(FS24) The School of (Sub)Curating

The School of (Sub)Curating asks, discusses, plays with and ventures into the question of how to visualise art and knowledge in space. It teaches you a history of curating and challenges you to become active in figuring out spatial forms of presentation for artworks, books, magazines, films, sounds and more. With guest artists, curators and researchers.

The School of (Sub)Curating teaches you about curating both historically and practically. It increases the knowledge of and sensitivity towards space in relation to presentation and exhibition and their underlying histories. It asks students to take on an active role in further expanding, assessing critically and playing experimentally with these histories. 
Students will learn to take into account different modes of presentation, to think about the translation of images, texts and other artefacts into space as well as addressing an audience through display, writing, discourse and invention. 
Each student, or group of students, will realise a small exhibition/presentation of a project, which will be on view at Kunsthalle Zürich in autumn/winter 2024.

The School of (Sub)Curating asks how to translate art and artifacts into space. How to install documents about an exhibition? Or a book? Or a digital magazine? How to contextualise an early platform for digital arts? How to introduce historic design for therapeutic toys? To stage children's books? To show a magazine stored on a USB stick? To translate travel books into space? Or films about exhibitions? What about presenting sound? Or a radio station? The collaborative seminar starts with introducing ways of curating, formats and projects. Then over to you: you take on one project, visualise it, install it and present it during an opening. It will be part of the exhibition AAA Experiment at Kunsthalle Zürich; guest artists, curators and researchers will present and discuss their projects with you.