Course detail

Studio I - Performance - winter

FaVU-B1PE-ZAcad. year: 2017/2018

The art of performance is the most expressive means of contemporary action art, the continuation of happenings, events and other activities. It is the borderline form of fine arts, focusing directly on the creative act in a spatio-temporal situation, in real time and in a natural environment. It is an inter-medial expression connecting traditional methods of theatre, dance, music, literature, fine arts and architecture. Rooted in the contemporary relation between action and environment its emphasis is on new media: video, information and communication technologies.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

15

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller

Department

Performance Studio (APE)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The studio's projects are based on independent artistic creation, which is presented primarily in galleries, museums and other public and alternative spaces. The studio aims to reach the quality of a basic experimentation process on an exclusive professional level, develops creative methods from sensation through imagination over inspiration to intuition.

Prerequisites

The prerequisite is defined by artistic and theoretic abilities shown at entrance exams.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Semester exam project.

Course curriculum

1st semester: STILL LIFE (object) - OBSERVATION AND VISION
the philosophy of "still life" - silence, emptiness, darkness - the major phenomena of dematerialization (John CAGE / Alan KAPROW)
direct life experience with the material world: haptic, tasting, olfactory, sonic and visual qualities
historical still life - treatment of the theme through traditional techniques: drawing/picture, text/description, theatre (objects as props) - semantic qualities: fetishism
facticity of things: collage, whole/fragment, documentation/archive
contemporary still life - captured by new media: voyeurism and visionarism
action - "still life"

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The Performance Studio develops the abilities to combine and integrate various artistic means of expression into the complexity of an artwork. The cognition and control of the methods of presentation results in the ability to enter and intervene in reality creatively.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Lessons are mandatory.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Kaprow, Allan, Blurring of Art and Life, University of California – California (CS)
Kaprow, Allan, Assemblage, Environments & Happenings, Abrams – NY (CS)
Kaprow, Allan, Childsplay: the art of Allan Kaprow, University of California Press - Berkeley (CS)
Kaprow, Allan, Michael Kirby, Happenings, Dutton – NY (CS)
Cage, John, Silence, Wesleyan University Press – Middletown (CS)
Art of Zen, Stephen Addis, Harry N. Abrams - NY (CS)
Black Mountain College, Mary Emma Harris, MIT Press - Cambridge (CS)
Happening and Other Acts, Mariellen R. Sandford, Routledge – NY (CS)
Happenings : an Illustrated Anthology, Jim Dine, Dutton – NY (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch APE , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller

Seminar

156 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. akad. soch. Tomáš Ruller