Course detail

Studio I - Environment - winter

FaVU-B1EN-ZAcad. year: 2017/2018

The course focuses on individual students’ artworks and their relation to the environment, society, politics, and culture. It encourages students to develop their own authorial positions in response to the contextual project tasks. It helps them to choose and apply adequate media of their expressions. It teaches them to critically discuss their work in a broader context. It introduces them the theory of site-specific art. It mediates them a wide range of events in contemporary art and culture in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

15

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. MgA. Barbora Klímová, ArtD.

Department

Environment Studio (AEN)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

In the winter semester of the first year of the bachelor's degree, students will learn to develop and critically evaluate their own artistic work; they will freely choose and apply the media of their own work. They will gain knowledge about site-specific art. They are familiar with contemporary cultural events.

Prerequisites

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

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Presentations, lectures, tutorials, discussions, field trips, study of literature.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

To obtain credits, it is required to submit a completed artistic project, participate in a joint studio program, and edit portfolio of own artistic practice.

Course curriculum

1. An assignment concerning the selected urban issue
2. An assignment concerning a current social topic
3. semester exam project
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.
Study of literature and texts related to site-specific and conceptual art is also an integral part of the program.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Students will be encouraged to acquire regular studio working habits, the ability to artistically respond to the project tasks; they will practice to articulate in a range of different media; they will learn to select and apply appropriate media of self-expression; they will learn to verbally evaluate their own art work, formulate opinions; have a sense of orientation in contemporary cultural events in relation to art history as well as to non-artistic areas of interest.

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

Submission of assigned projects, attendance, communicating about the overview of cultural events

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

MORGANOVÁ, P. Akční umění. Olomouc: Votobia, 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.
MITCHEL W. Space, Place, and the Infobahn, City of Bits. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999.
PIOTROWSKY, P. In the Shadow of Yalta. Art and the Avant-Garde in Eastern Europe 1945–1989. London: Reaktion Books, 2009.
VIDLER, A. The Architectural Uncanny, Essays in the Modern Unhomely, The MIT Press, 1992.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

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

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. MgA. Barbora Klímová, ArtD.

Seminar

156 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. MgA. Barbora Klímová, ArtD.