Course detail

Media of the Event 3 - winter

FaVU-MED3-ZAcad. year: 2021/2022

A course aimed at introducing important tendencies and personalities in the field of action art, which follows the thematically similar courses Media Action 1 and 2. The main overarching themes of this semester are COMMUNICATION AND CONTEXT (action art and the art/art world) and COMPLEX SYSTEMS (reflection on the relationship between action art and philosophy, spirituality; overlaps into lifestyle)

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Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: identify and summarize important features of individual works and collective action art movements; identify and describe current domestic and international artistic trends in action art; compare and highlight differences in the approaches of individual artists; apply basic terminology of the field to specific artworks; characterize current trends in action art; describe the means used to realize a specific action artwork.

Prerequisites

Basic orientation in art history. Sufficient linguistic competence to work with sources in English.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lectures and seminars organized according to a given curriculum. The seminar part consists of student presentations followed by a guided discussion.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

In addition to attendance, a condition for the award of credit is the presentation of a paper (15-20 minutes) with visual documentation (projection) and the submission of a seminar paper in digital form.

Course curriculum

COMMUNICATION AND CONTEXT - art world / art world
1. Law & Censorship / Anti Art:
Genpei AKASEGAWA, HI-RED CENTER & NEO DADA, Ukio MISHIMA,
Gustav METZGER - DESTRUCTION ART SYMPOSIUM (Mark BOYLE, John LATHAM),
Ai WEI WEI, SUN Yuan, YANG Zichao, ZHU Yu

2. Feminism & Gender:
GUERILLA GIRLS, Rachel ROSENTHAL, Mary Beth EDELSON, Judy CHICAGO, Suzanne LACY,
Ann MAGNUSSON, Karen FINLEY, Adrian PIPER, Janine ANTONI,
Cheryl DONEGAN, Jana STERBAK, Katarzyna KOZYRA, Patty CHANG

3. Politics & Social Intervention:
BLACK MASK, GUERRILLA ART ACTION GROUP, ART WORKERS COALITION,
J.J. LEBEL, Guy DEBORD, SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL,
Hans HAACKE, Stuart BRISLEY, Krzystof WODICZKO

4. Activism & Participation:
Lygia CLARK, Helio OTICICA, Franz ERHARD WALTHER, Lucy ORTA
Santiago SIERRA, ROSARIO GROUP, GROUP MATERIAL, Rirkrit TIRAVANJA,
Francis ALYS, Jeremy DELLER, Thierry GEOFFROY-COLONEL

5. Hacking & Tactical Media:
ANT FARM, GENERAL IDEA,
RTMARK, YES MEN,
Brian SPRINGER, Geert LOVINK / ARTS CATALYST (Heath BUNTING, Rod DICKINSON, Alexandra MIR)

6. Eco & Bio Art:
GREEN PEACE / Alan SONFIST,
Helen MAYER & Newton HARRISON / Peter FEND, Mel CHIN,
CRITICAL ART ENSAMBLE & Eduardo KAC, Oron CATTS,

COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS - Philosophy, Spirituality / Lifestyle
1.
Futurism - Filippo Tommaso MARINETTI, Luigi RUSSOLO,
Avant-garde - Kazimir MALEVICH, Vladimir TATLIN, Vladimir MAYAKOVSKY,
Surrealism - Antonin ARTAUD, André BRETON, Salvador DALÍ,
Bauhaus - Oskar SCHLEMMER,

2.
Dada - Marcel DUCHAMP / Anti Art - STURTEVANT,
Anthroposophy - Rudolf STEINER / FREE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - Joseph BEUYS,

3.
Tadeus KANTOR - The Informal, The Zero, The Impossible and The Theatre of Death,
Jerzy GROTOWSKI - The Poor Theatre, The Laboratory, The Theatre of Participation and The Seed,
Andrei TARKOVSKY - Stalker,
Alejandro JODOROWSKI - Psychomagic / Panic Therapy,

4.
FLUXUS:
George MACIUNAS & Dick HIGGINS & George BRECHT,
Emmett WILLIAMS & Robert FILLIOU, & Ben VAUTIER,
Jackson MAC LOW & Henry FLYNT & Al HANSEN,
Ben PATTERSON & Geoffrey HENDRICX & Henning CHRISTIANSEN,
Wolf VOSTELL & Dieter ROTH & Endre TÓT,

5.
BLACK MARKET - MOVEMENT:
SCHOOL OF ATTENTION / GROUNDWORKS - Zygmunt PIOTROWSKI,
OPEN SITUATIONS - Tomáš RULLER & Habíb KHERADYAR ZAMANI,
ART SERVIS ASSOCIATION - Boris NIESLONY & Jürgen FRITZ,
Zbygniew WARPECHOWSKI & Nigel ROLFE,

6.
BLACK MARKET INTERNATIONAL - GROUP:
Norbert KLASSEN & Jacques VAN POPPEL & Roi VAARA,
Alastair MAC LENNAN & Lee WEN & Jason LIM,
Myriam LAPLANTE, Elvira SANTAMARIA TORRES, Julie ANDREE TREMBLAY.

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Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The main objective of the course is to introduce key action artists and their significant works of art. The course content is organized as an exploration of the media of action art, structured under given thematic headings.

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

Overall, a minimum of 50% attendance is expected (or, in the case of online teaching forced by the epidemiological situation, attendance by distance learning); any justified lower attendance can be compensated in the appropriate proportion by the processing of additional seminar work submitted during the credit period.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

GOLDBERG, RoseLee. Performance art: from futurism to the present. 3rd ed. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011. World of art. ISBN 978-0500204047.
GOLDBERG, RoseLee. Performance: live art since 1960. New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1998. ISBN 9780810943605.
HENRI, Adrian. Total art: environments, happenings, and performance. New York, N.Y. [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr, 1974. ISBN 0195199340.
JAPPE, Elisabeth. Performance, Ritual, Prozess: Handbuch der Aktionskunst in Eruopa. München: Prestel, 1993. ISBN 3791313002.
MARTEL, Richard. Art action, 1958-1998: Happening, fluxus, intermédia, zaj, art corporel/body art, poésie action/action poetry, actionnisme viennois, viennese actionism, performance, art acciʹon, sztuka performance, performans, akciʹo mʺuvészet. Québec: Éditions Intervention, c2001. ISBN 2-920500-19-8.
PIJNAPPEL, Johan. Fluxus: today and yesterday. London: Academy Editions, c1993. ISBN 9781854901941.
WANDS, Bruce. Art of the digital age. London: Thames and Hudson, 2006. ISBN 0500286299.

Recommended reading

BERGHUIS, Thomas J. Performance art in China. Hong Kong: Timezone 8, 2006. ISBN 9889926598.
BISHOP, Claire. Participation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. Documents of contemporary art series. ISBN 9780262524643.
MELZER, Annabelle. Dada and surrealist performance. Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. ISBN 0801848458.
OSKAR SCHLEMMER, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WALTER GROPIUS a TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR S. WENSINGER. The theater of the Bauhaus. Thur S. Wensinger. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press, 1979. ISBN 0819560200.
RECKITT, Helena. a Peggy. PHELAN. Art and feminism. Abridged, revised, and updated. London: Phaidon, 2012. ISBN 9780714863917.
SONFIST, Alan. Art in the land: a critical anthology of environmental art. New York: Dutton, c1983. ISBN 0525477020.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUB Bachelor's

    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller

Seminar

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller