Museum Curating Now; Behind the Scenes at Tate

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This brand new course, Museum Curating Now: Behind the Scenes at the Tate, examines the practice of contemporary curating and what it means in an international public arts institution like Tate. What is the role of a curator and how do they negotiate between the wide range of social, political, and economic factors that shape the context within which they work? What are the decisions, strategies, and approaches that inform and shape the work of curators today?

Over eleven weeks, this course considers the ways in which curators at Tate develop, manage, and engage with the Collection, temporary exhibitions, events, and arts projects within the current global climate, while responding to diverse institutional and non-institutional contexts, histories as well as geo-political and social conditions. A critical approach and understanding of contemporary curating practices are developed through a behind-the-scenes look at the ‘management’ role of curators across a diverse range of the museum’s activity.

No prior knowledge of art history or museum studies is necessary.

Victoria Miguel is a writer and lecturer based in London. She recently returned to the UK after more than a decade in New York where she worked for the estate of the American composer, John Cage, and was one of the founding members of faculty for the MA in Contemporary Art programme at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York, teaching the theory and research classes. Her writing has been published on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2013, she was commissioned by the John Cage Trust to create an online version of his 1968 composition Reunion, which premiered in tandem with her play Laquearia at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, supported by a grant from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

In collaboration with the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London