Alternatives 21 1

Subject guarantor:

Name of lecturer(s):

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The study aim is to learn and understand contemporary forms of intermedia artistic expression and apply it in open public spaces.

Mode of study:

Completion, defense and possible implementation of an original project.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Interest in contemporary grahic arts, joining graphic and theatre arts media and work in disrupted socio-cultural surroundings in direct interaction in an urban or societal context.

Recommended optional programme components:

Attendance at and critical review of current intermedia exhibition projects based on group consultations with the lecturer.

Course contents:

Artistic tools have gone through, in the last decades, stormy changes in relation to new technological procedures and in relation to the development of multi-cultural societies. The 21st Century Alternatives course will, in lectures, present particular currents of contemporary performance art which exists on the borders of graphic and theatre expression. As well, this theory presentation develops student art projects focused on site-specific or participatory intervention in a public space. In these projects, students are acquainted with the basics of artistic, curatorship and production procedures which characterize arts in public spaces.

Recommended or required reading:

Required and recommended:

Enwezor, O. (ed.): Democracy Unrealized. Documenta 11, Kassel, 2002

Hlaváček, L. (ed.): Umělecké dílo ve veřejném prostoru. NSU, Praha, 1997

Marincola, P. (ed.): Curating now: Imaginative Practice / Public Responsibility. Philadelphia, 2001

Pachmanová, M. (ed.): Věrnost v pohybu. Praha, 2001

Pospiszyl, T. (ed.): Před obrazem. Praha, 1998

Kastner, J. (ed.): Land and Environmental Art. Phaidon, 1998

Morganova, P.: Akční umění. Votobia, 1999

Goldberg, R. L.: Performance Art. Thames and Hudson, 1990

Warr, T. (ed.): The Artist's Body. Phaidon, 2000

Grossenick, U.; Riemschneider, B. (eds.): Art at the Turn of the Millenium. Taschen, 1999

Deutsche, R.: Evictions-Art and Spatial Politics. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1996

Greenberg, R.; Ferguson, B. W.; Nairne, S. (eds.): Thinking about Exhibitions. New York, 2000

Kesner ml., L.: Muzeum umění v digitální době-vnímání obrazů a prožitek v soudobé společnosti. Praha, 2000

Wade, G. (ed.): Curating in the 21st Century. Walsall, Wolverhampton, 2000

Wallis, B. (ed.): Art after Modernism. Rethinking Representation. The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1984

Djurić, D.; Šuvaković, M. (ed.): Impossible Histories, Historical Avant-gardes, Neo-avant-gardes and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991. Cambridge-London, 2003

Mészöly, S.; Bencsik, B. (eds.): Polyphony-Social Commentary in Contemporary Hungarian Art. SCCA, Budapest, 1993

Michalovič, P. (ed.): Subjekt-autor-auditórium. Subjekt v priestoroch umenia. SCSU, Bratislava, 1996

Pejić, B.; Elliot, D. (eds.): After the Wall. Art and Culture in Post-communist Europe. Stockholm 1999

Rusnáková, K.: História a teória mediálného umenia na Slovensku. VŠVU, Bratislava, 2006

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lecture, exercises, excursions.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Completed etudes, participations in colloquia, project concept.

Course web page:

Note:

Instruction schedule see: www DAMU / katedra ALD / Rozvrhy hodin

Further information:

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Performerství alternativního divadla (Bc.) programu Divadelní tvorba v netradičních prostorech (compulsory subject)
• Scénografie alternativního divadla (Bc.) programu Divadelní tvorba v netradičních prostorech (compulsory subject)
• Režie a dramaturgie alternativního divadla (Bc.) programu Divadelní tvorba v netradičních prostorech (compulsory subject)