JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM
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Course: Curatory Study - Field Methodology II

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Course title Curatory Study - Field Methodology II
Course code KDT/FU105
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Koleček Michal, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Format of the exhibition ? works exhibited next to each other create new meanings and tell new stories. 2. New images of history ? contemporary art in the process of understanding the past. 3. Curatorial archive ? curatorial research strategy. 4. Something like site-specific ? the role of place in contemporary art. 5. Work in public space ? democratization of artistic discourse. 6. Criticism of institutions - freedom of the work, limits of its presentation. 7. Searching for the viewer - the art of education, education through art. 8. Images of nature ? the environmental turn in contemporary art. 9. The beauty of data ? technology as an expression of aesthetic experience. 10. Migrating images ? works of art floating in the structures of communication technologies. 11. The work as a collaboration ? contemporary art is part of the lives of its viewers. 12. Presentation of seminar papers. This course also includes a guided discussion with an invited contemporary visual artist and a foreign curator of contemporary art.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course of study introduces students to key aspects of the development of curatorial methodology and the fundamental positions represented by specific defining curatorial figures, curatorial concepts, and the basic terminology of curatorial studies. While the emphasis is primarily on the last thirty years, it is complemented by several topics representing curatorial figures who model the paradigm of curatorial work within the late modern and postmodern periods. The individual lectures are formulated to trace the deeper roots of the presented themes, contextualizing them both in historical perspective and in a broader socio-cultural context, while linking them to significant works of art or authorial positions. Particular emphasis is then given to addressing the very current movements in the space of curatorial methodology and practice that dynamise the situation on the contemporary art scene and at the same time reflect the profound paradigmatic change in which the social framework finds itself in conjunction with the processes of environmental change, the emphasis on sustainable development, technological development and the restructuring of the ordering of relationships in specific communities and the wider social framework.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
1. Fulfililing partial tasks and assignments throughtout the semestr 2. Active participation in the Studio tutoring
Recommended literature
  • APPADURAI, A. The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition. Verso, London, New York, 2013.
  • BAL, M. Exhibition-ism: Temporal Togerness. Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2021.
  • BEHNKE, CH.; KASTELAN, C.; KNOLL, V.; WUGGENING, U. Art in the Periphery of the Center. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014.
  • Bishop, C. Artifical Hells, Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship. Verso, New York, 2012.
  • Borgdorff, H.; Peters, P.; Pinch, T. Dialogues between Artistic Research and Science and Technology Studies. Routledge, 2019.
  • BRADLEY, W.; ESCHE, CH. (eds.). Art and Social Change. London: Tate Publishing, 2007.
  • BUTT, D. Artistic Research in the Future Academy. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2017.
  • CADUFF, C. (ed.). Art and Artistic Research: Music, Visual Art, Design, Literature, Dance. Zürich: Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess, 2017.
  • DANTO, A. C. After the end of art: contemporary art and the pale of history. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Universtiy Press, 1997.
  • DAVIS, H.; TURPIN. E. (eds.). Art in the Anthropocene. Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies. London: Open Humanities Press, 2015.
  • e-flux journal (ed.). The Internet Does Not Exist. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015.
  • Foster, H. The return of the real: the avant-garde at he end of the century. MIT Press, Cambridge, London, 1996.
  • HANNULA, M. (ed.). Artistic Research Methodology. Narrative, Power and the Public. Berlin: Peter Lang Publishing, 2014.
  • Lacy, S. (ed.). Mapping the Terrain. New Genre Public Art. Bay Press, Seattle, 1994.
  • LATOUR, B.; LECLERC, CH. (eds.). Reset Modernity!. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016.
  • MANOVICH, L. Cultural Analytics. London: Penguin Random Books, 2020.
  • Navas, E. Art, Media Design, and Postproduction. Open Gidelines on Appropriation and Remix. Routledge, 2018.
  • NIJHOLT, A. (ed.). Brain Art. Brain-Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression. Zürich: Springer, 2019.
  • Owens, C. Beyond Recognition, Representation, Power, and Culture. University of California Press, Princeton University Press 1997, 1994.
  • WIGGINS, B. E. The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture. Ideology, Semiotics and Intertextuality. London: Routledge, 2019.
  • Zabel, I. Contemporary Art Theory. JRP/Ringier, Zurich, 2012.


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JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM, date of update: 01.12.2025 23:50. Data created for academic year 2025/2026