Developing Curatorial Concepts: Research & Creative Ideation
Duration: Mar 12 – Apr 9, 2024
Fee: 210€
Max Seats: 33
Enroll Before: Mar 8, 2024
Live Sessions: 2 hrs/week
In this course, participants will learn research methods and creative ideation techniques to develop a concept for an exhibition or a curatorial project in its most expansive sense. Questions such as the format of the project, audience engagement, thematic focus, and content will be explored. More importantly, the course delves into how these elements interconnect to form a cohesive, multidimensional project, or what can be referred to as your curatorial concept.
Each week, the course will center around four core aspects of curating: the theme, the form, the content, and the audience. Through these interrelated aspects, participants will explore various research-gathering strategies that draw on methods found in design thinking, anthropology, and the arts. This includes sharpening traditional online and offline research methods, learning to observe through fieldwork and interviews, and experimenting with creative exercises.
By engaging with the key elements of curating and receiving feedback throughout, participants will stretch the limits of their ideas before grounding and refining them into a well-researched and engaging curatorial concept. Joining the course with an initial idea is recommended to fully leverage the research and creative processes for your project.
Lauren Reid, an independent curator with extensive experience across exhibition-making, anthropology, and film, will guide the course. She is a Co-Director of insitu collective, a Lecturer at Node Centre for Curatorial Studies, and a PhD Candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Her project, ‘Thinking Beyond the Final Frontier: Cosmic Futures in Thailand,’ showcases her interdisciplinary approach. Reid has curated exhibitions at prestigious venues worldwide, including the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthal Viborg in Denmark, Casino – Forum d´Art Contemporain in Luxembourg, and Kunstverein Göttingen in Germany.