English

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The home faculty only

Students will gain an overview of the changes in the institutional structure of the art world over the last 25 years. They will become familiar with the major figures and institutions associated with the social and educational turn in the arts. They will be aware of the importance of the interest in archives and memory in contemporary art over the last 20 years and will be aware of the specific position of art from the former Eastern Bloc countries in the context of the “historiographical turn”.

A solid foundation in the post-1945 art and history.

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Lectures accompanied by the presentation of visual documentation of artworks and exhibitions are combined with seminars in which the teacher guides and directs the discussion of selected texts in the field of art theory and art criticism.

Credit is awarded based on attendance and active participation in seminars. The exam is taken by submitting an essay of approximately 1500 words. The essay will be assessed using the criteria of factual and linguistic correctness, ability to reason, and to work with sources and literature.

1. Developments in the institutional structure of the art world after 2000 (the rise of contemporary art biennials and star curators, contemporary art museums and New Institutionalism, latest developments in the art market).

2. Developments in the institutional structure of art world in post-socialist countries after 2000 – overview of selected organisations, institutions, personalities, events and issues.

3. The "Turns" proclaimed in the development of contemporary art in the second half of the noughties ("social turn" and "educational turn").

4. The 'archival impulse' and the 'historiographical turn'. The shift from a general interest in the theme of memory and the archive to specific questions of the history of modernity in contemporary art.

5. (N)ostalgia and contemporary art from the former Eastern Bloc countries, which constitute a culturally specific variant of a more general “historiographical turn” in contemporary art.

Each of these five topics is followed by a seminar in which a selected text is critically analysed in a guided discussion (texts are provided to students well in advance of the seminars).

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The aim of the course is to introduce students to the topics, tendencies and approaches that have had a significant place in contemporary art over the last quarter of a century. Knowledge of current art practice and themes that have resonated in major exhibition institutions should help students to critically articulate their own position and creative direction.

Teaching takes place in the classrooms of the KTDU FaVU in the hours determined by the schedule. Compulsory attendance (2 unexcused absences are tolerated). Making up missed classes is done in agreement with the teacher in the form of alternative assignments.

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„After the Turn: Art education beyond the museum“, On Curating, 2014, č. 24 (tematické číslo) Online (EN)
Barbara VANDERLINDEN – Elena FILIPOVIC (eds.), The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2005. (EN)
Bruce ALTSHULER. Salon to Biennial: Exhibitions that Made Art History. London: Phaidon, 2008. (EN)
Dieter ROELSTRAETE, “The Way of the Shovel. On the Archeological Imaginary in Art”, e-flux journal no. 04, 2009, online: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/04/68582/the-way-of-the-shovel-on-the-archeological-imaginary-in-art/ (EN)
„Educational Turn“, in: Curatorial Dictionary, tranzit.org Online (EN)
Elena FILIPOVIC – Marieke VAN HAL – Solveig ØVSTEBO (eds.), The Biennial Reader, Hatje Cantz, 2010. (EN)
Hal FOSTER, „Archival Impulse“, October, 2004, č. 110 (Autumn), s. 3–22. (EN)
Jan ZÁLEŠÁK, Minulá budoucnost / Past Future. Brno – Praha: FaVU VUT v Brně – tranzit, 2013. (EN)
KVOČÁKOVÁ – SIKORA (eds.), The New Dictionary of Old Ideas, Praha: Meetfactory, 2020. (EN)
Maria HLAVAJOVA – Simon SHEIKH, Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989, MIT Press, 2017. (EN)
Paul O’NEILL & Mick WILSON (Eds.), Curating and the Educational Turn, London: Open Editions a De Appel Arts Centre, 2010. Online (EN)
Piotr PIOTROWSKI, Art and democracy in post-communist Europe. London: Reaktion Books, 2012. (EN)
Zbyněk BALADRÁN – Vít HAVRÁNEK – Věra KREJČOVÁ (eds.), Atlas of Transformation. Praha: Tranzit, 2009. Online: http://monumenttotransformation.org/atlas-of-transformation/ (EN)