Dear List, I wanted to pick up on the references kindly suggested by Aileen Derieg and take them forward. > Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 15:42:12 +0200 > From: Aileen Derieg <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: theme of the month: education and documentation > > the idea of "critical curating" in conjunction with the exhibition in > Linz with Stella Rollig as guest host on Discordia. That discussion is > archived under: > http://www.discordia.us/scoop/story/2003/10/19/13513/297.html On Discordia, Stella Rollig mentions the " ... reasonable suspicion against curated institutional critique ..." and an interesting discussion ensues about the responsibility of artist/curator models becoming institutionalised versus the romantic but often invisible alternative freelance model. This issue of the 'freelance model' is also picked up in Sarah Cook's PhD research <http://my.sunderland.ac.uk/web/schools/adm/research/artsdes_research/ r_studes/sarah_cook>. Given that most recent graduates from 'critical' curating courses, and most 'new media' curators are likely to be working as freelancers rather than institutionalised curators, is the 'freelance model' given enough attention on curating courses? Yours, Beryl