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Contemporary Art in Local Contexts
FaVU-4CALCAcad. year: 2022/2023
The course takes form of sessions with invited speakers, visits to art events, and field trips to museums and galleries. Students learn about how art institutions operate and examine structures that sustain them. Students familiarize themselves with life at the faculty and get acquainted with the art scene in Brno and beyond. The aim of the course is to introduce students to the local art networks and encourage their participation in them.
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2. Visits to museums and galleries in Brno.
3. Field trip to Prague and another important center of artistic life in the Czech/Czecho-Slovak region (Ostrava, Ústí nad Labem, Bratislava).
4. Sessions with invited artists, curators and cultural organizers from the faculty and local art scene.
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Recommended reading
Bradley, Will, and Charles Esche. 2007. Art and Social Change: A Critical Reader. London: Tate Publishing. Foster, Hal. 2011. The Art-Architecture Complex. London and New York: Verso. (EN)
Gielen, Pascal, ed. 2013. Institutional Attitudes: Instituting Art in a Flat World. Amsterdam: Valiz. (EN)
Hlavajova, Maria, and Simon Sheikh. 2016. Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989. Utrecht and Cambridge: basis vor actuele kunst and MIT Press. (EN)
Kolb, Lucie, and Gabriel Flückiger, eds. 2013. (New) Institution(alism). Oncurating.org. https://www.on-curating.org/files/oc/dateiverwaltung/issue-21/PDF_to_Download/ONCURATING_Issue21_A4.pdf (EN)
Möntmann, Nina. 2006. Art and its Institutions: Current Conflicts, Critique and Collaborations. London: Black Dog Publishing. (EN)
O'Doherty, Brian. 1999. Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space. Berkeley: University of California Press. (EN)
Steyerl, Hito. 2017. Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War. London and New York: Verso. (EN)
Zuidervaart, Lambert. 2010. Art in Public: Politics, Economics, and a Democratic Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (EN)
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