Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year full-time OR 2 years part-time
MA Contemporary Curating explores the notion of curatorial practice in contemporary culture by addressing a number of inter-related fields of creative practice and theoretical approaches and situating them in a historical and critical context. The course explores different kinds of curatorial issues in addressing exhibition-forms and exhibition-making processes and how we conceive of spaces of production and curating as subjects with our integrated research and practice-led approach.
The shifting relationship between artist-institution-curator-critic/writer forms a central element to the course with a special focus on the meaning the culture of curating, in which our perception of creativity has been transformed by curating and the discourses surrounding it. The course also explores the potential of seeing curating as something that can be applied to various forms of knowledge: publications, symposia, events and interventions.
This course is available to study full-time over one year, or part-time over two years.
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Our graduates have gone on to work at a wide range of institutions. The programme would be of interest to those planning to pursue a career in the museum and gallery sector, as well as those interested in related cultural work, such as arts administration, publishing and events organisation.
The programme also provides a suitable grounding for further study at doctorate level. Additionally, postgraduates are central to the work of our careers service.
MA Contemporary Curating is made up of five modules totalling 180 credits, exploring key topics in the study of curation. You can choose between two option modules depending on your interests. All of this culminates in a final major project on a topic reflecting on the theoretical, conceptual, contextual and practical skills you have learned.
Core units:
Major Project
Practice 1: Curating Spaces
Practice 2: Curatorial Process
Professional Practices
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