Course detail

Master's Studio 4

FaVU-2ATE4Acad. year: 2024/2025

Alongside the diploma seminars, the studio is a fundamental creative subject in the study programme. Its central focus is the students' own artistic practice. The studio provides them with the material conditions for this practice, given the specific space and the specific media or technological focus. It provides them with a welcoming and stimulating environment for reflection and contextualisation of their own creative intentions in continuous communication with the teachers and other students.

The studio is run by a pair of head teachers. Students work individually on the conception and realization of their own master's project. They are also motivated to collaborate with other students and with individuals outside the studio, including genre, concept and disciplinary overlaps. In their work, they respects the ethical rules agreed by the group, based on the fundamental principles of equal rights and opportunities, respect for others, solidarity and ecological sustainability. Students take good care of the shared space.

In the realization of partial and more complex authorial outputs associated with the master's project, students deepen their conceptual thinking about their work, technical skills and knowledge of relevant material processes or technological procedures, and the ability to verbally articulate their own artistic intention, the confidence to negotiate their position as artists, an orientation to relevant theoretical approaches and disciplines, an overview of issues in contemporary art and wider public debate, and the ability to critically evaluate and contextualise their own creative practice.

The timetable and specific content of the studio practice, teaching methods and criteria and methods of evaluation are defined in the introductory classes of each semester. They thus reflect the composition of the students in the studio as well as the current artistic, social and environmental context.

The assignment or topic of the studio practice is determined by personal agreement between the students and the responsible teachers. The creative process is accompanied by continuous presentations and consultations. Consultations can take place collectively in the form of periodic studio meetings or individually. Learners are also encouraged to consult their creative practice with other figures working in the field. Technological and theoretical support for work on studio projects is provided by supervisors in collaboration with the cabinets and the KTDU.

The Master’s Studio 4 course is intended to provide the student with suitable conditions for completing work on the Master's project. Attention is fully devoted to individual work, its possible collective and interdisciplinary overlaps, consultations with supervisors and consultants with regard to the finalization of the project, its presentation and documentation.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Mgr. Václav Magid

Department

Faculty of Fine Arts (FaVU)

Entry knowledge

Master’s Studio 1, 2, and 3.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Evaluation of student work is ongoing throughout the semester in the form of verbal feedback. It is optional to invite external experts in the field or other FaVU teachers or other members of the academic community to give in-depth or additional feedback one or several times per semester. At the end of the semester, the work is evaluated by awarding credit. The following conditions are set for the award of credit:

Regular attendance at classes (75 % attendance) or its compensation in a form determined by individual agreement with the lecturers;
Active participation in the studio programme beyond the regular studo meetings (mock presentations with external guests, outdoor courses, workshops, lectures, visits to exhibitions, excursions, meetings in the online space, etc.);
Ongoing work on the Master's project;
Meaningful use of the material and intellectual background of the studio for work on the master's project;
Demonstrated interest in contemporary art with interdisciplinary overlap.

Classes take place in the studio space at FaVU, or at other locations according to the current program. Attendance at the class is mandatory (75 % attendance at regular studio meetings is mandatory). If the class includes mock presentations with external guests, outdoor courses, workshops, lectures, visits to exhibitions, excursions, online meetings, etc., attendance at these activities is also mandatory. Higher absences can be compensated for in an individually determined way in agreement with the teachers.

Aims

The aim of the course is to provide students with material conditions and a friendly and stimulating environment for artistic development. Through the continuous realization of artistic outputs and their consultation, students are to deepen their ability to think conceptually about their own work, technical skills and theoretical overview, which will allow them to mature into independent and critically thinking creative personalities.

Students will deepen their knowledge and skills that should allow them to mature into independent and critically thinking creative individuals, such as conceptual thinking about their work, technical skills and knowledge of relevant material processes or technological procedures, the ability to verbally articulate their own artistic intentions, the confidence to negotiate their position as an artist, an orientation to relevant theoretical approaches and disciplines, an overview of issues in contemporary art and wider public debate, and the ability to critically evaluate and contextualise their own creative practice.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Hal FOSTER – Rosalind KRAUSSOVÁ – Yve-Alain BOIS – Benjamin H. D. BUCHLOH, Umění po roce 1900. Modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus, Praha: Slovart 2007
Helena BENDOVÁ – Matěj STRNAD (eds.), Společenské vědy a audiovize, Praha: NAMU 2014.
Paulo FREIRE, Pedagogika utlačovaných, Praha: Neklid 2022

Recommended reading

Carola DERTNIG – Felicitas THUN-HOHENSTEIN (eds.), Performing the Sentence. Research and Teaching in Performative Fine Arts, Berlín: Sternberg 2014
Carola DERTNIG et al., Troubling Research. Performing Knowledge in the Arts, Berlín: Sternberg 2014
Florian MALZACHER – Pelin TAN – Ahmet Ögüt (eds.), The Silent University. Towards a Transversal Pedagogy, Berlín: Sternberg 2016
Institut úzkosti. 2021. Kvíření jazyka českého: O užívání genderově inkluzivního jazyka v institucích a organizacích. http://www.institutuzkosti.cz/events/kvireni-jazyka-ceskeho-videozaznam-online-diskuse?src=cz
James ELKINS (ed.), Artists with PhDs. On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art, Washington, DC: New Academia 2014
Jan SVENUNGSSON, Umelec a písanie, Bratislava: Slovart – VŠVU 2013
Jeroen LUTTERS – Mike BAL (eds.), Visual Thinking with Mieke Bal, Amsterdam: Valiz 2018
Julian KLEIN, What Is Artistic Research?, JAR — Journal for Artistic Research, April 23. https://www.jar-online.net/what-artistic-research
Nelson GOODMAN, Jazyky umění. Praha: Academia, 2007.
Pascal GIELEN – Paul DE BRUYNE (eds.), Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm, Amsterdam: Valiz 2012
Patricia LEAVY (ed.), Handbook of Arts-Based Research, New York: Guilford Press 2019
Renate LORENZ (ed.), Not Now! Now! Chronopolitics, Art & Research, Berlín: Sternberg 2014
Sam THORNE (ed.), School. A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education, Berlín: Sternberg 2017
Wouter DAVIDTS – Kim PAICE (eds.), The Fall of the Studio. Artists at Work, Amsterdam: Valiz 2009

Classification of course in study plans

Programme VUM_M Master's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

Studio work

130 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

In the first classes, the agreement between the leaders and the learners establishes:

the schedule and topics for the semester, including individual and/or collective assignments,
teaching methods,
criteria and methods of assessment.

Ongoing throughout the semester:

individual and/or collective work by students to complete their own creative projects,
presentation and consultation of partial outputs or work in progress of a larger project collectively and/or individually (as personally agreed between students and supervisors),
periodic studio meetings, the central focus of which is reflection on the individual and/or group artistic practice of the students, but which may also include discussion of current issues in contemporary art, theory or wider public debate.

The studio programme may also include:

mock presentations ('critiques') with external guests,,
outdoor course,
workshops,
lectures,
visits to exhibitions,
excursions,
online meetings.

Towards the end of the semester, the studio is adapted to the preparations for the Public Presentation of Semester Works.

The last hours are devoted to recapitulating the past semester and giving feedback on the work of individual students during the semester.