Contemporary trends in Performing Arts 1

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Learning outcomes of the course unit:

1. The course aim is introduce students to issues of contemporary art, acquaint them with the fundamental concepts and present the most important Czech and world artists. The result is to be a good bearing and basic awareness of the development and history of performative and visual arts.

Outcomes:

1) Student acquires necessary knowledge of the market for which the study program was prepared, current tendencies in Czech and world theatre and performing arts;

2) Student acquires ability to evaluate and judge their own production activities and future intentions in the context and competition in the Czech arts scene and contemporary world trends which increase the working application nad competitiveness of future projects.

3) Student is prepared to perform production practice (or as director of an arts organization or festival), that is, a person responsible for the content of the event.

Mode of study:

A one-semester course combining lectures and discussions with guests - Art historians and theoriticians.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None.

Course contents:

Course content is classes supplemented by visits by professionals specializing in particular areas of contemporary art -Denisa Václavová (graphic and conceptual art), Sodja Lotker (performance, scriptwriting), Pavel Štorek (dance and movement theatre), Marta Ljubková (drama and original theatre). The aim of the course is to introduce students to the issues of contemporary live art, acquaint them with the basic concepts and present the most significant artists and their projects. Emphasis is placed on a wide spectrum of art and the presentation of a wide variety of approaches of how to create in artistic operations. The study is concluded with a course paper on an assigned topic.

Recommended or required reading:

Belting, Hans: Konec dějin umění (Mladá fronta, Praha 2000).

Bourriaud, Nicolas: Postprodukce (tranzit, Praha 2004).

Cools, Guy: International Co-production & Touring (http://on-the-move.org/files/news/Co-productionandtouring.pdf).

Gehl, Jan: Život mezi budovami. Užívání veřejného prostranství (Nadace Partnerství, Brno 2000).

Goldberg, RoseLee: Performance Art, from Futurism to the Present (Thames&Hudson, London 2001).

Havránek, Vít: Akce, slovo, pohyb, prostor ? experimenty v umění šedesátých let (Národní galerie, Praha 1999).

Morganová, Pavlína: Akční umění (Votobia, Olomouc 1999).

Nekolný, Bohumil: Divadelní systémy a kulturní politika, Divadelní ústav, Praha, 2006

Prostor a jeho člověk (kolektiv, Vesmír, Praha 2004).

Sorošovo centrum současného umění: Umělecké dílo ve veřejném prostoru (Praha, 1997).

Srp, Karel: Minimal, Earth, Conceptual Art (Jazzová sekce, Jazzpetit č. 11, 1. a 2. část, Praha 1982).

Ševčík, Jiří - Morganová, Pavlína - Nekvindová, Terezie - Svatošová,Dagmar: České umění 1980-2010 (VVP AVU, Praha 2011)

Zálešák, Jan: Umění spolupráce (VVP AVU, Praha 2011)

Stein, Tobie S.: Performing arts management (New York Allworth Press, c2008)

Selected articles from Svět a divadlo - 1995 to 2013

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