignment after agreement with the teachers.
Aims
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the basic frameworks, formats and concepts of the curatorial discipline, as well as its development (with an emphasis on the 20th and 21st centuries).
Upon completion of the course, students will have an overview of the history, major figures and key concepts of curating. The students will understand the development and challenges of the curatorial profession in both domestic and global contexts. They will view curating in a critical and nuanced way as a practical discipline, but will have a solid orientation in its conceptualizations and theoretical reflections.
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branch ZST , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optionalbranch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optionalbranch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optionalbranch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optionalbranch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optionalbranch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optionalbranch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optionalbranch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optionalbranch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optionalbranch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optionalbranch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, electivebranch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optionalbranch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, electivebranch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optionalbranch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
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1. What are we talking about when we talk about curating? Curating as a discipline. Histories ofexhibition as a format, exhibition studies, curatorial histories.
2. The frameworks and institutions of contemporary curating. Institutional curating and theircritique. Collection-based institutions and their curatorial challenges. "Independent curating":freelance curating, artist-run spaces. The Biennial, its specificities, possibilities and limitsCurating as a social, interdisciplinary and interspecies practice.
3. The role of the curator and its transformations over time. Curator between the status quo andthe market. Curator as celebrity. Curatorial activism and curating as engaged practice. Artistsas curators. Curatorial collectives and the platformisation of curating.
4. Curating and the post-socialist situation. The development of the curatorial discipline inCzechoslovakia, personalities of Czechoslovak curating. Curating, its personalities, topics andformats in the Czech Republic after 1990.
5. Curating between identity politics and revolutionary practice: non-Western and decolonizingperspectives in curating. Feminist perspectives in curatorial practice and queering thecuratorial. Curating from a 'disability' perspective. More-than-human perspectives andcurating. Curating in digital space.
6. Conceptualisation, theoretical reflection and critique of curatorial practice. Epistemologicalframeworks of curating. Curatorial research. "The curatorial", "curationism".