Course detail

Art after 2000

FaVU-2U2000-ZAcad. year: 2018/2019

This course will consist of an equal proportion of lectures and seminars. The lectures will focus on current topics in contemporary art, important personalities and events (international exhibitions, fairs, biennals, etc), and the current developmnets in the institutional management of art. The seminars will consist of student paper presentation connected to the issues dealt with at the lectures.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will have a better knowlege of the development of art after 2000 (personalities, institutions, paradigms).

Prerequisites

Students must have a god knowledge of art after 1945.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lectures and students' presentations followed with discussions are alternated during a semester.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Assesment on the scale 0 to 100 points consists of two parts: compulsory presentation during the semester (0 to 20 points), written essay of 9000 characters minimum (21 to 80 points).

Course curriculum

1. Bienalisation of art. Why biennials are so important today. What are their roots? How do they differ (Venice, Havana, Kassel, shifting Manifesta)? How are they related to the art fairs?
2. An archival impulse / a historiographical turn. Artist as a researcher interested in the past, memory, and archives in general and the specific interest of contemporary artist in the questions of modernity, its ideas and formal language. Ostalgia - culturally specific version of the more general historiographical turn in contemporary art.
3. Is everything an installation? Installation as a genre, installation aesthetics (various trends and regimes after 2000).
4. After New Media. From net.art to post-internet (and beyond).
5. Return of the Object - object oriented ontology and contemporary art; art and anthropocene.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

A goal of this course id to expand students' orientation in contemporary art: its important representatives, events, and trends.

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

Controlled attendance (3 absences accepted).

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

- (CS)

Recommended reading

Barbara VANDERLINDEN – Elena FILIPOVIC (eds.), The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2005 (EN)
Paul O’NEILL & Mick WILSON (Eds.), Curating and the Educational Turn. London: Open Editions a De Appel Arts Centre, 2010. (EN)
Miwon KWON, One Place After Another. Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, Cambridge, MA – Londýn: MIT Press 2002 (EN)
Ondřej HORÁK (ed.), Místa počinu. Praha: Komunikační prostor Školská 28, 2010. (CS)
Boris GROYS, Going Public. New York – Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2010. (EN)
Nicolas BOURRIAUD, Postprodukce, Praha: Tranzit, 2004. (CS)
Elena FILIPOVIC – Marieke VAN HAL – Solveig ØVSTEBO (eds.), The Biennial Reader, Hatje Cantz, 2010. (EN)
Claire BISHOP, Installation Art, London: Tate Publishing, 2011. (EN)
Zbyněk BALADRÁN – Vít HAVRÁNEK – Věra KREJČOVÁ (eds.), Atlas transformace. Praha: Tranzit, 2009. (CS)
Václav JANOŠČÍK (ed.), Objekt. Praha: Galerie Kvalitář, 2015. (CS)
Jan ZÁLEŠÁK, Minulá budoucnost. Brno – Praha: FaVU VUT v Brně – tranzit, 2013. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Master's

    branch APD , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AGD1 , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AGD2 , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AM3 , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AM1 , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AS1 , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AM2 , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AS2 , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AKG , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AFO , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AEN , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AIN , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AVI , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AMU , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch ATD , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch APE , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

10 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Seminar

16 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer