Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen
Koninklijk Conservatorium van Antwerpen
Embodied curating35207/3355/2425/1/48
Study guide

Embodied curating

35207/3355/2425/1/48
Academic year 2024-25
Is found in:
  • Educational Master of Arts in Music & Performing Arts
    Specialisation:
    • Dance
  • Master in Dance
  • Master in Dance, programme stage 4
This is a single course unit.
Study load: 5 credits
It is not possible to enrol in this course unit under
  • exam contract (to obtain a credit).
  • exam contract (to obtain a degree).
Co-ordinator: Epifanio Renata Lamenza
Other teaching staff: Chanteigné Yann
Teaching staff are not (all) known yet.
Languages: Dutch, English
Scheduled for: Academic year
This course unit is marked out of 20 (rounded to an integer).
Possible deadlines for learning account: 31.10.2024 ()
Re-sit exam: not possible.
Possibility of deliberation: You have to pass this course unit (will never be deliberated).
Total study time: 150,00 hours

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Short description

In Embodied Curating, the participants delve into the history of curation and live arts, different points of view and curatorial practices are examined, and the participants take the modernist building of Arts Centre deSingel as a playground to organize a live arts exhibition.

Prerequisite competencies (text)

Passed the admission test.

Learning outcomes (list)

1. Develops and articulates bodily craftmanship through acquired tools and techniques.
Get acquainted with the history of curation and live arts
4. Shares the embodied craftsmanship within the artistic field.
Translates embodied methodologies to the artistic field
Evaluates how acquired embodied knowledge serves artistic practice
Transmits appropriate elements of their embodied artistic practice in an artistic context
Implement curatorial tools in a tangible and shareble artistic output

Course content

Live performance is gaining ground in the world of visual arts. Although there are many examples in the 20th century of how live performance can occur within the context of visual arts, it is only since 2000 that its influence became widespread and structurally implemented in established visual art institutions. How does live arts influence how museums work? And how does the museum context offer new possibilities for the development of live arts?

During a one-week exchange between the students of the Master Dance and the students of Curatorial Studies (KASK Gent), the students delve into the history of curation and live arts. Different points of view and curatorial practices are scurtinised. Besides contextualising about curation, students take the building of Arts Centre DE SINGEL as their playground to create a live arts/exhibition. The course focuses on the crossroads between live arts and curatorship. How to create curatorial frameworks for live arts? How different is the economics of live arts in relation to curating objects? How does live arts respond to the attention economy? These are examples of questions that form the base of this week.

The students will have a two-folded schedule. On the one hand, there will be lectures with invited curators and choreographers working whitin this framework, and on the other hand, the main responsible teacher-artist of the course will guide the week and the participants in developing a collaborative work. Together, the students will create a curatorial concept in relation to a performative intervention within the festival Bliss of DE SINGEL.

Study material (text): Mandatory

  • See Trotter (study guide)
  • Every student must have a laptop for blended learning (online and offline classes)

Educational organisation (list)

Learning Activities
Artistic praxis30,00 hours
Work time outside of contact hours120,00 hours

Evaluation (list)

Evaluation(s) for first exam chance
MomentForm%Remark
Eerste examenperiodeProject assignment50,00
Eerste examenperiodeReflection assignment permanently during class weeks (Permanent evaluation)50,00

Evaluation (text)

Evaluation

Refer to the evaluation list for the specific evaluation components of the course unit.

Re-sit exam
Not all courses have a re-sit exam possibility. Refer to the notification above in this ECTS information sheet for the possibility of a re-sit exam for this course unit.

A re-sit exam:

• is not possible for assessment methods that use permanent evaluation (see evaluation list above). When a re-sit exam is possible for the course, the grade for the permanent evaluation of the first examination period is transferred to the second examination period.
• is possible for the evaluation components that do not include permanent evaluation.

Attendance requirement:
100% attendance in classes is required as the programme is organised in short-term intensive modules. In case of less than 100% attendance, the student will receive 0/20 for the test form permanent evaluation.

Conditions for legitimate absence:

* An absence legitimised by a medical certificate uploaded in iBamaFlex
* Due to an Act of God, if approved by the head of the programme
* Exceptional circumstances, if approved by the head of the programme