Decolonial Curating and Museology - YBAJ238

• Title: Decolonial Curating and Museology
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Denisa Tomková, M.Sc., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students
• Is incompatible with: YMGS651

Annotation

English

In this course, we will read theoretical literature on curatorial practices and the genealogy of curating. The course will introduce contemporary issues that affect the production and organization of exhibitions, such as globalization and migration, digital culture, urbanization and the use of space, and changing public understandings. The course includes knowledge of the cultural, theoretical, social, political and economic issues that underpin the art gallery and museum system. What happens to political projects when they are exhibited or even enclosed in normative spaces such as a museum or exhibition? How to think of curating as care and inclusion? We look at the concept of "slow curating". How to view archives through a decolonial perspective? Should museums return colonial artifacts? How to deal with the problematic heritage that underpins many collections? How to creatively reshape historical archives through curatorial practices? The course will include excursions to galleries, museums and other exhibition spaces. Through visits to galleries, museums, and art collections.

Last update: Kučabová Veronika, Bc. (07.09.2023)

Course completion requirements

- Class attendance, active participation in discussions, reading of required readings and maximum of 2 absences = Bc. students

- Class attendance, active participation in discussions, reading of required readings and maximum 2 absences, plus oral presentation in class = MA students in Gender Studies

Last update: Tomková Denisa, M.Sc., Ph.D. (02.09.2024)

Literature

Recommended:

• . . In Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha. . . Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism . London: Verso, 2019, s. -. ISBN ..
• . . In Dimitrikaki, Angela and Perry, Lara.. Politics in the Glass Case: Feminism, Exhihibition Cultures and Curatorial Turn . : Liverpool University Press., 2013, s. -. ISBN ..
• . . In Krasny, Elke and Lingg, Sophie (Ed. et.al.) . Radicalizing Care. Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating. . : Stenberg Press., 2021, s. -. ISBN ..
• . . In Elke Krasny and Larra Pery (eds). . Curating with Care. . : Routledge, 2023, s. -. ISBN ..
• . . In Lee, Shimirt. . Decolonize Museums. . : OR Books., 2022, s. -. ISBN ..
• . . In O'Neill, Paul. The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), . : The MIT Press , 2012, s. -. ISBN ..
• . . In Terry Smith. Curating the Complex and The Open Strike. . : Stenberg Press, 2021, s. -. ISBN ..
• . . In Ndikung, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng. . Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating. . : Stenberg Press, 2023, s. -. ISBN ..

Last update: Tomková Denisa, M.Sc., Ph.D. (21.09.2023)

Syllabus

1: 7.10 INTRODUCTION

2: 14.10 ARTIST-AS-ARCHIVIST: 35m Gallery Visit 

3: 21.10 DECOLONIAL NARRATIVES: FOTOGRAF FESTIVAL VISIT 

4: 28.10 Public holiday

5: 4.11 MUSEUMS (History, Archives, Definition (ICOM)), HISTORY OF EXHIBITIONS AND NEW MUSEOLOGY

6: 11.11RESTITUTIONS and DECOLONIZING MUSEUMS

7: 18.11 MATERIAL CONDITIONS FOR ARTISTIC PRODUCTION and CURATORIAL MATERIALISM

8: 25.11 INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE (Feminist Perspective, Politics in Glass Case)

9: 2.12 WHO IS INCLUDED? DECOLONIAL CONTEMPORARY ART 

10: 9.12 CURATING AS CARE

11: 16.12 FILM SCREENING: (Ja'Tovia Gary, The Giverny Suite, 0:41)

12: 6.1 ART BIENNALES

 

Last update: Tomková Denisa, M.Sc., Ph.D. (02.09.2024)