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Museum Curating Now: Behind the Scenes at Tate

16 January – 26 March 2020
black and white self portrait of the artist holding smaller versions of the self portrait slightly rotated

Dora Maurer Seven Twists 1979. Courtesy Tate Photography

Discover what contemporary curating means in an international arts institution

What is the role of a curator? What are the decisions, strategies and approaches that inform and shape the work of curators today? How do they negotiate the wide range of social, political and economic factors in which they operate?

Over the course of eleven weeks, learn about the ways in which curators at Tate develop, manage and engage with art and a collection, exhibitions and events programmes. Led by independent curator Lynton Talbot, this course also considers how a curator’s work responds to diverse institutional and non-institutional influences, as well as current global social and economic contexts.

Sessions reference current exhibitions including Dora Maar, Steve McQueen, Andy Warhol and Dóra Maurer, working with a museum collection, planning for the future and expanding audiences. We also explore the relationships developed and negotiated between curators, artists and other partners.

Throughout the course Tate staff present on their current work in Q&A sessions with participants, while readings and visits to galleries highlight key issues and themes of contemporary curating practices.

No prior knowledge of art history or museum studies is necessary.

Biography

Lynton Talbot

Lynton Talbot is an independent curator and writer based in London, working with artists to produce exhibitions, text and platforms for performance. He has started non-profit spaces in both London and Berlin and has independently curated exhibitions in commercial galleries, public institutions and project spaces internationally and across London. These include exhibitions at Lisson Gallery, The Whitechapel, South London Gallery, Chelsea Space, Flat Time House and Auto Italia among others. In partnership with Hana Noorali, he is this years recipient of the David Robert's Art Foundation Curators Series #12 award and will produce an exhibition and publication in London in 2019. Talbot is also the founding Director of Parrhesiades, a multi-platform project space for artists working with language either written, spoken or otherwise performed. He is a sometime participant in OFFSHORE, an itinerant performance company and pedagogical structure, initiated by artist Cally Spooner in 2017, which has so far gathered at NTU CCA Singapore, Stanley Picker Gallery (Kingston) in collaboration with CREMP (Centre for Research in European Modern Philosophy), Playground Festival at STUK Kunstencentrum and M-Museum (Leuven, Belgium), Bilbao BAD Festival, La Fundición (Spain), the Centre for National Dance (Paris), The Swiss Institute (New York), Serpentine Gallery and Whitechapel Gallery (both London). Talbot has taught at Goldsmiths University, The School of the Damned, The Architectural Association and across University of the Arts London. He is currently Senior Lecturer for Chelsea College of Art's Curating and Collections MA, a member of UAL's Collections Committee and a Trustee of The Chelsea Arts Club Trust. He has contributed to various publications such as Art Monthly, Artworks London and Art Review Asia.

In partnership with the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London.

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16 January – 26 March 2020

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