LU Pei-Yi

This course aims to provide an understanding of the theory and practice of curating. Through close readings of texts, exhibition visits and introduction to various modes of exhibition-making, the course will examine the complex relationship between exhibitions and the artworks it presents, the institution within which they are located and their multiple and diverse publics. The course will also explore the exhibition as a critical form that responds to social, political and economic exigencies in an increasingly globalised world.

Curriculum syllabus :

1. Introduction
2. Curatorial Concepts
3. Curating, Museum and Galleries
4. Visit or guest talk
5. The Curatorial Turn in the Global Age
6. Curating in the Postcolonial Time
7. Exhibition Histories
8. Mid-term week
9. Curating Collections
10. Curating Knowledge
11.Curating Topography
12. Performative Exhibition
13. Cinema of Exhibition
14. Oversea Study Trip
15. Students' Presentations
16. Conclusion

References :

• Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson and Sandy Nairne (eds.) Thinking about Exhibitions, Routledge, 1996.
• Tony Bennett, The Exhibitionary Complex, New Formation no.4 Spring issue, 1998, 73-102
• Claire Bishop, “Performative Exhibitions: The Problem of Open-Endedness”, in Timing: On the Temporal Dimension of Exhibiting, Sternberg Press, 2014
• Kate Fowle, “Action Research: Generative Curatorial Practices”, in Curating Research, Open Editions/de Appel, 2015
• Anthony Gardner & Charles Green, Post-North? Documenta11 and the Challenges of the “Global Exhibition“, OnCurating issue 33, 2017
• Boris Groys, "On the Curatorship", in Art Power, the MIT Press, 2008
• Paula Marincola (ed.), What Makes a Great Exhibition?, Reaktion Books, 2007.
• Hans-Joachim Muller, Hald Szeeman-Exhibition Maker, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006.
• Hans Ulrich Obrist, A Brief History of Curating, JRP Ringier, 2008.
• Paul O’Neill, “The Curatorial Turn: From Practice to Discourse”, in Issue in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance, Juditt Rugg(ed), 2009
• Simon Soon, “Rethinking Curatorial Colonialism”, in SouthEastAsia Spaces of the Curatorial, Sternberg Press, 2016
• Lucy Steeds (ed.), Exhibition (Document of Contemporary Art), Whitechapel Gallery,2014.
• David Teh, Obstacles to Exhibition History: Institutions, Curatorship and the Undead Nation-State, in The Curatorial Conundrum: What to Study? What to Research, What to Practice?, The MIT Press, 2016
• Ute Meta Bauer, Brigitte Oetker (eds), SouthEastAsia Spaces of the Curatorial, Sternberg Press, 2016.
• ICI http://curatorsintl.org/
• Biennial Foundation http://www.biennialfoundation.org/
• Documenta https://www.documenta.de/en/
• Taipei Biennial https://www.taipeibiennial.org/
• Afterall Exhibition Histories https://www.afterall.org/books/exhibition.histories/
• ONCURATING http://www.on-curating.org/issues.html
• Journal of Curatorial Studies https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-curatorial-studies
• Curatography curatography.org