Course detail

Action Media for Exchange Students - Summer

FaVU-MEES-SAcad. year: 2023/2024

The course is organized as a research on action media. It is structured according to a selection of significant themes as they arrived during XX and XXI Century.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Entry knowledge

Genal interest in action media and performance art. The ability to work with academic texts and resources in English.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The credit is awarded under these conditions: attendance + a presentation of the seminar paper (15-20 min.) including visual documentation – projection; content of the paper either derives from the topics discussed during the semester or it may even correspond with a topic of semestral, or final degree work in the studio where a student is based. The seminar paper is also submitted in digital form.
Total of at least 50% of the attendance is expected (possible reasoned lower attendance can be substituted by the elaboration of the additional seminar paper submitted in examination period).

Aims

The main objective of the course is to acquaint with key action artists and their significant artworks.
Student will be able to: - identify and summarize the important features of individual works and the collective action art movements; - Identify and describe current domestic and foreign artistic trends in the action art; - to compare and highlight the differences in the attitudes of individual artists; - to apply the basic terminology of the field to specific works of art; - analyze current trends in the field of action art; - describe the means used to implement a specific work of action art.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

GOLDBERG, RoseLee. Performance art: from futurism to the present. 3rd ed. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011. World of art. ISBN 978-0500204047. (EN)
GOLDBERG, RoseLee. Performance: live art since 1960. New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1998. ISBN 9780810943605. (EN)
HENRI, Adrian. Total art: environments, happenings, and performance. New York, N.Y. [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr, 1974. ISBN 0195199340. (EN)
MARTEL, Richard. Art Action, 1958-1998. Québec: Éditions Intervention, 2001. ISBN 2-920500-19-8. (EN)
MORGANOVÁ, Pavlína. Czech action art: happenings, actions, events, land art, body art and performance art behind the iron curtain. Prague: Karolinum, 2014. ISBN 978-80-246-2317-7. (EN)
Schimmel, Paul & Stiles, Kristine. Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979. London: Thames and Hudson, 1998. ISBN 0500280509 (EN)
WARR, Tracey. a Amelia. JONES. The artist's body. Abridged, rev. and updated [ed.]. New York, NY: Phaidon, 2012. ISBN 9780714863931. (EN)

Recommended reading

BISHOP, Claire. Participation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. Documents of contemporary art series. ISBN 9780262524643. (EN)
FUSCO, Coco. Corpus delecti: performance art of the Americas. New York: Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0415194547. (EN)
HOPKINS, David. After modern art: 1945-2000. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 019284234x. (EN)
HUSHEGYI, Gábor a Zsolt SÕRÉS. Transart communication: performance & multimedia art : Studio erté 1987-2007. [1.vyd.]. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2008. ISBN 978-807149-975-6. (EN)
RECKITT, Helena. a Peggy. PHELAN. Art and feminism. Abridged, revised, and updated. London: Phaidon, 2012. ISBN 9780714863917. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme FAAD Master's 2 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme ZST-BX Bachelor's

    branch ZST , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme ZST-NX Master's

    branch ZST , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller

Syllabus

1. ACTION (in an environment) – CONSTRUCTION / DECONSTRUCTION
- NEO REALISM, POP ART, HAPPENINGS, Female Agenda / Message & Media,
- Indian Movement & Border Art, Underground & Neoism & Anarchism, Perversion & Punk,

2. NARRATIVE (in society) – COMPOSITION / DECOMPOSITION
- POP CULTS, Theater Alternatives, Action Staging, Identity Representations,
- Media Show / Style & Manner, Market Show / Kitsch & Exclusivity,

3. COMMUNICATION AND CONTEXT – The World of Art / The Artistic World
- Law & Censorship / Fuck Art, Feminism, Politics & Social Intervention,
- Activism & Participation, Hacking & Tactical Media, Eco & Bio Art,

4. COMPLEX SYSTEMS – philosophy, spirituality / lifestyle
- FUTURISM, AVANTGARDE, SURREALISM, BAUHAUS, DADA & ANTI ART,
- ANTHROPOSOPHY & FIU, Informal- Zero- Impossible- & Theater of Death,
- Poor- Laboratory- Theater of Participation & Sources, Stalker, Psychomagic & Panic Therapy,
- FLUXUS – US & Europe, BLACK MARKET – Movement & International,

5. CZECH ACTION ART of XX. Century untill 1989
- DADA, Interwar AVANTGARDE, SURREALIST Group & RA, Postwar - Action Poetry,
- 60’s – Happenings & Events, 70’s – Underground & Body Art & Concept Art & Land Art,
- 80’s – Alternative Performances & Resistance, Perestroika & Velvet Revolution,

6. CZECH ACTION ART after 1989
- 90’s Generation: Individual Freedom & Female Emancipation, Performance Art Festivals
- New Milenium: Groups & Cooperation, Gender Issues & Activism.

Details: https://performance.ffa.vutbr.cz/en/media_action/

Seminar

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller