Course detail

Socioart for Students in the BA cycle

FaVU-1SOA-ZAcad. year: 2010/2011

The "axis" of Copernican turn in art is the figure of Marcel Duchamp. The course refers to his work and to the cognitive, non-experiential and out-of-aesthetic orientation of art which was first mentioned by Duchamp. It follows the manifestations of contemporary art which are interested in the area of "the social" or which experiment with the area of science, especially with the humanities and social sciences.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Kaliopi Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Fascination by the material of human imagination, courage to treat specific scientific reasoning without respect, knowledge of the basic sociological methods of research, acquaintance with some art activities.

Prerequisites

None (sociology and sociology of culture are recommended).

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

Graded course-unit credit: paper (exploration or project).

Course curriculum

3) Instruments of social intervention
Methods and techniques of exploration (used for example by the sociology of art) are analysed as possible means of expressions of the construction of (socio-) artefacts
- concerned and unconcerned observation (active voyeur and passive exhibitionist, Sartre-like etudes)
- introspection, autopsy (self-reflective awareness, meditation, contemplation, diary), biography
- dialogue
- questionnaire, construction of questions
- waste analysis - collecting and assorting of finds, records, trace ransformation
- content analysis of textual materials (biographical and qualitative mathods)
- statistics, demographic documents, statistical yearbook, bureaucracy
- longitudinal research (film and photography, technological means used for recording changes and transformations)
- experiment (behavioral psychology of "rats and students")
- rumour, gossip, hearsay, peermedia
- garfinkeling - provoking experimental situations
4) Perverted forms of extra-artistic creativity
Literature:
Mašíbl, obzvláštníci, (Blažek-Olmrová, Vladimír Borecký)
Kutilství, sběratelství (Soeffner, Dubuffet)
Subkultury a kontrakultury (Rozsak, Hebdige, Willis) Graffiti, Tetování (Finke)
BROUK, B.: Racionalizace spotřeby. Praha, Architektura ČSR, 1946
BROUK, B.: Lidé a věci. Praha 1947,

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The course is not about the history of art and it is not instructional - it aims to establish a "pre-understanding" of the thematized phenomenon by means of an "imaginative sounding-out" of various symbolic spaces. Rational dispositions, a sense for playing and for the grotesque (which, by the way, thrives anywhere where unlinkable is linked) are an advantage. The training in "discourse switching" justifies participation of two teachers in teaching the course.

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

Attendance is mandatory.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

KREUZER, H. (Hrsg.): Die zwei Kulturen. Stuttgart Ernst Klett Verlag

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch AEN , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AIN , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch APK , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AGD , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AGR , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AM2 , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AM3 , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AM1 , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AS2 , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AS1 , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AMU , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch APE , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AVI , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch ATD , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch APD , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Kaliopi Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.