Course: The Institutional Frame of Contemporary Art II

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Course title The Institutional Frame of Contemporary Art II
Course code KDT/FU028
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Szoboszlai János György, PhD., M.A.
Course content
1.The position of artist within the frame (emerging: from college to gallery). 2.The position of artist within the frame (established: from gallery to collection). 3.Art as institutional criticism (historical). 4.Art as institutional criticism (contemporary). 5.Current cultural policies (EU). 6.Current cultural policies of the post-soc region 7.Current institutional and curatorial positions of the post-soc region 1. 8.Current institutional and curatorial positions of the post-soc region 2. 9.Current discourse on the history of art within the post-soc region 1. 10.Current discourse on the history of art within the post-soc region 2. 11.Current tendecies of fine art within the post-soc region

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
Based on the course The Institutional Frame of Contemporary Art and Design I, this course taught in English introduces the basics of relevant theories related to contemporary art, presents current cultural policies, explains the art practice as institutional criticism. The course also offers the basics of contemporary project management. The scope of the subjects is global in terms of reference, however, special attention is paid to the conditions of the countries of the post-soc region. All the subject matters of the lectures are supported by glossary, bibliography, and case studies. The aim is to assist emerging artists, designers, and curators to act as full-time art and design professionals within the context of the current political, economic and cultural tendencies.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Attendance
Recommended literature
  • Beata Hock, Anu Allas. Globalization East European Art Histories. Routledge, 2018.
  • Laura Hoptman and Tomáš Pospiszyl. Primary Documents, A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s. MOMA, NY, 2002.
  • Piotr Piotrowski. Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe. London, Reaktion Books, 2012.
  • Piotr Piotrowski. In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe. London, Reaktion Books 1945-1989, 2009.
  • Zdenka Badovinac. Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe. Independent Curators International (ICI), 2019.


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