In 2022, the Vector Association, in partnership with the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Art (ICMA) at the George Enescu National University of Arts, Iași (UNAGE Iași) and EARN (European Artistic Research Network), Curatorial Studies WG5, published the bilingual volume Learning by Curating: Current Trajectories in Critical Curatorial Education, edited by Cătălin Gheorghe, as part of the editorial series Vector – Critical Research in Context.

After the educational and curatorial turn, as progressive moments in promoting dissociative diversity of pluri-contemporary cultural practices, an urgent problem in reactivating cultural action would be (re)considering the critical trajectories and conditional contexts of curatorial education. Without claiming to outline an analysis para-frame of the new spirit of curatorship that lies in store in the most immediate future, this book proposes instead the crossing of a mediating space of some current visions, perspectives and actions in the field of curatorial studies carried out in higher art education, with a focus on the European context, with a case study as an exception in the American context.

The structure of the authorial contributions is generated around the conception issues of the intersectional singularity of each context of (in)formation and development of the (master, postgraduation or doctoral) curatorial study programme (educational narrative), of policies (frames and trajectories), of curriculum (research actions), of method application (practising modalities) and of project run (as case studies). The presentation of each specific curatorial study programme (rather from the point of view of the philosophy of the curatorial, of the program conception and production than from the perspective of the formal academic pedagogical articulation) is introduced by each author through a personal view of “curatorial education” (as a contemporary dimension of art education).

Vector – Critical Research in Context is an experimental publication [intentionally left undefined] based on an open editorial concept, alternatively applied as “a book of artistic/curatorial research”, “a catalogue of critical art”, “an experimental artist’s edition”, “a critical reader” […].

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Editorial Series: Vector – Critical Research in Context

Edition: Bilingual (English / Romanian)

Editor: Cătălin Gheorghe

Authors: Beatrice von Bismarck, Leire Vergara, Steven Henry Madoff, Dorothee Richter, Ronald Kolb, Laura Herman, Anne Szefer Karlsen, Trine Friis Sørensen, Geoff Cox, Sofia Victorino, Nayia Yiakoumaki

Translations: Dana Bădulescu, Oana-Maria Franțescu, Ileana Ocneanu

Graphic Design: Lavinia German

Partners: Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Art (ICMA), George Enescu National University of Arts, Iași (UNAGE Iași) and EARN (European Artistic Research Network), Curatorial Studies WG5

Published by: Vector Association

Publishing House: Artes (UNAGE Iași) and ArtMonitor (Universitatea din Göteborg)

ISBN: 978-606-547-510-6 (Artes Publishing House), 978-91-985172-5-5 (print), 978-91-985172-4-8 (pdf)