Seminar 5 - preparation

Week 7 presents the 5th Seminar in the module ' Context Responsive Curating'. This session will endeavour to begin a period of production in the areas of exhibition, website and blog, after completion of the first four contextual studies of the area of alternative practices, especially Situationism, Fluxus, Abject Art, and their curatorial adderss in contemporary manifestations.

These introductions to contemporary curating [outside the museum and mainstream] have adjusted the institution of exhibition in considerations of process. Session 5 [ week 7] is therefore a practical workshop to realising some of these processes, and their attributive practices, from the current position of interrogation of inheritances of avant-garde works.

The text explication, as requested in the last seminar, session 4, [week 5], will be handed in as part of formative assessment. It was also requested from each participant to set up and maintain a blog. Each student will present work in progress. The blog is like a draft or sketchbook and may contain research material in consideration of an essay [a catalogue or theoretical piece of writing]. The writing can take the form of a study of particular work[s] or articulate an artist position, in the form of a statement or as artists' writing. We will look at these to find certain themes that can be further developed.
A workshop will commence with the idea of the proposal for an exhibition. This might take a form of drawing / hand writing / collage - all manner of drawings and texts can be considered: from diagrams, notations, cartoons, collage, photo-montage, scribbles, manifestos, instructions for other works, theoretical proposals, notes, explications. These will be made in the session either from previous research material or from pure invention. Drawings may be shared in their authorship.
At the end of the session the proposals, made on paper, will be printed during the week to b/w A1 poster size to assemble as an exhibition to be mounted on the walls around teh space the following week 8, session 6. From this position, further discussion will be platformed around the exhibition, and its subsequent plural forms, such as designing display mechanisms, and introducing video, sound, and performance as supplements to an event. We will discuss the dates for such an event and launch of website.