Curatorial Minds Lab 2021
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Curatorial Minds Lab duration: February
– May, 2021
Curatorial Minds Lab is bimonthly gathering
(online/on campus) of SMU alumni and current students interested in deepening
their understanding of the historical development of curatorial practices and
the study of contemporary art display theory/practice including exhibition typologies
and curatorial models.
Curatorial Minds Lab will be hosted by the
Hawn Gallery in the Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library. Using and thinking
about/around the gallery space within a library as a model for curatorial
experimentation within the university and beyond is central to the lab.
We will visit the university libraries, learn about their
collections and manifest new possibilities to intertwine contemporary arts and
experimental artistic practices into already existing discourses.
Curatorial Minds Lab goals:
- Develop a clearer understanding of contemporary curatorial practices and related theoretical positions.
- Produce proposals for curatorial projects
- Understand strategies to develop exhibitions articulated in the lab.
- Be comfortable doing studio visits with local artists.
- Identify some of the pathways for becoming an arts curator
- Develop skills of critical analysis and communication.
- Develop research skills for searching information on curating
and curatorialship.
3- 5 Participants will:
- Participate
in the design and conceptualization of the Curatorial Mind Lab exhibition
space.
- Lead
talks with a series of curators (local, regional and international).
- Create
proposal for the Pollock Gallery future programming.
- Visit
the SMU library collections in depth.
- Produce
a collective publication with curatorial proposals.
- Participate
both online and in person in collective research and conceptualization.
The open call for the Curatorial Minds Lab 2021 is currently closed.
Curatorial Minds Lab is a project lead by Sofia Bastidas Vivar, SMU
Pollock Gallery Director.