The Valletta 2018 Curatorial School is a one-week intensive programme featuring leading curators and experts from major international arts and academic institutions. The course includes daily lectures for the whole group and workshops for smaller groups of students. The theme for this year’s Curatorial School is ‘Social practices in contemporary art and curating’, which will focus on artistic and curatorial practices which engage directly with audiences or specific groups of people. Social practice art is typically collaborative, performative and interdisciplinary, bringing together various fields like ethnography, community arts, activism and experimental forms of curating. Presentations by individual speakers and workshops will deal with the following topics, amongst others:
- How might the curator produce projects that include participatory elements and manifest in the museum over a period of time?
- How can political involvement within and beyond institutions be formulated and staged with the aim to stimulate social change?
- How can we build a collective understanding of a territory when territories are fractured?
- How can curators activate and intervene in real-life contexts?
- How can the curatorial account for multiple sites of contact?
- How can art practice intersect with politics and activism meaningfully?
Further your curatorial career through insightful lectures and professional networking opportunities. The programme includes daily interactive workshops.
Directed by Professor Raphael Vella and organised by Valletta 2018, the Curatorial School hosts international guest speakers from various institutions; it offers a programme of lectures and workshops designed to bring new curatorial practices and philosophies to the local scene, while also opening the door to discussions on all areas of contemporary curatorial practice.
The Curatorial School is designed to act as a capacity-building and training opportunity for practitioners and students in a variety of related areas such as fine arts, art education, arts administration, curation and history of art. Participants will also be able to present their curatorial ideas and receive feedback from invited speakers.