Course detail

Research Through Art and Design 2

FaVU-4RTA-2Acad. year: 2024/2025

The course consists of lectures followed by seminars. Lectures familiarize students with the current situation and trends in artistic research. In seminars, students engage in a discussion about academic artistic research and what it has to offer them. Students advance their ability to recognize and build on research aspects of their creative work. They learn how to formulate research questions, reflect on research methods, and interpret results of research work.

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)

Entry knowledge

Completing Research Through Art 1.

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 current situation and trends in artistic research. In seminars, students are encouraged to engage in a discussion about academic artistic research and what it has to offer them.
Upon completion of the course, students have the ability to recognize and build on research aspects of their creative work. They know how to formulate research questions, choose appropriate methods, and interpret results of their research work.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

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)
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)
Hlavajova, Maria, and Wietske Maas. 2019. Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent. Utrecht and Cambridge: basis voor actuele kunst and MIT Press. (EN)
Jobertová, Daniela, and Alice Koubová, eds. 2017. Artistic Research: Is There Some Method? Prague: Academy of Performing Arts (AMU Press). (EN)
Mühl, Sebastian. 2016. “Artistic Research as a Challenge for Art Criticism.” Notebook for Art, Theory and (EN)
Related Zones 20, Special Online Issue. http://vvp.avu.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/muhl.pdf (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)
Smith, Marquard, ed. 2020. Research: Practitioner, Curator, Educator. Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press. (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)
Weizman, Eyal. 2017. Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability. Brooklyn: Zone Books. (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, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme ZST-BX Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme ZST-NX Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

14 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Mgr. A. Lenka Klodová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Between art, research, and activism: socially engaged practices, sustainable practices.
2. Interdisciplinary and collective practices.
3. Institutions and platforms for artistic research.
4. Excellent practices: examples of successful artistic research projects.
5. Emerging formats of artistic research: journals for artistic research, “expositions” of artistic research in the Research Catalogue, research exhibition.
6. Building research networks.

Seminar

12 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

MgA. Lenka Veselá, M.A., Ph.D.