Course detail

Contemporary Art in Local Contexts 1

FaVU-4CALCAcad. year: 2024/2025

The course takes form of sessions with invited speakers, visits to art events, and field trips to museums and galleries. Students learn about how art institutions operate and examine structures that sustain them. Students familiarize themselves with life at the faculty and get acquainted with the art scene in Brno and beyond. The aim of the course is to introduce students to the local art networks and encourage their participation in them.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Barbora Šedivá, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Offered to foreign students

The home faculty only

Entry knowledge

None.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Credits awarded on the basis of participation in seminar sessions, field trips and other activities organized by the course. Attendance of more than 70% is required.
The course takes form of sessions with invited speakers, visits to art events, and field trips to museums and galleries. Dates and venues are announced at the beginning of the semester. Attendance of more than 70% is required.

Aims

The aim of the course is to offer students an insight into the inner workings of local art institutions and to introduce them to the art scene in Brno and in the Czech/Czecho-Slovak region.
Upon completion of the course, students are acquainted with the local art networks and know how to make use of them.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Bishop, Claire, and Dan Perjovschi. 2014. Radical Museology: Or, What's 'Contemporary' in Museums of Contemporary Art? London: Koenig. (EN)
Bradley, Will, and Charles Esche. 2007. Art and Social Change: A Critical Reader. London: Tate Publishing. Foster, Hal. 2011. The Art-Architecture Complex. London and New York: Verso. (EN)
Gielen, Pascal, ed. 2013. Institutional Attitudes: Instituting Art in a Flat World. Amsterdam: Valiz. (EN)
Hlavajova, Maria, and Simon Sheikh. 2016. Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989. Utrecht and Cambridge: basis vor actuele kunst and MIT Press. (EN)
Kolb, Lucie, and Gabriel Flückiger, eds. 2013. (New) Institution(alism). Oncurating.org. https://www.on-curating.org/files/oc/dateiverwaltung/issue-21/PDF_to_Download/ONCURATING_Issue21_A4.pdf (EN)
Möntmann, Nina. 2006. Art and its Institutions: Current Conflicts, Critique and Collaborations. London: Black Dog Publishing. (EN)
O'Doherty, Brian. 1999. Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space. Berkeley: University of California Press. (EN)
Steyerl, Hito. 2017. Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War. London and New York: Verso. (EN)
Zuidervaart, Lambert. 2010. Art in Public: Politics, Economics, and a Democratic Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme FAAD Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
  • Programme ZST-BX Bachelor's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme ZST-NX Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

16 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Barbora Šedivá, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Introduction to school facilities, galleries, and initiatives.
2. Visits to museums and galleries in Brno.
3. Field trip to Prague and another important center of artistic life in the Czech/Czecho-Slovak region (Ostrava, Ústí nad Labem, Bratislava).
4. Sessions with invited artists, curators and cultural organizers from the faculty and local art scene.

Field trip

16 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Barbora Šedivá, Ph.D.