English

Not applicable.

Students will gain a basic overview of the requirements associated with such procedures as writing applications for grants and scholarships or for creative residencies. Students will strengthen their competencies in creating their own portfolios, artistic statements and presentations in English. By attending lectures and presentations by foreign visiting artists and art world professionals, students will gain a set of ideas and tools useful for presenting their own work.

Basic orientation in institutional structure of contemporary art world, knowledge of English at the B1 level.

Not applicable.

Lectures supplemented by workshops. The lecture part introduces the course participants to individual topics. The lectures will be followed by workshops focused on practical skills training, associated with individual or group tasks. If requiered by an epidemiological situation, teaching will be realised through the MS Teams platform.

Credit awarded on the basis of active participation in the lessons and submitting tasks assigned during the semester.

The syllabus of the course is general – in each academic year it will be updated and specified with regard to the possibility of inviting external lecturers / workshops leaders.
1. artist statement (optimal format, scope, what to focus on, what nobody cares about so much)
2. portfolio – presentation of one’s work in the portfolio (optimal structure of the portfolio, format of extended caption, brief auto-interpretation of one’s work)
3. description of one's own work of art / project (dictionaries of various media, sentence constructions, etc.); examples of different types of descriptions, good / bad practice.
4. artist talk – presentation of one’s own work (optimal structure, speaking on camera, speaking to the audience)
5. Grant systems / residency programs – an overview of opportunities and specific options in the wider region of Central Europe
6. Grant systems / residency programs – introduction of a specific institution and successful applications / projects

Not applicable.

The objective of the course is to get students acquainted with expectations and requirements common in today’s art world, or to strengthen their readiness to participate in it.

Teaching takes place in the FaVU VUT classrooms. In case of guest lectures place can be altered though. Attendance is compulsory (80%).

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Studijními materiály jsou v tomto kurzu především příklady dobré a špatné praxe – konkrétní portfolia, grantové výzvy a přihlášky, výzvy a přihlášky k rezidenčním programům atd. (EN)

Not applicable.