REWORLDING

REWORLDING is the overall project title for a series of five exhibitions across the city of Exeter, curated by students on the MA Curation course at University of Exeter. The project investigates the notion of ‘repair’, reimagining our shared reality in response to current social, political, ecological and technological crises. REWORLDING sets out to question the idea of a single dominant (Western) worldview and the totalising claims of global consumerism, in its place amplifying marginalised human and non-human voices to build sustainable, inclusive and alternative worlds.

Participating artists: Xu Bing, Ye Funa, Faek Rasoul, Kamaran Najm, Hardi Kurda, Baha Yasir, Bzhwen Jamal, Ahmad Najm, Awaz Suad, Sarina Panahideh, Hoshang Bahjat, Robyn Bamford, Ashanti Hare, Emma Saffy Wilson, Ella Yolande, Sam Goodwin, Agnieszka Eden, Devon Federation of Women’s Institutes, Alison Murray, Mandy Griffiths, Amy Brushaber, Galawezh Mohammed Sabir, Niga Salam, Catherine Waite, Terry Cann, Tricia Zakreski, Sophie Pettit.

ENDURANCE, curated by Niga Salam, is an exhibition of nine Kurdish artists' work, exploring everyday resilience in the face of on-going conflict

Ways of (Machine) Seeing, curated by Leixinyun Huang and Yifan Yang, reflects on the ways in which digital culture has changed our thinking, communication and self-awareness

When the Earth Holds Us Quietly, curated by Indie Hansford, Theadora Perignon and Laila Ross, explores ecological reconnection and regeneration through art, treating the Earth as a living witness

Parish Maps: Then, Now, Next, curated by Rebecca Wood, revisits the influential Parish Maps project developed by arts and environmental charity, Common Ground, reimagined in the context of contemporary Exeter

Phantom Threads, curated by Kaia Brushaber, Liv Pattimore and Moyan Zhang, investigates how craft carries traces of labour, care, gender and memory through everyday making, matrilineal inheritance and embodied experience.

MA Curation: Contemporary Art and Cultural Management is a one-year post-graduate taught course at University of Exeter, combining academic rigour and critical debate with professional training and practical experience. The programme is transnational in focus, encouraging an understanding of the social, cultural and economic issues that surround the contemporary art world. We think critically about the relationship between the local and international in different regions of the world, the art market and non-profit spaces, and the decolonisation of exhibition programmes and art fairs. As well as exploring the theoretical approaches associated with curation, there is a professional practice strand focusing on production skills and cultural management. 

MA Curation students attend regular field trips to biennials, exhibitions and art institutions as well as undertaking a six-week professional placement, tailored to their curatorial interests. Host institutions for the internships have included Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town; SongEun Art Space, Seoul; Galerie Hoangbeli, Paris; Frieze Art Fair, the Government Art Collection, Saatchi Gallery and the Whitechapel Gallery in London; along with regional museums and galleries in the South West of England. Students are also eligible to apply for the annual British Council Fellowships at the Venice Biennale.