Expanding Exhibitions – online course by Node Center

Expanding Exhibitions: Innovative Approaches to Curating

online course by Node Center with Lauren Reid

Duration: Mar 11 – Apr 1, 2015
Estimated effort: 3 hours weekly
Application deadline: Sunday, March 8, 2015

This course will explore interesting strategies in exhibition-making and ways of thinking about curating by sharing a wide variety of innovative curatorial approaches that are designed to inspire. Expanding Exhibitions is for emerging and established curators who want to open up ways of thinking about their practice from the white cube and beyond.

This course will track significant moments in curatorial history and stimulating case studies, but rather than covering the field chronologically, it will instead focus on key themes and debates within exhibition-making such as the role of the curator, working with time-based media, exhibiting outside the art space and thinking globally. It will cross both inventive exhibition strategies as well as curatorial ethics that will provide opportunity for lively debate and the sharing of ideas between each other each week.

PROGRAM

Week 1: The role of the curator

Definitions of a curator
Key figures in curatorial history who have shaped the zeitgeist
The artist as curator as artist – where do we draw the line?

Week 2: Curating time-based media

Technical strategies for exhibition video and performance
Navigating a space and telling a story
Is the gallery the best place for time-based media? What are the alternatives?

Week 3: Outside the white cube

Where can we curate?
Working with a minimal budget
Ephemeral projects
What about the audience? Who, where, how?

Week 4: Beyond borders – curating the globe

Examples of global thinking: World Fair, Biennales, the museum
Communicating cultures – ethics
How does context affect content?
Tackling the political
Thinking interdisciplinarily – benefits and problems

For further information, please visit: https://www.nodecenter.net/course/expanding-exhibitions