MA Culture, Criticism and Curation

MA Culture, Criticism and Curation is a course directed towards critical thinking, research, and practice in the fields of culture, curation, art, design, and creative production. To equip practitioners with tools that will enable them to actively find their way through a variety of institutional and cultural situations, the Course offers an overview of cultural history and curatorial theory alongside opportunities to acquire skills in research, writing, curating and production. On this Course we address the present moment and pressing questions faced by cultural producers, policy makers, curators, artists, and researchers. Approached through interdisciplinary and intercultural enquiry, you will learn to engage with the in-between places where new knowledge is developed via an integration of theory and practice. Throughout the Course, we explore with you the ways in which culture, criticism and curation can contribute to change.The curator is positioned as a figure able to act intentionally, bring in agency and make change across a variety of contexts. Curating makes meaning and contributes new, critical perspectives on existing scenarios. The Course asks you to think reflectively – with others – about the forms that art and culture take, identify where and how hegemonies develop, keep hold and challenge them. The Course prioritises interrelations between people as well as ideas and objects, and will help you develop your capacity to collaborate and to work across different networks of practitioners, organisations, and audiences.We encourage you to test and engage with emerging digital technologies to undertake research, experiment with forms, and collaborate equitably. We engage actively with the evolving fields of cultural, critical and curatorial work, and seek to equip you to work professionally in institutional contexts as well as to renegotiate traditionally defined roles. The Course works with you to develop research-led, experimental, creative and critical curatorial practices to enable you to engage with and make an impact in changing situations, in professional work or through further study.

An honours degree in a humanities, social science or art and design subject

Or an equivalent EU/international qualification.