Course detail

Research Through Art and Design 1

FaVU-4RTA-1Acad. year: 2024/2025

The course consists of lectures followed by seminars. Lectures familiarize students with the historical roots, institutionalization, and current developments of artistic research. In seminars, students engage in a discussion about the production of knowledge in the field of art and about the new avenues that artistic research opens up in this respect. Students develop their ability to recognize and describe research aspects of their work and to articulate research contribution of their artistic practice.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Mgr. A. Lenka Klodová, 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 lecture and seminar participation. Attendance of more than 70% is required.
Lectures and seminars take place at the premises of the FFA BUT according to the course schedule. Attendance of more than 70% is required.

Aims

Lectures aim to familiarize students with the historical roots, institutionalization and current developments of artistic research. In seminars, students are encouraged to engage in a discussion about the production of knowledge in the field of art and about the new avenues that artistic research opens up in this respect.

Students acquire ability to recognize and describe research aspects of their creative work. Upon completion of the course, students are able to articulate research contribution of their artistic practice in a clear, comprehensive, and confident way.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Borgdorff, Henk. 2012. The Conflict of the Faculties: Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia. Leiden: Leiden University Press. (EN)
Elkins, James, ed. 2009. Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art. New Academia Publishing. (EN)
Hannula, Mika, Juha Suoranta, and Tere Vadén. 2005. Artistic Research — Theories, Methods and Practices. Helsinki and Gothenburg: Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki and University of Gothenburg. (EN)
Holert, Tom. 2009. “Art in the Knowledge-Based Polis.” e-flux, Journal #3, February. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/03/68537/art-in-the-knowledge-based-polis/ (EN)
Jobertová, Daniela, and Alice Koubová, eds. 2017. Artistic Research: Is There Some Method? Prague: Academy of Performing Arts (AMU Press). (EN)
Klein, Julian. 2017. “What Is Artistic Research?” JAR — Journal for Artistic Research, April 23. https://www.jar-online.net/what-artistic-research (EN)
Rogoff, Irit. 2008. “Turning.” e-flux, Journal #0, November. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/00/68470/turning/ (EN)
Rogoff, Irit. 2010. “Practicing Research: Singularizing Knowledge.” MaHKUzine: journal of artistic research 9: 37–42. https://issuu.com/hku-online/docs/mahkuzine09_web (EN)
Schwab, Michael. 2019. “Expositionality.” In Artistic Research: Charting a Field in Expansion, edited by Paulo de Assis, and Lucia D`Errico, 27–45. London and New York: Rowman & Littlefield. (EN)
Steyerl, Hito. 2010. “Aesthetics of Resistence? Artistic Research as Discipline and Conflict.” MaHKUzine: journal of artistic research 8: 31–37. https://issuu.com/hku-online/docs/mahkuzine08_web (EN)
Wilson, Mick, and Schelte van Ruiten, eds. 2013. SHARE: Handbook for Artistic Research. ELIA — European League of Institutes of the Arts. (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

 

Lecture

14 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Mgr. A. Lenka Klodová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Emergence of artistic research, definitions of artistic research.
2. Historical origins and institutionalization of artistic research.
3. Typologies of research in art and design: practice-led research, research-led practice, design research, art-based research, artistic research, research about/for/through art, art about/for/through research.
4. Artistic research as a hybrid practice: convergences and collisions of art and research, specific and singular methods, “singularization of knowledge,” “undisciplining.”
5. “Turning”: educational turn, research turn, “postresearch condition.”
6. Methods of artistic research and artistic research as a method.
7. “Articulations” and “expositions” of artistic research: articulating practice as research, “expositions” of artistic research in Research Catalogue.

Seminar

12 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

MgA. Lenka Veselá, M.A., Ph.D.