Course detail

Art after 2000 (winter]

FaVU-2U2000-ZAcad. year: 2011/2012

This course will consist of an equal proportion of lectures and seminars. The lectures will focus on current topics in contemporary art, important personalities and events (international exhibitions, fairs, biennals, etc), and the current developmnets in the institutional management of art. The seminars will consist of student paper presentation connected to the issues dealt with at the lectures. During the semester, students will choose the topic of their term paper which they will write during the follow-up summer course.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Mgr. Jan Zálešák, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will have a better knowlege of the development f art after 2000 (personalities, institution).

Prerequisites

Students must have a god knowledge of art after 1945.

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

Oral exam.

Course curriculum

1. Czech art after 2000 (institutional stagnation - regional museums are no longer managed by the ministry of culture, but by the regional governments; ten years of National Gallery under the rule of Milan Knizak, the double Prague biennale; new art competitions; galleries run by artists; development in art education and art criticism)
2. Art of the last decade: important personalities
3. local specificity
4. new institutionalization: the biennale boom, its consequences
5. the paedagogical turn in art (from artifacts to discourse - the supplementary programs, discussions, lecture blocs, etc). curators and artists getting closer
6. specific art or general creativity? Old questions about the borders of art in a new cloak. DIY aesthetics, street art and its socializing vatiants (guerilla gardening, guerilla knitting], the erosion of the notion of "original authorship" in the field of digital media, the transfer fo art strategies (such as remake, apropriace, remix, re-editace…] onto the level of user tactics
7. is everything an installation? Installation as a genre, installation aesthetics (various trends and regimes after 2000)

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Students will have a good orientation in current art issues.

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

Attendance at lectures is not mandatory.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Barbara VANDERLINDEN – Elena FILIPOVIC (eds.), The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2005 (EN)
Boris GROYS, Going Public. New York – Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2010. (EN)
Miwon KWON, One Place After Another. Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, Cambridge, MA – Londýn: MIT Press 2002 (EN)
Ondřej HORÁK (ed.), Místa počinu. Praha: Komunikační prostor Školská 28, 2010. (CS)
Paul O’NEILL & Mick WILSON (Eds.), Curating and the Educational Turn. London: Open Editions a De Appel Arts Centre, 2010. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Master's

    branch APD , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch ATD , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AGD2 , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AGD1 , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AKG , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AEN , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AIN , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AM3 , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AM2 , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AM1 , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AS2 , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AS1 , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AVI , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch APE , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AMU , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Mgr. Jan Zálešák, Ph.D.