Czech

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

Students must have a god knowledge of art after 1945.

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Lectures and students' presentations followed with discussions are alternated during a semester.

Assesment on the scale 0 to 100 points consists of two parts: compulsory presentation during the semester (0 to 20 points), written essay of 9000 characters minimum (21 to 80 points).

1. Bienalisation of art. Why biennials are so important today. What are their roots? How do they differ (Venice, Havana, Kassel, shifting Manifesta)? How are they related to the art fairs?
2. An archival impulse / a historiographical turn. Artist as a researcher interested in the past, memory, and archives in general and the specific interest of contemporary artist in the questions of modernity, its ideas and formal language. Ostalgia - culturally specific version of the more general historiographical turn in contemporary art.
3. Is everything an installation? Installation as a genre, installation aesthetics (various trends and regimes after 2000).
4. After New Media. From net.art to post-internet (and beyond).
5. Return of the Object - object oriented ontology and contemporary art; art and anthropocene.

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A goal of this course id to expand students' orientation in contemporary art: its important representatives, events, and trends.

Controlled attendance (3 absences accepted).

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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)
Claire BISHOP, Installation Art, London: Tate Publishing, 2011. (EN)
Elena FILIPOVIC – Marieke VAN HAL – Solveig ØVSTEBO (eds.), The Biennial Reader, Hatje Cantz, 2010. (EN)
Jan ZÁLEŠÁK, Minulá budoucnost. Brno – Praha: FaVU VUT v Brně – tranzit, 2013. (CS)
Miwon KWON, One Place After Another. Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, Cambridge, MA – Londýn: MIT Press 2002 (EN)
Nicolas BOURRIAUD, Postprodukce, Praha: Tranzit, 2004. (CS)
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)
Václav JANOŠČÍK (ed.), Objekt. Praha: Galerie Kvalitář, 2015. (CS)
Zbyněk BALADRÁN – Vít HAVRÁNEK – Věra KREJČOVÁ (eds.), Atlas transformace. Praha: Tranzit, 2009. (CS)