Our Department of Art and the British School at Rome are pleased to announce the 2018 Curatorial Summer School entitled 'Curating the Contemporary' This Summer School is now in its third year and is aimed at those who are interested in the professional field of curating. This will take place in July 2018 at the prestigious British School at Rome. We are looking for entrants from a mix of backgrounds but particularly graduates and artists who are considering working in curating as well as established curators who want to think and talk about the challenges and opportunities that face curators in the contemporary moment. The course will provide you with an opportunity to engage intensively with the activity of curating contemporary art, one that produces exhibitions and events within an expanded field that includes commercial and public galleries, museums and foundations, but also public spaces and social contexts. It will investigate various modes of curating contemporary art, as well as in the expanded sense of the philosophical idea of the curatorial as it is currently discussed in the field.
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This is a 2 week intensive course intended to provide up to 22 participants an overview of recent developments and theories within the field. We will explore such issues using Rome as its context and case study. You will stay at the magnificent Luytens designed British School at Rome, where the school will also be based. The British School of Rome offers a wonderful context in which to form an engaged community of inquiry and debate around the subject of curating. It has a research library, seminar rooms, a gallery and a lecture theatre and lovely gardens. The course will be lead by Dr. Simon Sheikh , Director of the MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths , University of London, and will be based on its ethos of mixing theory and practice, while enabling participants to engage with our extensive professional networks in the field of contemporary curating. We will look at curating through the crucial phases of: Conceptualisation. Realisation and mediation. Taking on board the role of the curator. The ethics of working with artists. The process of identifying current themes and methods in contemporary art. The principles and pragmatics of installation. The politics of exhibition making today. Through lectures, presentations, site visits, assignments and discussions, the group will work on formulating how they place and see themselves as curators, and what this means in terms of productivity and articulation, but also care-taking and collaborations. We will make site visits to a number of spaces in Rome, taking in the full palette of possibilities, from museum and foundations, to commercial galleries and alternative spaces. You will also be supplied with a specifically assembled reader in curating and contemporary art, and will have lectures form a number of leading practictioners in the field. Over the course of the 2 weeks, you will have the opportunity to meet and learn from many of the leading curators and theorists of contemporary art and to be introduced to important professional networks within the field of contemporary curating. 2017 Schedule (Indicative of 2018 Schedule, which will be published shortly) Tuesday July 4 Arrival, check-in at British School of Rome. 4pm - Welcome meeting. 6pm - Drinks Reception. Wednesday July 5 10am - Introduction to the Summer School with Simon Sheikh. 3pm - Seminar on The Museum, legacies, hauntologies and prospects with Simon Sheikh. Thursday July 6 10am - Close Readings, on the museum with Simon Sheikh and Nathalie Boobis. 2pm - Site visit, Galleria Nationale d’Arte Moderna + Assignment. 3pm - Assignment. 4pm - Cecilia Canzani, independent curating in Italy. Friday July 7 11am - Site visit, MACRO. 3pm - Richard Noble, Art and politics. Saturday July 8 11am - Iwona Blazwick, Ways of Curating. Sunday July 9 10am - Question of the day, Work on Assignments. 2pm - Melanie Bouteloup, Curating and the Contemporary. Monday July 10 10am - Mike Watson, Curating in Rome. 3pm - Ilaria Gianni, Curator Nomos Foundation. Tuesday July 11 10pm - Close Readings, on the contemporary with Simon Sheikh and Nathalie Boobis. 2pm - Tirdad Zolghadr, Escaping the Contemporary. Wednesday July 12 11am - Gallery Tour, Mike Watson. 6pm - ESC Atelier, Presentation, Paolo Do. Thursday July 13 11am - Site visit, MAXXI. 2pm - Ele Carpenter, Curating and Research. Friday July 14 10am - Seminar with Sarah McCrory, the contemporary gallery. 2pm - Presentation of Assignments. Saturday July 15 10am - workshop with Nathalie Boobis. 2pm - Beatrix Ruf, Curating and the Museum. Sunday July 16 Free Monday July 17 10am - Close Reading, The Postcolonial Constellation. 12am - Curation and Futurity, Simon Sheikh. 2pm - Dynamic Conclusions. Tuesday July 18 Evaluation. Departure.
