Contemporary Photography and Arts 1
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 307EFU1 | exam | 4 | 2 hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 82 to 102 hours of self-study | English | winter |
Subject guarantor
Tomáš DVOŘÁK, Josef LEDVINA, Michal ŠIMŮNEK
Name of lecturer(s)
Tomáš DVOŘÁK, Josef LEDVINA, Tereza STEJSKALOVÁ, Michal ŠIMŮNEK
Contents
October 11
What is art and who makes it?
Professionals, Amateurs, Outsiders, Shitposters, Automatons…
Pamela Bannos: „Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife“, University of Chicago Press 2017.
October 18
Pictures as Tools and as Artworks
Hito Steyerl: In Defense of the Poor Image
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/¨
October 25
Politics and Aesthetics of Obsolescence: Analog Photography in Digital Age
Margaret Iversen: “Analogue: On Zoe Leonard and Tacita Dean”. In: Photography, Trace, and Trauma, 2019, 33-47.
November 1
Presentations
November 8
The Legacy of the Avantgarde: From 'Aestheticizing Politics' to 'Politicizing Art'
Claire Bishop, “The Social Turn. Collaboration and Its Discontents,” Artforum, 2006.
November 15
Art as Product / Product as Art
Louise Benson, “Welcome to the LOL House: The Cynical Legacy of DIS“, Elephant:
https://elephant.art/welcome-to-the-lol-house-the-legacy-of-dis-10062021/
November 22
Presentations
November 29
Transparency Persistent, Lost or Regained
Erika Balsom, “The Reality-Based Community”, e-flux:
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/83/142332/the-reality-based-community/
December 6
Authenticity and Artifice: Performative strategies in Contemporary Art Practice
Claire Bishop, „Outsourcing Authenticity? Delegated Performance in Contemporary Art“, in Double Agent, eds. Claire Bishop and Silvia Tramontana, London: ICA, 2008, pp 110-125, https://monoskop.org/images/1/19/Bishop_Claire_2008_Outsourcing_Authenticity_Delegated_Performance_in_Contemporary_Art.pdf
December 13
Art and Anthropocene
Carolyn L. Kane, “Plastic Shine: From Prosaic Miracle to Retrograde Sublime”, e-flux, http://supercommunity.e-flux.com/texts/plastic-shine-from-prosaic-miracle-to-retrograde-sublime/
December 20
Seminar and consultation of essay topics
Learning outcomes
The course will introduce formative topics connecting the medium of photography with contemporary art in continuity with the Theory and History of Photography offered by the Department of Photography at FAMU.
Prerequisites and other requirements
None
Literature
Alva Noë: Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, Hill and Wang 2016.
Evaluation methods and criteria
1) 20-minutes oral presentation:
Choose a particular artistic oeuvre or some phenomenon in contemporary art or visual culture. Present it through visual material, explain why it caught your attention and put forward an argument why it should interest other participants of the course. Prepare 3 questions for discussion.
- written paper
deadline: January 7, 2024
min. length: 9000 characters including spaces.
Analyse in detail a particular artwork/series of artworks/art exhibition. Use other sources to support your analysis (use them to build up your argument or argue with them in case they support a different position). Please submit your paper by email to pledvina@gmail.com.
The final oral exam: discussion over your submitted paper.
Schedule for winter semester 2023/2024:
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Schedule for summer semester 2023/2024:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Photography EN - Bachelor-1920 (Required subjects)