Course detail

Art research

FaVU-1UV-ZAcad. year: 2011/2012

Art research focusing on the body and the media based on a collaboration between the students and teachers of the FFA and the Faculty of Social Sciences of Masaryk University in Brno. The seminar is led by two teoreticians and an artist. The theoreticians are: the sociologist (Kateřina Lišková from FSS), the art theoretician (Lenka Sýkorová - FaVU]. The artist, Lenka Klodová from FaVU, processes topics related to the art projects of the students and to sociology and art theory in a mode which is a hybrid between art and theory.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

- Students from each college will be able to see the subject of their interest through the optics of the partner school
- art students will learn about the possibility of applying a systematic approach to their art. Such an approach is typical for the PhD. level, hence students who will have had experience with this seminar might decide to enter the PhD. program
- the seminar should lead to practical results. Their form will be determined by the topics chosen for processing. (Articles published in Umělec or on www.artalkweb.wordpress.com is one possibility, a regurarly edited website or a hybrid exhibition are other. )
- the seminar should teach students to manage their research/artwork (grants, corret documentation)
- as the issues of the body and the media stand in the centre of attention, the seminar will attemprt ot connecting students with other subjects, museums, NGOs, research subjects, etc.

Prerequisites

We prefer students who base their art on similar principles as those stated in the course description.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Exam based on the submited project.

Course curriculum

Lectures and practical output by the students.
1. intro to problematics: some methods of sociological research, examples of projects on the border between art and scientific research
2. active search for research topics
3. gradual works with the topics, establishing fo rthe working groups, work in the terrain, gathering of the material
4. presentation preparation

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

- connecting the FFA with related disciplines at FSS and all humanities at the MU
- teaching students about the possibilities of art-based research
- by comparing approaches of the students of sociology at FSS, leanrning to understand the specifics of thinking and solving problems through art
- a survey of basic research methodologies
- further possibilities of applying the research results: articles, books, visualization of the research, grants
- team colaboration (students - teoreticians with students - artists)

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance in seminars is mandatory-.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BARSˇA, P. (2002). Panstvi´ cˇloveˇka a touha zˇeny: feminismus mezi psychoanaly´zou a poststrukturalismem. Praha: Sociologicke´ nakl.
Bourriaud, Nicolas: Postprodukce, Tranzit 2004
HARRINGTON, A. (2006). Moderni´ socia´lni´ teorie: za´kladni´ te´mata a mysˇlenkove´ proudy. Praha, Porta´l.
Management umění, ed. Marta Smolíková, VŠUP, Praha, 2008
Médium kurátor: Role kurátora v současném umění, ed. David Korecký, Agite Fra, Praha, 2006/9
Mirzoeff, Nicolase: An Introduction to Visual Culture, 1999
Sturken, Marita, Cartwright, Lisa, Studia Vizuální kultury, Portál, Praha 2009

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch ATD , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch ATD , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer