60-387 Critical Studies: Curating as Artistic Practice
9 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This seminar will explore various critical and inventive forms of curating as a medium in contemporary art. What happens to curating when it is used as a medium in and of itself How have artistsascurators, reversed power relations challenged relationships between the collector and collected, between colonialism and collection within and outside the spaces of museums, galleries, unauthorized venues, and cyberspace We will read about and view exhibitions by artists that have challenged conventional curating modes, such as Fred Wilsons Mining the Museum, David Hammons Charles W. White to Leonardo daVinci MoMA, Ohad Meromis Who is the Protagonist Guild and Greyshkul, Yto Barradas A Raft MoMA, Ryan Trecartins Surround Audience Triennial at the New Museum, Eve Fowlers and Lucas Michaels Artist Curated Projects My Head is Falling Out, so Im Standing on My Stomach an apartmentbased gallery in LA, Black Curators Collectives Meandering Networks, Mapping Nations Glasgow International, and online exhibitions organized by artists such as Cory Arcangel, Miltos Manetas, Wolfgang Staehle, and Shu Lea Cheang, just to name a few. Members of this seminar will engage in several handson curating projects that will interact with and conduct research in local collections, such as the Carnegie, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, the Warhol Museum, the Frick, the Mattress Factory, as well as excavating sites physical and virtual nationally and internationally outside institutional walls.
Prerequisites: none listed
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