De Appel @ Uva: "Exhibitions aren't made by machines" #1
Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16 , kamer 1.01 A
Huib Haye van der Werf, Yoeri Meessen, Ann Demeester, Sophie Berrebi.
Lara van Meeteren
Following the success of their previous collaboration, de Appel arts centre and the University of Amsterdam jointly present the four curating seminars of the Art History M.A. course “Doing Modern & Contemporary Art”. Under the guidance of Ann Demeester and Sophie Berrebi, the students participating in the course will be introduced to basic concepts and issues in curatorial discourse. The curating seminars of the course “Doing Modern & Contemporary Art” will take place in February/April 2010, at the University of Amsterdam.
8 Feb: THE PAST – A bumpy speedy ride through exhibition history
The first session comprises of an abbreviated history of art exhibitions. It examines ‘exhibitionmaking’ in relation to curatorial modes such curating objects, curating public space, curating the institution, curating performance, curating ideas, curating critique, curating discourse and curating the audience.
Reading:
• "Introduction", "Who's Afraid of Gift-wrapped Kazoos?" (Jeffrey Kipnis) and "Questions of Practice" (Mark Nash), in: Merincola, Paula (ed.), "What Makes a Great Exhibition", Philadelphia: Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, 2006.
• "Constitutive Effects: The Techniques of the Curator", in: O'Neill, Paul and Mick Wilson (eds.), "Curating Subjects", Londen/Amsterdam: Open Editions/de Appel arts centre, 2007.
• “Remembering Exhibitions’: From Point to Line to Web” by Reesa Greenberg in Tate Papers, Landmark Exhibitions Issue, Autumn 2009. Available online
• “Response II: Towards a History of Exhibitions”, Julian Myers,Teresa Gleadowe and Christian Rattemeyver, in : “The Exhibitionist”, Issue number 4, June 2011, Archive Books, Berlin/Turin, p 24-35.
• Optional: The issue number 6 ‘Thinking about exhibitions’ of the on-line journal “On-Curating” and the issue number 2 “Institution as medium”
• Optional : Mousse Magazine: The Ten Fundamental Questions of Curatorial PracticeOver the course of ten issues, Milan-based Mousse magazine is publishing a series of "booklets" on curating by different authors, addressing different curatorial questions. See "What is a Curator?" (Issue #1, Jessica Morgan).
