Art and its Curationto Curateto Careto Holdto Showto Explainto Preserveto Positionto Hideto Placeto Removeto Meetto Buildto Revealto UnfoldIt is popularly held that the word curate has its origins in the Latin word cura for “to care.” To curate is to care, to hold works and to place them in dialogue, generating meaning through the arrangement of objects, ideas, places, references, and more. To curate can also hold a sense of “to cure,” as if to heal, or in this moment, to amend. Examining curation as a method for what it means to care for and about art, as well as expressing care through art, this class will invite students to develop their own curatorial approaches based on a study and critique of current and historical models of curatorial practices and experiences. What histories do we tell through art and its curation? How are those impacted by historical and social conditions? Considering curation as an active process, each week we will examine a series of curatorial studies as a way to consider the global development of curatorial strategies since the nineteenth century, as well as more recent alternative curatorial approaches which query how we encounter and engage with works of art, ranging from global biennials to more localized social practices. Special attention will be paid to models of curation as prompts for dialogue and community building.HAAVC 2000 courses develop students' visual analysis skills while providing the opportunity for in-depth study of the visual/structural artifacts associated with a particular topic, region, or movement. Students will also engage with the relevant primary/secondary literature for the topic at hand. Courses will pay particular attention to the larger cultural, historical, and theoretical/ideological contexts in which the visual artifacts and structures under consideration were created.

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