Alternatives 21 6

Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Semester
204NLA6	ZK	1	2/T	summer

Subject guarantor:

Karel MAKONJ, Tomáš ŽIŽKA

Name of lecturer(s):

Karel MAKONJ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The study aim is to adopt and understand modern forms of inter-media artistic expression and appy it in open situations in public spaces

Mode of study:

Completion, defense and possible implementation of an original project.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Interest in contemporary fine arts, joining fine and theatre arts environments and work in disrupted socio-cultural environments in direct interaction with a urban or social context.

Recommended optional programme components:

Attendance and critical review of current intermedia exhibition projects based on consultation with the lecturer

Course contents:

Artistic media have gone through stormy changes in the last decade, in relation to new technological approaches as well as in relation to the development of multi-cultural societies. In Alternatives of the 21st Century, lectures will present defining currents of contemporary performing arts, which exist on the borders of visual and theatre expression. As well this theory presentation will be used by the students for their own artistic projects for site-specific or participatory intervention in a public space. In the preparations for these projects, the students are acquainted with the basic creation, curation and production processes which are characterized in artistic practice in a public space.

Recommended or required reading:

Recommended or required readings:

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:

Completion of etudes. Participation in colloquiua. Project concept.

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:

	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
Wed
Thu	místnost () 11:30–18:00 (paralelka 1)
Fri	místnost () 09:30–19:00 (paralelka 1)

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Thu	11:30–18:00				paralelka 1
	Fri	09:30–19:00				paralelka 1

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)