PhD Seminar: Studies in the Curatorial
Curatorial studies is an emerging international academic field exploring the cultural functions of curating and its relation to exhibitions, institutions, audiences, art and display culture. While the spatialized discourse of objects remains vital, curating also partakes in expanded cultural practices. The curatorial engages in producing exhibitions for audiences to view as well as in changing aesthetic experience, in framing cultural conditions in museums and social space, and in investigating constructions of knowledge and ideology.
As curatorial strategies gain still more importance discussions and definitions are called for: What constitutes the curatorial? How can we perceive the role of exhibitions and expanded cultural practices of curating? What sort of knowledge is produced in curatorial strategies? How can we rethink the role of the curator in regard to art practices, audiences, sites and institutions? How are museums transformed and what sort of conservative, or maybe, critical potentials can be traced in exhibitions cultures?
The research group will meet on a monthly basis to discuss perspectives in the curatorial based on specific research cases and interests of the participants. Each discussion will be centered on a specific presentation, based on drafts for papers, for articles or on central texts in the field. Also included is the planning of and partaking in a two-day seminar with invited international speakers.
Studies in the Curatorial is conducted by Malene Vest Hansen, Post.Doc. Research Fellow at Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.
The seminars are planned to take place on these days from 10-13:
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11. januar - 23.2.47
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15. februar - 27.1.49
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7. marts - 27.1.49
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11. april - 27.1.47
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9. maj - 27.1.49
Ph.D. students planning to participate should send in a short resume (50-100 words) outlining area of research interest to vest@hum.ku.dk. Deadline: Dec. 10.
ECTS: 1,9 or 3,4 with paper presentation.