2012 Summer Programs Brochure Application Form
Dates: from July 24th to August 3rd 2012
Course Language: English
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Cost: 1480€
Credits: 3 ECTS credits for 45 hours of classes
Course Content
Since the beginning of the millennium we can observe a substantial increase of international art events and exhibitions on a global scale. The art world has gained a totally different importance and role due to which figures such as critics, curators and artists have had to redefine their relationship. What are the main changes and trends that this shift has introduced? How does an exhibition and the contemporary art world work? Who are the actors involved in exhibition making today? Nowadays there is a close, even overlapping relationship between artistic and curatorial research and practice, continuously redefining each other’s role in the artistic space. It is exactly the exhibition space where curators as well as artists face the same questions: how can a certain work be exhibited or put on display? What can be the best preconditions in order to narrate a certain idea by showing works of art? What happens when one’s individual work is inserted in a collective context such as an exhibition? What is the role of the curator and that of the artist today and how is it possible to gain visibility for one’s work? What are the modes of research and working strategies these figures adopt today? What is the structure of the Art world and market and how the functions of diverse players in the field have changed throughout the recent years?
A group of experts with international experience will introduce the course participants with the basic and up-to-date strategies of the contemporary artistic, managerial and curatorial practices. The course will additionally offer students the opportunity of a hands-on experience, realizing a collective exhibition project that will be opened to the public at NABAsite – an exhibition space located on NABA Campus in Milan.
Objectives
The course aims at introducing participants to curatorial, critical, managerial and artistic practices and to provide them with the main tools necessary for showing their works and displaying the work of others. How does an exhibition work? What are the main organizational and conceptual steps to follow? What are the historical models and theoretical references one could refer to? These and other questions will become the core of the course that will assume a form of an active laboratory in order to realize an exhibition open to the public at NABAsite.
Who’s the course addressed to?
In general the course is addressed to students who have completed at least two years of university studies (BA) in the field of Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Design or in any related fields.
Methodology
Learning by doing: lectures, field trips and project work.
Course Leader
Project leader
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