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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.
What works well –
Xiaotong your research is considered and is a continuation of your interest more broadly in the theme of the educational turn. The idea of using Aristotle’s theory of development as a curatorial premise is intriguing and presents a potentially useful framework to commission responses to.
What could be improved –
Although you have identified examples of some games that could fit with the premise it would be better to look for artworks that are games unto themselves or artists that work within the educational turn and with a focus on children and pedagogy and consider how their works could be incorporated or new ones commissioned in relation to these ideas. It would be good to see you draw on existing curatorial practices and research in the area of the educational turn such as O’Neill & Wilson’s ‘Curating and the Educational Turn’ (2010) https://betonsalon.net/PDF/essai.pdf
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.
What works well –
You have clearly spent time considering the subject you wish to explore and carefully selecting examples that could match up with this ideas. This has led you to a position of attempting to illustrate an idea which is quite a narrow form of curation. You have also assumed the role of author in that process, curation allows you to work with and alongside other artists and cultural producers who are interested in this area so consider how to make the most of this.
What could be improved –
Some examples of curatorial and artistic practices that are currently working in this area would be Katie Schwab’s ‘The Seeing Hands’ which is a tactile library installation which is currently on at Collective Gallery and aimed at childhood development https://www.collective-edinburgh.art/programme/the-seeing-hands-katie-schwab or Leap then Look’s workshops who are a collaborative duo who make art workshops for children https://www.leapthenlook.org.uk/Projects.html or locally you could look at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s Schools Programme that commissions artists to work with school-age children https://edinburghsculpture.org/learning/schools-programme/ either the outcomes of these workshops (i.e. artworks by children) or workshop instructions themselves (as artworks) could be useful ways of thinking through these practices.
1st March 2023 at 1:09 pm
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.
What works well –
Xiaotong your research is considered and is a continuation of your interest more broadly in the theme of the educational turn. The idea of using Aristotle’s theory of development as a curatorial premise is intriguing and presents a potentially useful framework to commission responses to.
What could be improved –
Although you have identified examples of some games that could fit with the premise it would be better to look for artworks that are games unto themselves or artists that work within the educational turn and with a focus on children and pedagogy and consider how their works could be incorporated or new ones commissioned in relation to these ideas. It would be good to see you draw on existing curatorial practices and research in the area of the educational turn such as O’Neill & Wilson’s ‘Curating and the Educational Turn’ (2010) https://betonsalon.net/PDF/essai.pdf
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.
What works well –
You have clearly spent time considering the subject you wish to explore and carefully selecting examples that could match up with this ideas. This has led you to a position of attempting to illustrate an idea which is quite a narrow form of curation. You have also assumed the role of author in that process, curation allows you to work with and alongside other artists and cultural producers who are interested in this area so consider how to make the most of this.
What could be improved –
Some examples of curatorial and artistic practices that are currently working in this area would be Katie Schwab’s ‘The Seeing Hands’ which is a tactile library installation which is currently on at Collective Gallery and aimed at childhood development https://www.collective-edinburgh.art/programme/the-seeing-hands-katie-schwab or Leap then Look’s workshops who are a collaborative duo who make art workshops for children https://www.leapthenlook.org.uk/Projects.html or locally you could look at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s Schools Programme that commissions artists to work with school-age children https://edinburghsculpture.org/learning/schools-programme/ either the outcomes of these workshops (i.e. artworks by children) or workshop instructions themselves (as artworks) could be useful ways of thinking through these practices.