Course detail

Studio II - Environment - winter

FaVU-B2EN-ZAcad. year: 2014/2015

The course focuses on individual students’ artworks and their relation to the environment, society, politics, and culture. It encourages students to develop their own authorial positions in response to the contextual project tasks. It helps them to choose and apply adequate media of their expressions. It teaches them to critically discuss their work in a broader context. The course presents theories of conceptual art. It mediates them a wide range of events in contemporary art and culture in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

15

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. MgA. Barbora Klímová, ArtD.

Department

Environment Studio (AEN)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

In the winter semester of the second year of the bachelor's degree, students will learn to develop and critically evaluate their own artistic work. They are able to freely choose and apply media of their own work. They are familiar with the theory of conceptual art and documentation in art. They are familiar with contemporary cultural events.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of the studied subject.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Presentations, lectures, tutorials, discussions, field trips, study of literature.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

To obtain credits, it is required to submit a completed artistic project, participate in a joint studio program, and edit portfolio of own artistic practice.

Course curriculum

1. definition of the individual artistic project reacting to the topic of documentation in art
2. semester exam project
The studio work is continuously complemented with tutorials within the department or with external experts, with lectures, and field trips to exhibitions, and institutions in relation to the discussed problems. Study of literature and texts related to documentation in art and conceptual art is also an integral part of the course.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Defining the individual art project on the topic of documentation in art; discussing the relation between art and documentation; being familiar with related contemporary cultural events in relation to history and to non-artistic areas.

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

Submission of assigned projects, attendance, communicating about the overview of cultural events.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

DEUTCHE, R. Umění a veřejný prostor. In Stav věcí - Sochy v ulicích. Brno: Dům umění města Brna, 2011, s. 145–173.
FARVER, J. (ed) Global Conceptualism. NYC: Queens Museum of Art, 1999.
HAVRÁNEK, V. et al., The Need to Document. Zürich: JRP Ringier, 2005.
KRAUSS, R. Sochařství v rozšíreném poli. In Stav věcí - Sochy v ulicích. Brno: Dům umění města Brna, 2011, s. 66–72.
KWON, M. Jedno místo za druhým. In Stav věcí - Sochy v ulicích. Brno: Dům umění města Brna, 2011, s. 173–205.
KWON, M. One Place after Another Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2004.
Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny.

Recommended reading

[GUST] The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1999.
ARMLEDER, J. et al., Voids A Retrospective. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2009.
BALDRÁN, Z., HAVRÁNEK, V. (ed) Atlas Transformace. Praha: Tranzit, 2009.
BENJAMIN, W. Dílo a jeho zdroj. Praha: Odeon, 1979.
BEY, H. Dočasná autonomní zóna. Praha: Tranzit, 2004.
BISHOP, C. Artificial Hells, Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectarorship. London : Verso, 2012.
BISHOP, C. (ed) Participation. London: Whitechapel and MIT Press, 2006.
BOURRIAUD, N. Postprodukce. Praha: Tranzit, 2004.
BRADLEY, W., ESCHE, C. (ed) Art and Social Change. London: Tate Publishing, 2008.
CÍSAŘ, K. (ed.), Co je to fotografie? Praha: Herrmann & synové, 2004.
DIDI-HUBERMAN, G. Ninfa moderna (Esej o spadlé draperii). Praha: Fra, 2010.
DIDI-HUBERMAN, G. Před časem. Praha: Barrister & Principal, 2008.
[GUST] Post Ex Sub Dis. Urban Fragmentations and Constructions. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2003.
HAVRÁNEK, V. (ed), Akce slovo pohyb prostor (kat. výst.). Praha: Galerie hlavního města Prahy 1999.
KRIS, E., KURZ, O. Legenda o umělci. Historický pokus. Praha: Arbor vitae, Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze, 2008.
LANDA de, M. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. New York: Zone Books, 2000.
LIPPARD, L. Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
LUCIE-SMITH, E. Movements in Art since 1945. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.
MITCHEL W. Placing Words, Symbols, Space, and the City. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005.
MITCHEL W. Space, Place, and the Infobahn, City of Bits. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999.
NELSON, R., S., SHIFF, R. et al. Kritické pojmy dejín umenia. Bratislava: Slovart, 2004.
PIOTROWSKY, P. In the Shadow of Yalta. Art and the Avant-Garde in Eastern Europe 1945–1989. London: Reaktion Books, 2009.
PIOTROWSKY, P. Prostorový obrat aneb horizontální dějiny umění. In Umění LVI. 2008, č. 5, s. 378–383.
POSPISZYL, T. Srovnávací studie. Praha: Agite/Fra, 2005.
VIDLER, A. The Architectural Uncanny, Essays in the Modern Unhomely, The MIT Press, 1992.
VIDLER, A. Warped Space, Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture, The MIT Press, 2002.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch AEN , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. MgA. Barbora Klímová, ArtD.

Syllabus

Přednášku vede vedoucí ateliéru podle potřeb aktuální výuky.

Seminar

156 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. MgA. Barbora Klímová, ArtD.

Syllabus

Výuka probíhá podle pokynů vedoucího ateliéru a v souladu s individuálními tvůrčími kvalitami studentů.