Course detail

Studio Follow-up I - Environment - winter

FaVU-M1EN-ZAcad. year: 2023/2024

The course focuses on the individual long-term student projects, realization of an art research project that results in the Master's thesis. The course helps students to select and apply adequate media of an expression. A critical discussion on the issues defined by students enables them to apply an appropriate theoretical framework, and to mediate them related approaches in contemporary art in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. MgA. Barbora Klímová, ArtD.

Department

Environment Studio (AEN)

Entry knowledge

Students have carried out several artistic projects, and have verified their experience in individual and collective exhibitions. They can uphold their opinions in a critical debate. They are able to evaluate their work in a broader context. At the same time, they critically look at contemporary events in art, culture and society as well.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

To obtain credits, it is necessary to implement the assigned studio tasks, to participate on the common exhibition, to edit the portfolio of your own work. 80% attendance at lectures is a natural necessity for graduation.
Accomplishment of the studio assignments, participation on the lectures, communication about the overview of cultural events.

Aims

Definition of a long-term artistic approach; realization of an art research goal; conscious choice and application of the media of expression; the formulation and discussion of urgent issues; orientation in contemporary cultural events in relation to history and non-artistic areas.
In the winter semester of the first year of the master's degree, students carry out their artistic research. They are able to freely choose and apply the media of their own work. They are aware of the theories in relation with their work. They confront themselves with similar approaches.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BENJAMIN, W. Dílo a jeho zdroj. Praha: Odeon, 1979.
FARVER, J. (ed) Global Conceptualism. NYC: Queens Museum of Art, 1999.
[GUST] The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1999.
HAVRÁNEK, V. (ed), Akce slovo pohyb prostor (kat. výst.). Praha: Galerie hlavního města Prahy 1999.
LIPPARD, L. Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
MARCUS, G. Stopy rtěnky, //tajná historie dvacátého století//. Votobia, 1998.
MITCHEL W. Space, Place, and the Infobahn, City of Bits. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999.
MORGANOVÁ, P. Akční umění. Olomouc: Votobia, 1999.
VIDLER, A. The Architectural Uncanny, Essays in the Modern Unhomely, The MIT Press, 1992.

Type of course unit

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

MgA. Jiří Skála, Ph.D.
doc. MgA. Barbora Klímová, ArtD.

Syllabus

1. Artistic research
2. semester work - test
The studio work is continuously complemented with tutorials within the department or with external experts, with lectures, and field trips to exhibitions, and institutions
in relation to the discussed problems. An integral part of the program is also study of literature and texts related to individual art works.

Seminar

195 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. MgA. Barbora Klímová, ArtD.

Syllabus

Výuka probíhá podle pokynů vedoucího ateliéru a v souladu s individuálními tvůrčími kvalitami studentů.