Discover contemporary art and design curatorial thinking and practice, with sector-leading curators, artists, researchers and writers, live online with a multi-disciplinary staff team from the RCA.
Dates: 8 – 19 July 2024
Early bird discount ends 30 April 2024
Curating Contemporary Art and Design: Theory and Practice at the Royal College of Art provides an intensive introduction to contemporary curatorial thinking and practice in art and design. This year’s course theme, ‘Curating After the Internet: New Media and Digital Cultures‘, addresses the questions and shifts in curatorial practice posed by network cultures and emerging digital technologies. Applications open now!
This online short course offers critical perspectives from the viewpoint of experts who curate, research and write in the cultural sector, with opportunities for participants to engage with cutting edge curatorial approaches.
Through in-depth discussions with pioneering curators, participants are introduced to modes of curating and commissioning contemporary art across the museum, the gallery, the public realm, and the online environment.
Led by the Royal College of Art School of Arts & Humanities, the Curating Contemporary Art and Design summer school team is composed of curators, critics, researchers, historians and writers. As a forum for learning in a collaborative, highly dynamic and participatory atmosphere, the course combines analytical debate with online workshops, group activities and practice-led approaches taught by the world’s leading art and design university and delivered online.
Guest speakers on the 2024 programme include Bassam El Baroni (Curator, Researcher and Associate Professor, Aalto University), Katrina Sluis (Curator, Researcher and Head of Photography and Media Arts, ANU School of Art and Design) and Michael Connor (Curator and Co-Director of Rhizome, the New Museum), with more to be announced.
Touching upon questions of aesthetics, ethics, specialism, value and collaboration, the course will provide the tools to navigate the complexities of curating ‘the contemporary’ whilst offering new directions and scope to innovative curatorial practice. See the course webpage for more information.
Image credits: MA Curating Contemporary Art Graduate Projects (top-down, left to right): 1. Agorama Moses the Lonely Londoner, 2019. 2. Friendred, Decisions-Cloud. 3. & 4. Max Grau, bbBbddDdyYyy_ssssss_a_cCccCAAaGGee, 2019. 5. (play)ground-less, hollow tongues, 2017. 6. Joey Holder, Adcredo – The Deep Belief Network, 2018. 7. Lisa Hall and Hannah Kemp-Welch, We are just animals, humans, and machines getting on together in specific lifeworlds., 2021.
