"Curatorial Partnerships with Community" June 12-17
offered through the Cultural Resource Management Program at the University
of Victoria
A draft course outline is now available for this upcoming course with Carol
Mayer -- please contact us for more information!
DESCRIPTION
As museums become more responsive to the diverse communities they serve and
the cultures they represent, traditional curatorial practices are being
redefined. The curator's participation in collecting practices, research
methods, exhibition development, and the communication of knowledge is now
being subjected to more public scrutiny than ever before. As well, different
communities are voicing their ideas about censorship, ownership, and
accessibility. These changes offer an exciting opportunity to open up the
dialogue between ideas about curatorial practice and collaboration. This
new course examines the attitudes, knowledge, and skills that underlie this
shift in curatorial role and practice, and develops your ability to:
* appreciate the benefits of inclusive approaches to curatorship
* determine appropriate ways to partner with community in the curatorial
process
* identify and establish ongoing and respectful relationships
* facilitate group processes
* balance issues of preservation, access, perspective, and voice
* recognize and accommodate diverse and dissenting voices
* resolve disputes
* develop policies that provide a framework for partnerships
* keep everything in perspective
Instructor: Dr. Carol Mayer is Curator of Ethnology and Ceramics with the
University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology
Dates: June 12-17, with a preparatory assignment
Please register by: May 15 (late registrations accepted if space permits)
Fee: $589 Canadian funds, credit and non-credit options available
Travel: Victoria is easily accessible from Seattle and Vancouver
Accommodation: Program staff are pleased to provide information on local
B&B, hotel, and on-campus options
COURSE OUTLINE SUMMARY
Monday
* Introduction to each other and course requirements. The class as a
community
* Curatorship - What is it and how has it changed?
* Presentation of pre-course assignments (case studies)
* Defining different types of community - a discussion
Tuesday
* assignment of case study groups
* Collecting practices and community collaboration
* The object and the story - Ways of seeing and listening.
* Documentation - Class presentation and documentation of personal objects.
* Implications of documentation process - questions of accessibility
Wednesday
* Class case studies - identifying the issues and appropriate action
* Censorship - who says you can and who can say you cannnot?
* Video - who is the censor?
* Copyright - concepts of community ownership, ethics and the law
* Visit Open Space Gallery - Discussion about the artist community (speakers
to be confirmed)
Thursday
* How do people learn? How can you write across community boundaries?
(Group activity)
* Community collaboration and programming your exhibition.
* Did they get it? Assessing whether the messages sent in the exhibition
are actually received.
Class case studies - presentation of issues and appropriate action
* pm. Attend opening of AGGV exhibition: ;rapt - An installation by
Kathleen Sellars and Susan Shantz (7.30 pm)
Friday
* Case Study - Voice, ownership, stories - Collaborative project between the
Chinese and Jewish communities in Vancouver (speaker: Roberta Kremer -
director, Holocaust Centre, Vancouver)
* Case Study - Working collaboratively with International Communities - The
Torres Strait. (speaker: Anita Herle - curator, Cambridge University
Museum, UK)
Saturday
* Final presentation of group case studies
* A reality check - Do we see the world differently? What can we actually
apply from this course? How will we know whether we have succeeded?
* Course evaluations
For more information, please contact:
Joy Davis, Program Director
Brenda Weatherston, Program Coordinator
Cultural Resource Management Program
Division of Continuing Studies, University of Victoria
Phone 250-721-8462
FAX 250-721-8774
E-mail [log in to unmask]
Visit our website! www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp
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