Course detail

Performance Media 1 - winter

FaVU-3MP1-ZAcad. year: 2010/2011

The course on theory and history on action with the emphasis on interactive expressions of contemporary media art.
Bibliography:
Elisabeth Jappe, Performance, Ritual, Prozess, Prestel - Munich
RoseLee Goldberg, Performance Art, Abrams - New York
RoseLee Goldberg, Performance Art since 1960, Abrams - N. Y.
Paul Shimmel, Out of actions, MOMA - Los Angeles
Henry Sayre, The Object of Performance, University of Chicago Press
Frank Popper, Art, Action, Participation, New York University Press

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course provides theoretical and historical information on action art in media and interactive artworks.

Prerequisites

None.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

individual studies, written assigments

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Classified credit - the quality of written assigments is assesed.

Course curriculum

MEDIA PERFORMANCE - Winter semester (1)

STILL LIFE (object) - OBSERVATION

1. John CAGE - Silence
2. Yves KLEIN - Leap into the Void
3. Allan KAPROW - Happening / art - life
4. Piero MANZONI - fetishism/ Hanne DARBOVEN - documentation / Klaus RINKE + On KAWARA - time
5. James TURREL - dark/light
6. Ana MENDIETA - sensual experience

PORTRAIT (subjekt) - EXPRESSION (image)

1. GILBERT & GEORGE - artist and model/ tableaux vivant
2. Robert MAPPLETHORPE / Andres SERRANO - confession, publicity
3. Mariko MORI / Yasumasa MORIMURA - identity and masquerade
4. Cindy SHERMAN / Nan GOLDIN - image and medialization
5. Bas Jan ADER / Skip ARNOLD - personality and gesture
6. Pipilotti RIST / Vanessa BEECROFT - reflection and stylization

SPACE
(outer environment -architecture / mental - conceptual dimension)

1. Dennis OPPENHEIM, Richard SERRA, Robert SMITHSON, Mike HEIZER
2. Richard LONG, Hamish FULTON, Andy GOLTHWORTHY - LAND ART
3. CHRISTO / Gordon MATTA CLARK - perform architecture
4. Dan GRAHAM / Jeffrey SHAW / Joseph KOSUTH - CONCEPT ART
5. Marina ABRAMOVIČ / ULAY - spiritual dimension
6. Nikolaus LANG / Maya DEREN - myth and ritual

1. john CAGE - SILENCE
2. YVES KLEIN

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

he course develops students' skills to combine and integrate theoretical knowledge in action art needed for the reflection of a complex work of art by learning about interactive forms of presentation and media strategies of creative interaction with reality.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

tutorials on essays regarding the individual thematic blocs

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Elisabeth Jappe, Performance, Ritual, Prozess, Prestel - Munich

Recommended literature

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUD Doctoral

    branch , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme VUD Doctoral

    branch , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller