Course: Studio and Workshops I

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Course title Studio and Workshops I
Course code KEO/133
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kovanda Jiří, doc.
Course content
These informations are in the annotation of the course.

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
Performance - we can also say "the art of action" - is a way of artistic expression, in which the artist's body and their behavior in certain situations become the main means. These activities are always carried out in real time and real space. Unlike in theatre, the artist is always himself/herself and does not play any part or pretend anything. The activities of this Studio are first of all about performance and anything related to this form of artistic expression. Primarily, it is operating media used for recording and documenting these activities, i.e. the photography and video. Further, we will deal with means that are closest to the action art, i.e. installation and object. However, I am sure that it is not possible today to reduce an artist's creation to only one possible means of expression. Therefore, the students will be given a possibility to use any suitable means to express what they want to, regardless of the specialization of the Studio. The students' horizon and knowledge of their colleagues' creation both around them and on the international art scene will be naturally accentuated too. Not only the process of creating an artefact itself will be important for us, but also its presentation, whether at exhibitions or in media. It is for instance the appropriate selection of works to be presented, their adjustment and installation, interviews and communication your own work to the public, and critics, etc. I find it important that students - if possible -work in the grounds of the school, so that they have the opportunity to confront their work with others, to encounter and communicate with each other. This will enable us to talk regularly, not only about the work itself, but about anything that is connected with it in any way, as this is the only way a student can utilize everything provided by studies at this school in the most effective way.
The student has acquired and mastered technical means and procedures, including, but not limited to photography, video, or work on preparatory sketches and drafts and they are able to employ them in their original creation as author. The student has a notion of current innovations in the disciplines they are involved in, and he/she is able to consult and defend their intentions.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
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1. Fulfilling partial tasks and assignments all over the semester 2. Active participation in the Studio tuitions
Recommended literature
  • Adler, Phoebe; McCorquodale, Duncan (eds.). Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe. London Black Dog Publishing, 2010.
  • Adrian Henri. Environments and Happenings. Thames and Hudson, 1974.
  • Bishop, C. Artifical Hells, Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship. Verso, New York, 2012.
  • Bryzgel, Amy. Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960. Manchester University, 2017.
  • J. Kastner (ed.). Land and Environmental Art. Phaidon, 1998.
  • J. Mayer (ed.). Minimalism. Phaidon, 2000.
  • Kemp-Welch, Klara. Antipolitics in Central European Art. I. B. Tauris, London/New York, 2014.
  • Pavlína Morganová. Akční umění. Votobia, 1999.
  • R. L. Goldberg. Performance Art. Thames and Hudson, 1990.
  • Roemer, Stefan. Report from the Conceptual Paradise. Silke Schreiber Verlag, Munchen, 2013.
  • T. Warr (ed.). The Artist's Body. Phaidon, 2000.
  • U. Grossenick (ed.), B. Riemschneider (ed.). Art at the Turn of the Millenium. Taschen, 1999.


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