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Collecting35089/4178/1819/1/26
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Collecting

35089/4178/1819/1/26
Academiejaar 2018-19
Komt voor in:
  • Postgraduaat Curatorial Studies, trajectschijf 1
Dit is een enkelvoudig opleidingsonderdeel.
Studieomvang: 6 studiepunten
Gewicht: 6,00
Totale studietijd: 190,00 uren
Mogelijke grensdata voor leerkrediet: 01.12.2018 (Academiejaar)
Men kan dit opleidingsonderdeel niet volgen binnen een
  • examencontract (met het oog op het behalen van een creditbewijs).
  • examencontract (met het oog op het behalen van een diploma).
Men kan dit opleidingsonderdeel enkel mits aparte toelating volgen binnen een creditcontract.
Docenten: Hudek Antony, Zonnenberg Nathalie
Onderwijstalen: Engels
Kalender: Academiejaar

Omschrijving Onderwijsorganisatie (lijst)

Onderwijs-, leer- en evaluatieactiviteiten
Begeleid zelfstandig/extern werk5,00 uren
Hoorcollege20,00 uren
Werkcollege15,00 uren
Zelfstudie150,00 uren

Omschrijving Onderwijsorganisatie (tekst)

Lecture, seminar (case studies), group discussion, excursion, literature study and individual research, assignment.

Omschrijving Doelstellingen

Development of a coherent and substantiated view on the management of a contemporary art collection; with attention both to the internal and external modi operandi of the collection that lead to its irreducible particularity. Explication of the insights in the conceptual and practical consequences of that view. Development of the ability to realize in practice that view and these insights.

Omschrijving Inhoud

Fundamental to this course is the question to what extent an acclaimed and meaningful (museum) collection entails a solid form of museum policy or politics. Historically, the museum is essentially oriented towards encyclopedic completeness, neutrality, and limitlessness. While in the age of modernity the ideal was cherished of a total, limitless freedom from the very beginning, the museum became the emblematic modern institution and epitomization of what we may call “the machinery of the modern gaze.” Yet, the policy of an open, public, and democratic museum institution can only be maintained if it communicates its outer limits – the criteria of its inevitable exclusivity – as clearly as possible. A viable museum and collection policy should thus also register and converse the limits of its freedom continually to open up the discussion with others.
Today, globalized markets, mass media and the internet have become the terrains best suited, it would seem, to mitigate the modernist longing for universality and totality. Current museum policies are subject to strong social pressures to incorporate the characteristics and laws of these domains. To many actors in and outside the art world the contemporary museum should be the place of a boundless inclusiveness, both in terms of the art on display, and the audiences it activates. Within this field of tension the challenge of a consistent museum and collection policy is to find a balance between the actuality of the museum’s individual, specific situation on the one hand, and the abstractions and global aspects of the contemporary (art) world on the other. There are no ready-made formulas to find such a balance.

Particular points of interest are:
- The approach to the irreducible particularity of a contemporary art collection is elucidated by studying specific cases, and by positions and reflections of leading protagonists on collection policies, or by visiting collections under their guidance.
- The impact of mass media on the functioning and reception of art collections.
- The inherent qualities of the museum as prototypical modern institution.
- The specific form of scientific knowledge and research that may only be developed by closely dealing with a collection, through a number of case studies, and, subsequently, the differences and similarities between the status of an ‘artwork’ and that of a ‘document’.
- The question as to how museums of contemporary art may fulfill their task of collecting “masterpieces” within the current context of the art world.
- The role and position of the artist (or estate) in the development of strategies concerning acquisition, conservation, research and presentation of works in a collection.

Omschrijving Begincompetenties (tekst)

Meeting the programme’s admission requirements.

Omschrijving Eindcompetenties (tekst)

- Having knowledge of current insights in collection strategies, and collection and museum policy.
- Having an awareness of the social and historical responsibilities of actors in the museum world.
- Being able to (self-)critically reflect: students are aware of different views on museum policy within the socio-economic and cultural contexts.

Omschrijving Begeleiding

Group sessions and individual feedback (by digital appointment)

Omschrijving Evaluatie (tekst)

End-of-term assessment: paper assignment.

Retake during the second examination period is possible

Assignment:

Students build up a case for the (fictitious) acquisition of a work in/ for a collection of their choice, thereby studying the general and specific logic of (the history of) this collection, (governmental) collection policies and public visibility.
Dit opleidingsonderdeel wordt gequoteerd op 20 (tot op een geheel getal).
Tweede examenkans: wel mogelijk.

Omschrijving Studiematerialen (tekst): Verplicht

Primary and secondary literature and other sources.

Omschrijving Studiekosten

Learning materials: digital
Excursions: transportation + admission: max. 25 EUR
Estimated total: max. 25 EUR

Omschrijving Trefwoorden

Collecting, Collection, Collection building, Collection policy, Museum policy, Museum collections, Art market

Omschrijving Volgtijdelijkheid (VT)

Op dit opleidingsonderdeel is er geen volgtijdelijkheid van toepassing.