Course: Curatorial strategies - presentation, contextualization, and explication of an artwork

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Course title Curatorial strategies - presentation, contextualization, and explication of an artwork
Course code KDT/853
Organizational form of instruction no contact
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 0
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Koleček Michal, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
These informations are in the annotation of the course.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
Current curatorial strategies are one of the key instruments, by means of which the present-day artistic production is mediated. The field of curatorial work includes a wide range of activities targeting on cooperation during the production of an artefact itself, on contextualizing it within an extended field of exhibition projects, and also on explicatory or socializing processes realized in the form of a theoretical reflection or educative strategies. Study subject Curatorial strategies - presentation, contextualization, and explication of an artwork aims to define determining methodological concepts of this still quite young discipline that are connected mainly with the period after 1989. As part of it, basic curatorial tendencies are analyzed, key curatorial personalities are introduced, and specific curatorial exhibition outputs are discussed. An integral part of this study subject is a combination of creative exploratory activities in the sphere of the studied subject-area - Curatorial studies - and creative practical activities realized in the form of partial exhibition outputs.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Exam Colloquium
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