STUDY PROGRAMME
Visual arts and Curatorial studies

AFAM CODE
ABPR36

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Performative techniques for visual arts

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Exhibition design

CREDITS
12

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

This course revolves around the investigation of the exhibition and editorial design options, that is, the theoretical and practical research around the idea of expanded display and art publishing (where books are also conceived as display areas).

The total credits for this course are 12, divided as follows:

• EXHIBITION DESIGN 2: 6 CFA

• EDITORIAL STUDIES 2: 6 CFA

Successful students will be able to:

EXHIBITION DESIGN 2:

• Develop a complete exhibition display project

• Adopt efficient strategies to approach the different practical aspects of exhibition design

• Thoroughly analyse and correctly understand a project brief

• Carry out research to understand the public exhibition of the individual work, selection and installation processes, choice of sites and spaces, linked to social and political relations.

• Enhance their critical-analytical skills around the history of exhibitions

EDITORIAL STUDIES 2:

• Work in a group and organise a small newsroom

• Develop the relationship between books and exhibition display

• Plan an event outside the academy

• Interact with professionals in the field of interest

• Design a communication strategy for an event

• Manage the relations with the general public

EXHIBITION DESIGN 2:

• The role of exhibitions in transcultural representation policies.

• Deconstructing the modernist filing, historiography and exhibition documents models through postcolonial and feminist narrative paths.

• Facing the international debate around the decolonisation of languages, exhibitions, institutions.

• Re-thinking display and its spatial and narrative tools, both within the institution that hosts the exhibition, and by guiding people across it.

• Applying the idea of "research exhibition" through different kinds of archives, and visual and documental traces.

EDITORIAL STUDIES 2:

• Relationship between books and other media such as video, performance and exhibition

• Relationship between page and screen

• Relationship between voice and text

• Relationship among writing, reading and performance

• Relevance of translations in artistic and curatorial practices

• Link between translation and identity

This is a theoretical/project based course. Over the course, the students will carry out didactic activities that are functional to achieving the learning goals, that in all modules may include:

• Classroom lectures

• Exercises and revisions

• Field trips

• Development of individual projects

• Individual study and research

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools for detailed study

The didactic modules that make the course will be assessed separately. The final grade will result from the weighted average of all marks, based on the final presentation of the project. They may include:

• Oral exam

• Complete projects

• Assessed revisions or mid-term tests

Further details on specific tests can be provided by the professors during the course. Assessment criteria include commitment, active participation and personal growth of the students during the course.

EXHIBITION DESIGN 2:

• Altshuler, B. (2013), Biennials and Beyond: Exhibitions that Made Art History: 1962-2002, London: Phaidon.

• Cornelia Butler C. (2011), From Conceptualism to Feminism: Lucy Lippard’s Numbers Shows 1969–74, Exhibition Histories, London: Afterall Books.

• Reilly, M. (2018), Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating, London: Thames & Hudson.

• Mosquera G., “The Marco Polo syndrome: Some Problems Around Art and Eurocentrism”, in The Biennial Reader, Ostfildern-Ruit, Hatje Cantz, 2010.

• AA.VV. (2011), Making Art Global (Part. 1). The Third Havana Biennale 1989, London: Exhibition Histories - Afterall Books.

• AA.VV. (2012), Making Art Global (Part 2): 'Magiciens de la Terre' 1989, London: Exhibition Histories - Afterall Books.

EDITORIAL STUDIES 2:

• Mancini M, Perrella G., eds. (2017), Pierpaolo Pasolini: Body and Places, Zurich: Patrick Frey.

• Minh-Ha T. (1992), Framer Framed, New York: Routledge.

• Phelan P. (1993), Unmarked: The Politics of Performance, New York: Routledge.

• Marker. C. (1962), Commentaires, Paris: Éditions du Seuil.

• Perec, G. (1997), Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, London: Penguin Books.

Further bibliographic recommendations may be provided by the professor during the course. A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.