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Curating 2023 (ARTX11047)

Curating 2023 (ARTX11047)

MA Contemporary Art Theory, School of Art, ECA

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Curating /// Feedback, Peer Support and Assessment

Assessment & Feedback: Your Responsibilities

  • Engage appropriately with assessment tasks.
  • Proactively seek support if unclear on what is required in an assessment.
  • Read, reflect on and act upon the feedback provided.
  • Engage with assessments honestly and fairly, upholding academic integrity.

See: Assessment & Feedback Principles & Priorities (744.6 KB PDF)

Formative Feedback

The primary purpose of feedback is facilitate student learning.
Formative tasks – such as Class Assignments and ‘Formative’ Assignments – are used specifically to allow the time and space for constructive and developmental feedback to be provided, and for you to reflect on and act upon the feedback. Feedback is more developmental where it is formative (feedforward), offering you more opportunity for learning development. This course aims to increase feedback dialogue with CAT students throughout the assessment process by shifting the balance or emphasis of feedback from the end of the assessment (when you cannot change anything) to earlier in the assessment process to allow you to learn from the feedback and improve your performance.
Please note that peer-led formative feedback is a key component of this course’s curriculum design. The course requires (and assesses) full-participation in workshops. Each session takes the form of a workshop that enables you to collectively reflect upon and develop the work you have produced over the previous week (learning-to-learn).
You will receive verbal formative feedback from your tutors and peers every time the cohort meets (‘seminars’, ‘tutorials’).

Formative Assignment Details

This consists of a live (ie. in-person) presentation of your individual  Curatorial Pitch to the whole cohort in Week 5 on Tuesday 14th February 2023.

Curatorial Pitch format:

  1. A live presentation of your idea for the individual Curatorial Project that you aim to present as the final practical outcome of the Course in Week 12. Maximum 8 minutes in duration.
  2. The presentation should be accompanied by a short Powerpoint that contains images and text that helps to communicate your project idea. You should share upload your presentation to Teams by Monday 13th February.
  3. Your pitch should communicate key conceptual and practical aspects of your project idea, this includes: the curatorial format (online exhibition or other digital event, publication, screening, performance), the mediums featured, participants and publics, location, duration, capacity
  4. Your pitch should reflect on key course content from Weeks 1, 2, 3 and 4 that has informed the research and development of your idea.
  5. Your pitch should summarise steps forward as you see them towards then realisation of your project.
  6. You can include a set of questions you have about your project for which you would like to seek feedback from tutors and peers.

Where / when do you presentation the Curatorial Pitch?

You will present your Curatorial Pitch in person to the cohort on Tuesday 14th February 2023 (Week 5) in Room PL_G.21 in Paterson’s Land. The session will run from 10.30am to 4pm, all students should attend the entire session.
  • You will be given feedback from course tutors and from your peers during a short Question & Answer period after your presentation.
  • There are 24 students enrolled on the course, the running order for the presentation of the Curatorial Pitches will be confirmed in Week 4 and shared on the course Teams.
  • We will have breaks, however come prepared for a day long event.
  • Discuss any concerns you have about the presentation with your tutor beforehand to help you best prepare for the day.

Since  this session is for the purposes of formative feedback, you will not be given a grade. If you do not submit, or submit late there is no penalty however this is a very valuable opportunity to gain feedback on your progress and the interest and feasibility of your curatorial project idea.

Summative Assessment

Summative written feedback on each Learning Outcome with cooresponding grades will be given by your tutor only once the whole course has completed (after Week 12).

 

The following Summative Assignment is used to assess your course work summatively.

Summative Assignment

Statement of Assessment

Standards and criteria for progression

Standard-setting is the process whereby decisions are made about boundaries or ‘cut-points’ between grades (See Regulation 31.6)

In terms of grading, there are really only four possible outcomes for this course:

  • Fail
  • Pass
  • Pass with a Merit
  • Pass with a Distinction

To Pass, you will – at very least – have to successfully complete all of the Project Book work listed below. Successfully completing the Project Book work means providing clear evidence that demonstrates ‘what you are doing’ to achieve the three learning outcomes.

The three learning outcomes are absolute, they definine minimum levels of competence required to pass.

Standard-setting for Merit Pass and Distinction Pass are norm-referenced against the absolute (a pass). Clearly exceeding the minimum levels of competence will help you build a stronger case for awarding a Pass with a Merit or Distinction for the course as a whole.

Summative Assignment Details

Part 1 – Project Book

You will submit a Project Book that contains the following two components:

 

#1: A Curatorial Portfolio that documents and clearly visualises how you researched and contributed to the evolution of your individual Curatorial Project

The Curatorial Portfolio is maintained in WordPress and is embedded in LEARN. Please ensure that you use this WordPress and only this one!!

You should also include Blog posts that reflect on the development of your Collective and the Curatorial Programme.

#2: Critical Reflection on your Portfolio that accounts for your own curatorial journey towards the realisation of your individual  Curatorial Project

The Critical Reflection text must not exceed 2,500 words. The word limit does not include footnotes, bibliography or Figs. You should also include a section that reflects on the development of your Collective and the Curatorial Programme (around 500 words of the 2,500 limit).

You will upload the Critical Reflection text to LEARN (Turnitin) for assessment.

Both components of the Project Book will be used to assess if you have achieved all three Learning Outcomes:

Learning Outcome #1. Research: Identify, engage with, and apply a range of contemporary curatorial methods, practices and theories relevant to the commissioning, production, dissemination and archiving of cultural practices.

Learning Outcome #2: Practice: Working with your peers, commission, produce, disseminate and archive cultural practices, locating your approach in relation to the expanded field of contemporary curatorial theory and practice.

Learning Outcome #3: Review & Reflect: Critically analyse a) your own curatorial practices, and b) your peers’ curatorial practices in relation to a range of contemporary curatorial practices and theories.

DEADLINE: Due 4th May 2023 at 3pm.

Summative Assignment Details

Part 2 – Peer Review

#3: Peer Review

Having contributed towards the realisation of your group Curatorial Programme, you will review the curatorial contributions made by at least one of your peers by examining and critically responding to their Project Book (i.e. the contents of their WordPress Blog on LEARN).

• Your Peer Review takes the form of a 500 word maximum post to the (Learn) WordPress Blog of your nominated peer.

•Peer nomination: Decided in-class by Week 10 and a list posted to the course Teams.

Along with your own Project Book, Assignment #3 will be used to enable staff to fully assess Learning Outcome #3:

Learning Outcome #3: Review & Reflect: Critically analyse a) your own curatorial practices, and b) your peers’ curatorial practices in relation to a range of contemporary curatorial practices and theories.

 

***EXTENDED DEADLINE: Due 14th April 2023***

 

Regulation 17 Assessment deadlines: student responsibilities (link)

It is a student’s responsibility to ascertain and meet their assessment deadlines, including examination times and locations.

Extensions and Special Circumstances Service

If you need to apply for an Extension of Special Circumstances, please follow this link for information (link).

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