[artinfo] Launch of PhD in Practice in Curating

[Art & Education]

PhD in Practice in Curating

Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
Pfingstweidstrasse 96
8005 Zürich
Switzerland

<https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25533&L=172422&F=H>www.curating.org
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		The Department of Art at the 
University of Reading in collaboration with the 
Postgraduate Programme in Curating is offering a 
new doctoral program for research in and as 
curatorial and/or artistic practice. Research 
students are enrolled at the University of 
Reading and the Postgraduate Programme in 
Curating is hosting a research group and offers 
opportunities for teaching and lecturing in 
Higher Education. The new PhD programme 
specializes in offering established curators, 
artists, art critics and designers from all 
disciplines the critical framework to focus on 
specific curatorial and cultural research topics 
in order to earn a Doctorate from the University 
of Reading through a combined theoretical and 
practical approach.

The Research Platform aims to provide a 
cooperative environment with a decidedly 
cross-disciplinary and international bent based 
on an association of two outstanding Programmes, 
the Department of Art at the University of 
Reading and the Postgraduate Program in Curating 
(MAS/CAS) at the Zurich University for the Arts. 
The program responds to recent changes in the 
processes of the production of culture and a 
shift in the organization of work processes 
throughout society. Within this shift, individual 
areas of action are coming together in new 
meta-levels, such as networks and knowledge 
transfer. The programme aims to address and to 
question the significant changes affecting 
cultural production. It seeks to provide a 
productive environment for participants to 
discuss and develop their research, to critically 
reflect on the issues involved and to transform 
their own respective positions as producers, 
agents, designers, artists, archivists, and 
conveyors of those economies, and the politics, 
aesthetics and effects related to them. The 
programme emphasizes the reflection of curatorial 
and artistic methodologies and prospects of arts 
production, its practitioners, and its audiences.

The practice-based PhD programme is designed for 
a three year duration. Part time is is supposed 
to be finalized in five years. Participants are 
enrolled at the Department of Art at the 
University of Reading and they should be prepared 
to take part in seminars and communal meetings in 
Zurich and Reading. Over the course of the three 
years participants will develop and realise their 
projects supported by the academic and artistic 
team of co-participants and faculty.

Participants will be supported to pursue and 
develop dissertation work resulting in a 
curatorial/artistic project and a written 
component displaying a strong emphasis on 
methodological reflexivity and documentation. 
Moreover, participants are expected to take an 
active part in organizing the programme 
(coordinating workshops, guest lectures, 
conferences, exhibitions, screenings, etc.). 
After successful completion and submission of the 
PhD, a Doctorate will be awarded by the 
University of Reading.

Participants will be able to engage with the 
ongoing international public programmes connected 
to the 
<https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25533&L=172424&F=H>Postgraduate 
Programme in Curating Zurich, and with the 
independent 
<https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25533&L=172753&F=H>OnCurating 
magazine.

Finalised candidates
Dr Omar Kholeif, Univ.-Prof. Mag. PhD Elke 
Krasny, Dr Allan Siegel, Dr. Avi Feldman

Entry requirements
Requirements for admission to the PhD in Practice 
program are a degree (MA, MFA or diploma) from a 
recognized University or Academy, and the 
submission of a portfolio and/or a written 
project proposal (to be written in English). 
Applicants who are already engaged in an artistic 
or academic career are encouraged to apply. 
Applications will be made directly to the 
University of Reading.

Contact
Please contact the 
<https://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=2690&N=25533&L=172752&F=H>Department 
of Art for further information: 
<mailto:d.i.richter at reading.ac.uk>dorothee.richter at zhdk.ch
Prof. Dr. Dorothee Richter is Director of the 
Postgraduate Programme in Curating, ZhdK and 
Profossor in Contemporary Curating at the 
University of Reading.