Now many students want to study curation, but they have not received systematic professional training, nor understand the role of curators, let alone how to plan a successful exhibition. Therefore, it is necessary to study some systematic courses in professional colleges. The exhibition planning industry has a relatively short history in China, and the exhibition planning majors of overseas universities are relatively complete. According to the style and tendency of each school, the focus of the school's curatorial teaching is different. The following is a comparative analysis of curatorial studies, Edinburgh, SAIC and RCA Huangyi!
Studying abroad as a curator, Edinburgh, SAIC and RCA:
Royal College of Art
RCA, which ranks first in the global art category, has a very authoritative major in Curating Contemporary Art. Focusing on various public or private exhibition spaces, how to display a wide range of art and design works is our central proposition. The basic task of Huangyi teaching is to cultivate students' professional quality matching with it.
RCA Art Curator
In the eyes of RCA instructors, the thinking logic of the curator is the most important link. The core unit of the program should not only have an artistic sense of smell, but also know how to communicate with the audience.
The courses include art knowledge, political acumen, understanding of contemporary art and culture, and serious academic theories, which are all the thinking abilities that curators need. It should be able to summarize abstractly like an artist, restore abstractions to concrete images, and recommend and expand them to more audiences who do not have the ability to abstract.
In addition, Huangyi's teaching philosophy attaches more importance to summing up experience in practice and slowly "expanding his vocabulary", because it is very important for a curator to contact more art works and try more ways of expression.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago The location is superior, but because its location is right on the shore of Michigan Lake, adjacent to Millennium Park and Grant Park, the campus is set up in the Chicago Museum. As students studying in SAIC, they can feel the pleasure of walking through the museum every day.
SAIC Chicago Academy of Art Curatorial
The compulsory courses for students of SAIC's curatorial major include curatorial practice, research training and methods, art history&criticism and methods of visual culture, etc.
The school focuses more on providing students, scholars and museum professionals with the opportunity to plan an art exhibition, as well as internships in galleries and museums, to provide students with more opportunities for development.
The core of the course attaches more importance to the thinking logic and design skills of each link. It focuses on cultivating students' practical ability and ability to compare and relate works of art, improving their thinking ability and critical thinking and tolerance, and finally forming their own views.
This unique program will provide students with invaluable knowledge, experience and employment skills in museum, business and academic fields, while enabling students to establish professional links between the two.
The major of exhibition planning in British universities is mainly to help students understand and learn exhibition planning in terms of the combination of art and media, art and cultural policy communication, photography research, project planning, art commercialization, etc.
MScR Collections&Curing Practices of the University of Edinburgh is set up in Edinburgh College of Arts. This major focuses on research, and can also enable students to deeply understand the current issues and practices in the field of curation, and cultivate critical, analytical and other related research skills.
This major cooperates with many institutions, and even can go to these places for internship, such as the National Museum of Scotland, the National Library of Scotland, the National Gallery of Scotland, the Talbot Gallery, the Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh's own special collections, etc.
University of Edinburgh Curatorial
The required courses are guided research practice, collection theory, practice and methods, art history papers, etc. In addition, there are also postgraduate professional courses in Film, Exhibition&Construction.
It is easy to see from the name of the major that the curriculum will mainly focus on film related curation. There are many optional courses related to film.
In general, the curatorial profession is also like a creator, which can transform the artistic language into a language that can be understood by the audience. But before becoming a more professional artist, you should first become a more sensitive audience.
In addition, the future career direction of curation should be the part that many people care about. You can choose to be a resident curator, independent curator, art writer, critic, or manage the collection, artwork, exhibition introduction, etc. in the organization. It can be seen from this that as a newly emerging art field, the curatorial profession, coupled with the rapid development of China's economy, has seen an increasing number of art exhibitions in major cities, and the demand for talent for art curators is also growing. Therefore, curators with relevant overseas education and experience will have a bright future.
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