The Body Politic

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307DBP zkouška 4 50 hodiny DÍLEN za celý semestr (45 minut), 63 až 83 hodin domácí příprava anglicky zimní

Garant předmětu

Hynek ALT

Jméno vyučujícího (jména vyučujících)

Peter John Stuart WATKINS

Katedra

Předmět zajišťuje Katedra fotografie

Obsah

This workshop led by Joanna Piotrowska and Peter Watkins will explore the body as a site of performativity, collectivity, and activation. Through a practical, hands-on workshop exploring photography, staging, and embodied experimentation, students will investigate how the body can be used as both subject and medium within a wider artistic research theme of The Body Politic.

Výsledky učení

●Experimentation with the body as a tool for artistic research and expression.

●Development of an understanding of performativity and embodiment within a political and cultural frame.

●Development of collaborative and experimental approaches to working with photography and the body and its representation.

●Practical connections are made to the wider artistic research explored over the AR1 course led by Peter Watkins (if you are participating)

Předpoklady a další požadavky

No specific technical requirements; students should be prepared to engage physically and conceptually with workshop exercises, with active engagement in discussions.

Literatura

Required Readings

●Butler, J. (2011) Bodies that matter: on the discursive limits of “sex”. 2nd edn. London and New York: Routledge.

Butler explores how bodies are shaped and constrained by social norms, arguing that gender and sex are not fixed but performed through repeated actions. The book examines how these performances reinforce or challenge cultural and political norms. This text is useful for understanding performativity, embodiment, and how the body both enacts and resists social expectations.

●Piotrowska, J. (2014) FROWST. London: MACK.

●Piotrowska, J. (2021) Stable Vices. London: MACK.

●Arendt, H. (1970) On violence. London: Allen Lane.

In this book, Arendt explores the difference between power, authority, and violence, arguing that real political power comes from collective action, not coercion. She examines why violence is often used in politics and protests, and why it can never create true legitimacy. This text is useful for thinking about how bodies, action, and resistance operate within political structures.

●Sealy, M. (2019) Decolonising the camera: photography in racial time. London: Lawrence & Wishart.

Sealy examines how photography has been shaped by colonial histories and racial power dynamics, and how images can reinforce or challenge these structures. The book explores how photographers and audiences can critically engage with representation, identity, and the politics of visibility. This text is useful for understanding how visual culture shapes perceptions of the body, race, and power.

Recommended Readings

●Sontag, S. (2003) Regarding the pain of others. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

●Peck, A. (2023) ‘Joanna Piotrowska Visualizes the Power of Small Gestures’, Aperture, 4 May. Available at: https://aperture.org/editorial/joanna-piotrowska-visualizes-the-power-of-small-gestures/ (Accessed: 31 August 2025).

●Murtha, C. (2024) ‘Joanna Piotrowska: The Politics of Touch’, ArtReview, 16 October. Available at: https://artreview.com/joanna-piotrowska-unseeing-eyes-restless-bodies-institute-of-contemporary-art-philadelphia-review-chris-murtha/ (Accessed: 31 August 2025).

●Judah, H. (2019) ‘Gimme shelter: Joanna Piotrowska on her unsettling domestic scenes’, The Guardian, 7 March. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/07/we-need-to-defend-ourselves-joanna-piotrowska-family-photographs-tate-britain (Accessed: 31 August 2025).

●Epps, P. (2021) ‘Joanna Piotrowska stages images of violence and vulnerability in her latest monograph’, British Journal of Photography (1854.photography), 6 April. Available at: https://www.1854.photography/2021/04/joanna-piotrowska-stages-images-of-violence-and-vulnerability-in-her-latest-monograph/ (Accessed: 31 August 2025).

●Cuniberti, L. (2022) Joanna Piotrowska. La Biennale di Venezia – The Milk of Dreams. Available at: https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2022/milk-dreams/joanna-piotrowska (Accessed: 31 August 2025).

●A. N. (n.d.) When Joanna Piotrowska was accused of being a spy she focused her lens on roses. Frieze Magazine. Available at: https://www.frieze.com/article/when-joanna-piotrowska-was-accused-being-spy-she-focused-her-lens-roses (Accessed: 31 August 2025).

Hodnoticí metody a kritéria

Active participation in practical tasks, contribution to group discussions, and completion of a short project or visual experiment developed during the workshop.

Poznámka

Mode of study:

Practical workshop, group discussions, and independent project work.

Schedule:

01.10. Open call process - MgA students

5.11. Joanna Piotrowska Guest Lecture - Part of the Seminar of Accidental Wisdom series

6.11. Workshop – Day one

7.11. Workshop – Day two

8.11. Workshop – Day three - Consultations

9.11. Final Presentations Presentations and consultations

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