This project has been designed for Professional Practice so that you can collaboratively curate student artworks into group exhibitions using a variety of presentation strategies and site-specific locations. In this project you may experience working collaboratively with a variety of peers, lecturers, professional staff and Arts Industry professionals. You will be required to collaboratively curate a group exhibition of your work and that of your peers. Your lecturers will give you instructions on how to do this in the Blackboard site for your course.
You may be divided into groups to:
- Nominate a core selection team of 3 or 4 students who may be the curatorial selection team OR
- Make all selections as a group
- Outline a conceptual premise or theme for your exhibition and ask your group to make a new work especially in response to this idea or you can select works already made during the year
- Consider themes, for example, works related to abstraction, or the body, or the environment or technology or pop culture, the landscape etc. OR you may wish to consider media, colour, scale, subject matter, preliminary drawings, videos, animations, projections, digital works, sound etc.
Select as much artwork as you like remembering to include all artists in your group
You are the curators it is up to you. You may wish to produce an on line exhibition, or a virtual online exhibition a blog, a catalogue.
WIL feedback on your curated exhibitions / installations / presentations
The group exhibitions of works will be critiqued by your lecturers and student peers in Work Integrated Learning group tutorials that will have a mixture of academic staff. The aim of these sessions is to provide you with feedback that enables you to understand important issues in exhibition design and installation as well as constructive feedback on how to improve your work and move forward in a positive direction with your practice. Some main strategies that will be discussed may include:
- a curatorial premise
- criteria for selection of works from within the student group.
- criteria for the selection of a space, and how you adapted to the spaces
- strategies for installing and displaying work in a diverse range of spaces and locations
- strategies for documenting the exhibition.
If you are involved in a Group WIL Exhibition Project your group must present:
Assessment outcomes
- A Curatorial Premise or range of ideas – Each group should select works from their group and discuss a curatorial premise for the works you have selected.
- An Exhibition Statement -You must prepare an exhibition press statement of 250 words that represents the entire group exhibition.
- A critical review for an article in the press. (About one half to a full A4 Page)
- A strategy for identifying the artworks, a standard practice is to produce gallery wall cards identifying and cataloguing works or a map, or catalogue of works, this is up to you.
- Documentation of the entire exhibition and provide images to staff through an ePortfolio /Blackboard. This should include installation shots and individual photos of each work.You may use the format of a collated set of WIL Feedback Forms to show each artist’s work in the exhibition.
- A poster and or an invitation advertising the exhibition. Hard copy and online
Optional
- You may wish to video the works
- You may wish to produce a catalogue or website, disk or blog