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| 0662-5302-01 | Art & Action Between the Private and the Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
The complex relationship between art and action, as well as the tension between the art object and the artistic act, raise fundamental questions which bare increasing significance for art studies in the 21st century.
The course will examine the works of artists (mostly of the 21st century) for whom the elements of time and action are an essential dimension of their practice. We will discuss questions that have to do with intervention in the public space, with institutional critique as an artistic act, with critical actions in the museum space, with disruption of order, and with parasitism, and follow the various strategies of artists and researchers and their use of scanning techniques, archives, ready-mades and more. The course will ask: What are the materials which make up the artistic act? What are the conditions of its production and reception (its viewing)? To answer these questions the course will offer lectures, presentations, film screenings, class discussions, and acquaintance with a series of concepts in the study of photography, the plastic arts, and film.