Visual Arts in Contemporary Cultures 20-KUDU-MA-VAE
The course present content as follows:
1. Visual arts and visual culture in the humanistic discourse.
2. Zofia Kulik - Image in a discourse of power and the subject
3. Shirin Neshat vs. Jenny Holzer – feminisms and cultures
4. Richard Prince – masculinity against popular culture
5. Damien Hirst – the body in the box. Post-humanistic turn in visual art
6. Eija-Liisa Ahtila – art as an everyday experience
7. Jeff Wall – the storyteller. Museum practices and politics of exhibiting the Others
8. Christian Boltanski - A work of memory at the threshold of individual and collective experience
9. Krzysztof Wodiczko – subconscious of a public space
10. Hubertus Siegert - a city as a palimpsest
11. Bill Viola – new media metaphysics
12. Banksy and Peter Fuss – Media as a form of resistance
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Learning outcomes
The course presents:
- theoretical concepts regarding to the field of visual culture.
- important artists representing different approaches towards contemporary art.
- a relationship between art practice and social and cultural sphere.
- theoretical texts on arts and how to apply an adequate methodology to analyzed problems
Assessment criteria
The course consist of the mix of lectures, multimedia presentations and group discussions based on articles.
Due to the change of the form of classes to on-line lectures, the form of passing the course is changed.
How to get a grade for a course?
Prepare a short (10-15 minutes) oral presentation presenting the interpretation of 2-3 works by the selected contemporary artist in your favourite field of art(painting, film, dance, performance, etc.) in the context of cultural theories.
The presentation should answer the following questions:
1. what are these works about?
2. in what cultural context can they be understood (e.g. feminism, public space, posthumanism, art and science relations)?
3. why do you think that these works are important (e.g. they are an important political message, relate to everyday life, comment on a social problem, etc.)
Avoid wasting space on the artist's biography.
Your presentations should be shown in MS Teams.
Additional information
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