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ARHT6932: Ways of Curating: Exhibitions and Display
2025 unit information
Exhibitions are the key medium through which art is displayed and interpreted as a prominent and diverse part of contemporary culture. This unit engages with current exhibitions in Sydney art museums and art spaces to interrogate textual, theoretical, and exhibition-based strategies. Students will critically engage with ways of thinking about curating from decolonisation, globalisation and communities, to historical, narrative, biographical, feminist, queer and activist models as they relate to current exhibitions in situ. A range of curatorial appraches will be analysed alongside historical and current art exhibition critique.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Art History |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate a strong understand of exhibition curatorial strategies
- LO2. Articulate critical analysis of exhibition making through written and verbal communication
- LO3. Undertake detailed research and articulate complex ideas
- LO4. Understand the role of exhibition making in contemporary culture at the intersection of art, curating exhibitions, historical and contemporary critical reception
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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