Course detail

Artists and Curators in Texts

FaVU-2ACTAcad. year: 2020/2021

Students will read and discuss selected texts by curators and artists reflecting the art scene; first part of the course will look at texts by historical avant gardes vs. conservative trends, the secon part will focus on the reflections by curators and artists on the institutional and political pressures that determine the undertataking of artistic projects.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Tests, essays, discussions.

Prerequisites

Upper-Intermediate and higher levels of English are required.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Seminar form. Each class: 1) written reflection of the assigned reading 2) group discussion of the text, contextualization.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Students will be assesed from discussing and writing short, in-class response papers about the assigned texts. Not having read those texts will count as an absence.
The answered quiz questions regarding each text for homework have to be uploaded to the shared drive a day before the class.
Students will be assessed from the regular, continuous work during the semester.

Course curriculum

1. Art in Theory 1945 - 2000 (ed. by Charles Harrison): texts by Novembergruppe, Octobergruppe.
2. Art in Theory: Dadaism: Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Georg Gross
3. Art in Theory: Sirioni, de Chirico - conservative, facist art
4. Art in Theory: Zhdanov and the doctrine of socialist realism
5. Art in Theory: Breton and Rivera
6. Brooklyn Rail: discussions on Dana Schutz's The Open Casket controversy (article by Brian Winkenweder).
7. Artalk: insights in Hungarian and Polish art scenes (Gergely Nagy, Adam Mazur).
8. The Art School (texts from the anthology: Ernesto Pujol, John Baldessari-Michael Craig Martin).
9. Who Is an Artist? Frank Bifo Berardi, Boris Buden
10. Adam Szimcik: Learning from Documenta
11. Hito Steyerl - The Wretched of the Screen (Is Museum a Factory?)
12. Karsten Schubert - Curators' Egg

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The course will show students ways in which sophisticated theoretical reflection of artistic/curating practices can be done.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Hybrid forms of classes - in-class (including individual tutorials) and remote forms of teaching. Students must attend 75% of the videoconferences actively, which includes questions addressed to the students during the conference both in written and oral form. The course is based on the students' weekly work, that is, students must have read the assigned texts before each class.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

Lecture

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová

Seminar

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová