Curatorial Practice

Postgraduate

Online

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Methodology

    Online

Our MA Curatorial Practice course has been developed in partnership with Turner Contemporary. It offers you the opportunity to think about and engage with art and issues of cultural regeneration through curatorial activity.

With a shared focus on experimental practice and vocational engagement, our course is open to curators, artists, historians, designers, architects and graduates in the humanities. It's been designed to foster new and innovative approaches to curation at an advanced level.

About this course

Our MA course explores historical and recent developments within the field of curatorial practice. It provides a means for understanding such strategies in the logistical contexts of art management, commercial and public gallery or museum operations, art fairs, fringe platforms and artist run spaces.

The distinctive geographical context of the course in Kent and the South East also offers you the opportunity to develop specific curatorial research in the context of cultural regeneration.

You'll be provided with opportunities for direct professional and public engagement with local arts organisations, biennales and public arts projects. And our course provides a range of means for testing curatorial strategies through both studio research and live contexts. This will help you to explore theoretical and practical processes of interpretation, framing and presentation.

You'll develop and manage your individual MA project. And this course is supported by seminars, tutorials, professional practice workshops, live projects, study visits and critiques.

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Subjects

  • Art
  • Project

Course programme

Course content - 2017 entry
  • Stage 1
  • Stage 2
  • Stage 3

You'll be introduced to the University and the technical workshops and facilities available to you. The first stage includes a range of lectures and seminars and you’ll start to explore your creative practice.

  • View the programme specification for 2016 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course stages
  • Context and Method

    Through a series of lectures and seminars, this unit provides an overview of a range of current debates that provide a cultural and intellectual context for the consideration of ideas within fine art and curatorial practice and encourages your active engagement with them. Our programme addresses inter-disciplinary issues across curation through the discussion of theory and the consideration of specific artworks, activity, exhibitions and texts.

  • Exploring Practice

    This unit is concerned with the exploration of creative practice, in order to inform the detailed development of your project proposal. This takes place throughout the first stage via a series of live projects working directly with industry partners.

During stage two you begin developing your MA project, evaluating and testing out the aims of your proposal over a sustained period of self-directed study.

  • View the programme specification for 2016 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course stages
  • Project Development (Practice or Dissertation)

    You'll begin to develop and investigate your proposed research project, testing ideas and establishing coherent modes for critically engaging with your curatorial practice. Throughout this phase you'll be supported through workshops, tutorials, forums, 'ideas in theory and writing' seminars and study visits locally, nationally and internationally.

In the third stage of the course, you'll apply the knowledge gained through your research to create a final body of work.

  • View the programme specification for 2016 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course stages
  • Final Project (Practice or Dissertation)

    You'll apply knowledge and experience gained in previous units to the realisation of your final MA project. This project realisation is the culmination, consolidation and dissemination of your studies and research.

  • View the programme specification for 2016 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course stages

Curatorial Practice

£ 9,250 + VAT