Documentation, Reproduction, Presentation 2

Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
307EDPP2	exam	2	26 seminar hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 31 to 41 hours of self-study	English	summer

Subject guarantor

Martin STECKER

Name of lecturer(s)

Peter John Stuart WATKINS

Department

The subject provides Department of Photography

Documenting, cataloguing, and disseminating your work are fundamental aspects of developing a professional artistic practice. While essential for personal development, documentation also serves broader cultural, historical, and practical purposes.

This module will examine different approaches to documentation, including how context is defined and understood. This module will be made up of seminars and group discussions, practical tasks, visits to galleries, archives, and institutions, as well as technical workshops. You will be expected to independently develop your work, applying strategies and concepts from group activities. Ultimately, you will work toward implementing these methods in your own developing practice, expanding beyond the personal to consider wider contexts and applications.

During this module, you will:

● Document exhibitions

● Participate in group tasks and complete individual tasks independently

● Document photo books, in both group and individual tasks

● Experiment with different forms of documentation

● Identify norms and expectations, exploring alternative outcomes

● Visit an archive to uncover the cultural and historical role of documentation.

● Learn about workflow, file management, organisation, and archiving

Learning outcomes

Students will engage in technical workshops, seminars, tutorials, lectures, and independent work and are expected to demonstrate their emerging individual research towards building skills that will inform elements of their practice.

Students are expected to experiment and develop skills to determine which ideas they might further explore and what they can discard.

Failure is an important part of experimentation and students should begin challenging their own preconceived notions about art in order to begin developing their work in a broader context.

Prerequisites and other requirements

At least 80% attendance is required in order to pass this class. During this semester we will work with an archive, learn about archival conventions, we will document a public exhibition, we will talk about editing and presenting your work professionally.

-- 80% attendance required

-- Mandatory presentations will take place in our final session together.

-- Edited documentation work carried out during group sessions, presented in PDF format

Literature

Exhibition listings - http://artmap.cz

Weekly exhibition listings - http://flashart.cz/

Exhibition listings / Press releases / Installation Views

https://artviewer.org/

Exhibition listings / Press releases / Installation Views

https://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/

Exhibition / book reviews and critical writing in photography

https://www.1000wordsmag.com/

October Journal

https://www.jstor.org/journal/october

Galleries

Galerie Jeleni / Cursor Gallery - http://cca.fcca.cz/en/

Display Gallery - http://display.cz/

Entrance Gallery - https://entrancegallery.com/

Etc - https://etcgalerie.cz/cs/

Galerie NoD - https://www.nod.roxy.cz/gallery/about

GHMP - https://www.ghmp.cz/en/

Hunt Kastner - http://huntkastner.com/

Meet Factory - http://www.meetfactory.cz/en/

Viper Gallery - http://www.vipergallery.org/

Svetova 1 - http://www.svetova1.cz/

Berlinksej Model - https://berlinskejmodel.cz/en/

Polansky Gallery - http://polanskygallery.com/

Kunsthalle - https://www.kunsthallepraha.org/

National Gallery - https://www.ngprague.cz/en/exhibitions-and-events

Evaluation methods and criteria

Submissions will take the form of studio presentations in the final week together, alongside

supplied evidence of completed tasks. Regular completion of on-going work throughout the

semester is required, as well as group participation. Students are required to attend a minimum

of 80% of sessions.

Description Format Evidence

-- Evidence of documentation and editing of exhibition visited as a group -- format PDF

-- Studio Presentations in final week.

-- 80% class participation

Note

Schedule for winter semester 2025/2026:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	room TR2-304 Tržiště -st. intermedia (Tržiště 20, Praha 1 (vchod z Rektorátu AMU, Malostranské nám. 12)) WATKINS P. 14:00–17:15 (lecture parallel1)
Wed
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	14:00–17:15	Peter John Stuart WATKINS	Tržiště -st. intermedia Tržiště 20, Praha 1 (vchod z Rektorátu AMU, Malostranské nám. 12)		lecture parallel1

The subject is a part of the following study plans

Photography EN - Bachelor - 2022 (Required subjects)