Lecturer: Hildegund Amanshauser
Date: 23, 24 March 2012

MA  in Cultural Production, Paris Lodron Universität in cooperation with Universität Mozarteum Salzburg

Curating is a term that was originally used for making exhibitions; during the last 10, 20 years it was more and more extended to the entire cultural field and is now applied to making exhibitions, symposia, dance festivals, literature, music or performance events etc. The curatorial is a method of generating, mediating and reflecting experience and knowledge and tightly interweaving theory and practice. During the last years the history and the theory of the curatorial has been more and more developed in the academic field.

Method:
I will give a short introduction on the curatorial focussing on visual art.

Close reading and text work: There is a reading list attached, which gives a broad introduction into this field. Each of the student should read all texts and select one for the presentation. Please make sure that each text is only taken once and present the text in the seminar. Please prepare a hand out (2 pages), which has to consist (as the presentation) of

1. Summery of the text (including information on the author and the context, where was it published, when etc.)

2. Analyses of the text (structure, main issues and arguments, references, etc)

3. Your personal opinion, could the text be a reference for you, do you agree/disagree.

4. What are the key issues worth for further discussion

Aim:
Introduction to the curatorial as a method, with a specific focus on the relation of theory and practice particularly with regard to the master theses projects of the students.

The mark will refer equally to the presentation of the text, the handout and the participation in the seminar.

Texts:
1. Daniel Baumann: Changes in the Economy of the kunstbetrieb, Part 3: The Freedom of the Curator, in Spike, Vienna Berlin, Winter 2011 Nr. 30, p. 29 – 35.

2. Beatrice von Bismarck: Curatorial Criticality – on the Role of Freelance Curators in the Field of Contemporary Art, in: on-curating.org, Issue 09/11, p. 19 – 23, http://www.on-curating.org/documents/oncurating_issue_0911.pdf

3. Maria Lind: Selected Nodes in a Network of Thoughts on Curating

Maria Lind: The Curatorial, both in: Brian Kuan Wood (ed): Maria Lind Writing, Berlin New York 2010, p. 29 – 31 and p. 63 – 66.

4. Gerardo Mosquera: Beyond Anthropophagy: Art, Internationalization and Cultural Dynamics, talk at the symposium Global Art, Salzburg International Summer Academy, summer 2011, published: http://www.summeracademy.at/Symposium-Global-Art_217_p150.html 2011

5. Hans Ulrich Obrist with Ingo Niermann: The Elephant Trunk in Dubai, in Hans Ulrich Obrist: Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Curating… , Berlin, New York 2011 p.31– 56.

6. Irit Rogoff: WE. Collectivities, Mutualities, Participations. In: Dorothea von Hantelmann and Marjorie Jongbloed (ed): I promise it’s political. Performativity in art, Cologne 2002 p. 126–133

7. Anton Vidoke: Art without Artists?, in: e-flux journal #16, 05 / 2010 http://www.e-flux.com/journal/art-without-artists/

8. Political Involvement as a Basis for Collaboration: Interview with What, How and for Whom, Curatorial Collective and Directors of Gallery Nova, published in on-curating.org Issue ‚ 05/10: The Making of... p. 12 – 14. http://www.on-curating.org/documents/oncurating_issue_0510.pdf

For further information see:

www.on-curating.org

http://www.e-flux.com/journals/

http://www.bard.edu/ccs/view/redhook1/

http://www.bard.edu/ccs/redhook/hard-drive-an-experiment-in-intervisuality/

Hildegund Amanshauser, art historian, author, curator

www.amanshauser.net

Since 2009 director of the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts

2004 to 2009, professor for art history and art theory, Academy of Fine Arts Muenster (Germany)

1992 to 2004 director and curator Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg

1987 to 1992, curator Secession Vienna

1991 Austrian commissioner Sao Paulo Biennale

1985 to 1987 curator for photography and works on paper, Museum of Modern Art Vienna

1981 to 1985 several research projects, freelance projects for Vienna Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Austrian Society of Architecture, Vienna etc.

Publications on modern and contemporary art

Research focuses: public art, performative art, film, video, exhibition history and theory

Education

Study art history, archaeology and philosophy in Salzburg and Vienna, study visits in Paris and Berlin, theses: “On the writings of Adolf Loos” (published, Vienna 1985

Vorspann skulptur projekte münster 07 Publikation
Hauptseminar
Seminarraum 1
Mittwoch 16 bis 18 Uhr,
1. Termin 25.10.2006
Es können TN und LN erworben werden.

Im Wintersemester 2006/07 finden im Anschluss an das Programm des Sommersemesters 06 noch vier Vorträge im Rahmen des Projekts Vorspann skulptur projekte Münster 07 statt, die von Studierenden moderiert werden. Dieses Seminar beschäftigt sich mit der Publikation, die Interviews mit den insgesamt zehn Vortragenden umfasst, sowie ein Streitgespräch mit den drei KuratorInnen der skulptur projekte Brigitte Franzen, Kasper König und Carina Plath. Die Publikation erscheint im Februar 2007.

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Kolloquium Hauptstudium
Geblockt, im Ausmaß von 3 Wochenstunden
Termin wird bekannt gegeben
Keine LN und TN

Das Kolloquium richtet sich an Studierende, die eine mündliche oder schriftliche Prüfung vorbereiten oder an einer Magisterarbeit oder einer Dissertation schreiben. Die Themen werden in Referaten vorgetragen und gemeinsam diskutiert. Das Seminar findet als Blockveranstaltung statt. Es können keine LN und TN erworben werden.

Sprechstunde
Dienstag 16 bis 17 Uhr und nach Vereinbarung