Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen
Koninklijk Conservatorium van Antwerpen
Embodied curating35207/3501/2526/1/36
Study guide

Embodied curating

35207/3501/2526/1/36
Academic year 2025-26
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
  • credit contract.
  • exam contract (to obtain a credit).
  • exam contract (to obtain a degree).
Teaching staff: Tchernokondratenko Anastasia
Teaching staff are not (all) known yet.
Languages: Dutch, English
Scheduled for: Semester 2
This course unit is marked out of 20 (rounded to an integer).
Possible deadlines for learning account: 15.03.2026 (2nd semester)
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.

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?

Different points of view and curatorial practices are scrutinised. 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.

Study material (text): Mandatory

  • See Programme 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
1st examination periodArtistic practical assessment50,00
1st examination periodReflection assignment permanently during class weeks (Permanent evaluation)50,00

Evaluation (text)

Evaluation

See '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:
Your attendance is mandatory (except in cases of illness, force majeure, or written approval from the program) in order to be assessed through permanent evaluation. Unjustified absence will negatively affect your chances of passing the course.


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 previously approved by the head of the programme.