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4 December 2015, 18:00 – ZHdK – Michael Birchall: Shifting power: The Curator as Producer in Socially Engaged Art. The role of the curator as a scholar and keeper of collections has all but faded away. Instead, the contemporary art curator is rarely an expert on a particular period, but rather an anthropologist, a reporter, a sociologist, an epistemologist, an author, an NGO representative or an observer of the internet. The expanse in curating and an interest in socially engaged art has transformed how institutions, artists and curators interact with communities. This talk will address what can be learned from curatorial production when it enters the social.

5 December 2015, 11:00-17:00 – Kunsthalle Zurich – 
Curating: Curatorial Writing and Research Module with Michael G. Birchall. 
Drop by and participate in one of our lively classroom discussions, taking place at Kunsthalle Zurich and see for yourself how curating can be taught. The role of the curator is challenging and requires sharp research skills, which can be implemented in curatorial writing on a variety of topics relating to art and society. In this module we look at the relevant skills needed in today’s curatorial practice, by looking at a selection of texts and writing our own. In conjunction with They printed It! postgraduate students will use material in the exhibition on ephemera to produce short texts for one of their writing assignments. You’ll have the chance to produce your own text and develop your writing in a new direction. Reading material will be provided. see Programme alongside They printed it.