Meeting with curators - discussion

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
307MSS Z 1 10S English, Czech summer

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Learning outcomes of the course unit

Preparations for an exhibition by the Dept. of Photography at the Holešovické Colliery.

Mode of study

Meetings attendance

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Participation is discussions with curators

Course contents

Preparation of the Photo department exhibition.

Idea of the exhibition:

"Being sensitive their surrounding and be able to focus on desired topics is a luxury for most of the people today. Gradual disappearing of this ability is successfully replaced by expansion on new technologies. We are constantly gaining amount of new user experiences and becoming „loudly lone“, moving in illusion of endless possibilities, but its options of its true use is still closing more and more.

It appears to us that we are freely and individually creating our believes, but in reality the „outer voice“ which is telling us the truth so much optimized for our profile, that it seems to be like our own. It reversing the confidence in oneself in technology. We are not perceive our believes as something connected with ours feeling, but more like something measurable.

Maybe one of the ways how to distort mechanisms which forms contemporary situation leads through realization that ours decisions are illusive and naive. To admit and use ours user naivity as a strategic instrument could be a way how to be more conscious. To try to look at technologies and processes around us with a fresh eyes, to claim utopian proposals. To try to get behind pre-defined.

We should admit, that change is possible, but we have to be its active executors. The field of art is a space which is offerering possibilities for presenting questions, for creating new mythologies and experimental narratives.They should serve as inspiration also for spectators outside of world of art and cultivate society as whole.

With a preparation of the exhibition we would like to also focus on mechanisms and strategies of exhibiting artworks. Our aim is to create a working space, which would be motivating participators to assemble an exhibitions, where the complexity is accented at the expense of its individual elements. We would like to state beforehand, that we are not primarily interested on individual artworks, but more about how they could exist together. We would also like to offer the space of the exhibitions as a possibility to realize projects, which are yet in progress, but could be finished for specific place (and we don´t think necessarily just about visual art projects)"

Recommended or required reading

none

Assessment methods and criteria

Presentation of portfolia, discussions, exhibition preparations

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