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Jan 15, 2025
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ARHS 3355 - Exhibiting Cultures: Curating and Interpreting the Arts of the Global South
Credits: 3
Explores ways that audiences and curators co-create the poetics and practices of exhibition display, with a particular emphasis on the arts and cultures of the Global South (especially Africa and the Afro-Atlantic). Students discuss, interpret, and research cultural objects and the histories of colonialism, cultural exchange, and ethnographic research that underpin the ways that curators conduct their work. Analyzes how museums place the sacred and precious objects of cultural groups within an exhibition context, and considers how exhibition design determines the improvisational possibilities for visitors to position their bodies in relation to these objects. Discusses the importance of text and visuality in curating, and how exhibitions “perform” even as they evoke the previous lives of objects in relation to the experiences of the viewing public. Students learn skills and best practices for curating and interpreting the arts of the Global South in ethical, accessible, and culturally respectful ways. (*updated* 9/11/2023)
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