The Valletta 2018 Curatorial School is a one-week intensive programme featuring leading curators and experts from major international arts and academic institutions. The course includes daily lectures for the whole group and workshops for smaller groups of students. The theme for this year’s Curatorial School is ‘Social practices in contemporary art and curating’, which will focus on artistic and curatorial practices which engage directly with audiences or specific groups of people. Social practice art is typically collaborative, performative and interdisciplinary, bringing together various fields like ethnography, community arts, activism and experimental forms of curating. Presentations by individual speakers and workshops will deal with the following topics, amongst others:

• How might the curator produce projects that include participatory elements and manifest in the museum over a period of time?
• How can political involvement within and beyond institutions be formulated and staged with the aim to stimulate social change?
• How can we build a collective understanding of a territory when territories are fractured?
• How can curators activate and intervene in real-life contexts?
• How can the curatorial account for multiple sites of contact?
• How can art practice intersect with politics and activism meaningfully?

Further your curatorial career through insightful lectures and professional networking opportunities. The programme includes daily interactive workshops.