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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Communication & Cultural Management
Displayed in timetable as:
Inszenieren
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Note: In your exam regulations, differing credits may have been specified.
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
10 | 24
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
The seminar introduces students to curatorial practices and techniques of displaying and will provide an overview of the theory and history of displaying and exhibiting. The course aims to foster a deeper understanding of curatorial practices past and present. On the basis of theoretical texts and expert talks, we will reflect on the role of the curator; on the basis of exhibition visits, we will examine how they succeed in creating intellectually inspiring and provoking atmospheres.
In addition to this rather broad and theoretical introduction, another focus will be on the documenta fifteen and socially engaged curating in particular.
The seminar also includes, a two-day excursion to the documenta in Kassel.
Please note:
The seminar is closely aligned to the practice-based part of the module. It is therefore highly recommended for ZU students to take the whole module and to choose 121182 | 241182 Curatorial Practice as well. In this part of the module, the participants will curate a program accompanying the “Radical Dreaming” exhibition series. For international students, it is also possible to take only the theoretical course.
The excursion will take place on 19th and 20th of September
A basic knowledge of art is required.
Educational objective:
Students become familiar with the various approaches, theories, and techniques of staging and curating.
Further information about the exams:
All students who also participate in the practical part are to write a small booklet accompanying a self-curated event, which should also take into account the theoretical thoughts discussed in class (max. 10 pages of text). This booklet is written and designed as a team project in groups of 4.
For incoming students it is also possible to write a critical exhibition review (5 standard pages).
Mandatory literature:
Mieke Bal: Telling, Showing, Showing off, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Spring, 1992), 556-594.
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: Production of Presence. What Meaning Cannot Convey, Stanford, CA 2004.
Bruno Latour: The Berlin Key, in: P.M. Graves-Brown: Matter, Materiality, and Modern Culture, London/New York 2000, 10-21.
Oliver Marchart: The Curatorial Function – Organizing the Exposition, in: Marianne Eigenheer: Curating Critique Frankfurt a. M., 43-46 (http://www.on-curating.org/files/oc/dateiverwaltung/old%20Issues/ONCURATING_Issue9.pdf).
Brian O'Doherty: Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, Santa Monica / San Francisco (1976) 1986.
John Roberts: The Curator as a Producer. Aesthetic Reason, Nonaesthetic Reason, and Infinite Ideation, in: Manifesta Journal (2009/2010), 51-57.
Nicholas Serota: Experience or Interpretation. The Dilemma of Museums of Modern Art, London 1996.
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