HSOC-350: Unfold and Display

The notion of place dominates many discourses around exhibition-making, as well as how the ideas of the artists and the behavior of the audience are shaped. Authors like Tony Bennett and Wendy Shaw have focused on how the exhibition space is created and regulated, while Lucy Lippard and Seth Siegelaub experimented with ephemeral, portable and dematerialized exhibitions. These histories will serve as a platform to study and experiment practices of displaying that privilege the destruction of the exhibition space as a stable form: printable exhibitions, soundscapes, exhibition ephemera and books-as-exhibitions, are examples of how curatorial practice transforms to cope with new urgencies, materialities, temporalities and dimensions of artistic practice. 'Unfold and Display' will be a seminar and a laboratory for curatorial experimentation, where students will meet, interact and propose ways of unfolding and displaying, moving beyond the walls and responding to temporal, political, discursive and economic constraints. We will deal with limitations as potentiality for creative engagement with exhibition practices.