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1/2/2014

Course in curatorial practice Venice

School for Curatorial Studies Venice, Venezia

The School for Curatorial Studies, Arts and Communication is an ambitious and challenging project promoted since 2004 and conceived as a school committed to experimentation and interdisciplinary thinking. The main goals are to spread the knowledge in the field of visual arts and to introduce the students to the professions related to the art world, focusing on contemporary curatorial theory and practice and contemporary museology. The School’s activities are meant for all those interested and passionate of art, graduated students or professionals who want to deepen their knowledge and improve their practical skills. The centre’s teaching staff is formed by Italian and international professionals, scholars, historians and art critics of recognized experience.

The program:
The Course in Curatorial Practice is an English-taught, intensive program on the history of contemporary visual arts and practices of exhibition-making. Through interdisciplinary le ctures, the course provides practical training and experience within museums and exhibition settings. Its international faculty includes curators and museum professionals, artists and critics. The course is designed to increase the students understanding of the intellectual and technical tasks of the curator figure related to the set up of exhibitions and projects. The lectures cover both theoretical and practical topics that go from History of Exhibition to Exhibition Management.
The students participate in weekly activities such as artist studio visits, tours of exhibition spaces, networking events, and workshops with a variety of experts and practitioners. The second module of the course includes a three week tour of a specific European area that is of interest for the contemporary art scene (Every year is chosen a different place) . During the trip, our school will arrange meetings with artists, curators, museums and non-profit centres.The program culminates with t he set up of an exhibition or an art event and the publication of a printed catalogue.

Didactic Modules:
The course is divided in four modules, held by different professional figures. In the first module we will discuss history of exhibitions, exhibition design and display and exhibition management. The program will consider how the specific forms of exhibition and curating practices have evolved; how exhibitions engender forms of spectatorship, reception, and transmission; and how exhibitions and curators participate in the development of various theoretical art-historical and sociopolitical contexts.
The school’s means are to align these specific theoretical lectures to a practical approach. Students will be offered the possibility of a gallery training, specifically focusing on the setting up of an event and concentrating on the possibilities offered by the chosen space.
Duration and structure:
The course has a duration of 460 hours. Lectures will be held from Monday to Friday, from 9.30am to 1.30pm and from 02.30pm to 05.30pm. Theoretical lectures will be held in the mornings, in order to provide conceptual and operational tools to independently manage the setting of an exhibition (35 hours par week). In the afternoon, students will attend seminars, workshops, guided tours to museums and exhibitions which animate the rich cultural environment in Venice.
The participants will develop the themes as well as concepts, organization, acquisition, communication and the concrete implementation together with the course director and international guests (artists, curators, architects, critics, fine arts scientists and publishers of art journals).
Start date, duration:
The course begins at the 26th May; it involves 460 contact hours and approx. 200 hours of independent study and work.

Course dates:
1. module: May 26 – July 11, 2014
2. module: September 1-21, 2014
3. module: September 29 – October 10, 2014
4. module: December 1-12, 2014

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