Ephemerals - Contemporary Art Practices & their Documentation
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 373ECAP | credit | 2 | 2 seminar hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 32 to 42 hours of self-study | English | winter |
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Contents
Ephemerals is a course for exploring alternative contemporary art practices from theoretical, historical and practical perspectives. After a lecture investigating a subject's methods & reasons we’ll “make something”, often in public, every second week. Art as a gesture.
But what remains? How do we document our practices? This is the subtext for our work. Art as direct action, with the idea of leaving explicative traces.
The course’s content will change depending on the students enrolled. Students gain an understanding of contemporary art practices beyond traditional mediums and techniques. The course emphasizes experimentation, critical thinking, and collaboration.
Course Structure: in one class we’ll have a subject lecture. In the second, the following week we’ll make an artwork following similar principles.
Learning outcomes
To introduce students to alternative contemporary art practices.
To provide students with a theoretical and historical context for these practices.
To explore different methods for creation.
To foster experimentation, critical thinking, and collaboration.
Prerequisites and other requirements
Attendance and participation in 70% of classes
Completion of 4 out of 6 exercises
Literature
Situationist International readings
The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space, ed. Don Mitchell
Participation, ed.Claire Bishop (Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art)
Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics, Shannon Jackson
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, James C. Scott
Direct Action, An Ethnography, David Graeber
Deep Listenng: A Composer’s Sound Practice, Pauline Oliveros
The Third Mind, Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs
The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
The Practice of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau
Dialogues, Claire Parnet and Gilles Deleuze
Documentation and the Information of Art, Marc Kosciejew, online article
Practice, eds. Marcus Boon and Gabriel Levine (Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art)
The Everyday, ed. Stephen Johnstone (Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art)
Evaluation methods and criteria
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Example Course Topics:
Pop-up spaces
Questionnaires and surveys
Artistic interventions, hacks in public physical and/or digital spaces
Activism
Daily practice and its relation to artistic research
Audio walks, audio annotations and sonic actions
Polemics, manifestos and detournement in art
Land Art as micro practice
Further information
This course is an elective for all students of this school
Schedule for winter semester 2023/2024:
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| Date | Day | Time | Tutor | Location | Notes | No. of paralel |
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| Wed | 14:00–15:35 | Eric ROSENZVEIG | Studio FAMU - VR LAB Klimentská ulice |
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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
- Audiovisual Studies - master_2021 (Required elective subjects)