IM096 Art of Collaboration

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Jan Zálešák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Timetable
Mon 10:00–11:35 N21
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 150 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/150, only registered: 0/150, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/150
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
At the end of the course student should be able to describe key characteristics of collaborative art and distinguish various approaches to collaboration in art (art groups, community art, participatory art etc.). At the end of the course student will be able to identify resources of collaborative art and s/he will understand those in a wider cultural, social and political context of the time of its origin. On successful completion of the course student will be able to interpret selected collaborative art projects and compare how they differ in their intentions.
Syllabus
  • 1. Discourse of collaborative art. Distinguishing between "collaborative" and "participatory" art.
  • 2. Legacy of the 19th century – institutions of art and a role of the artist in society. Collaborative and participatory art in a relation to institutions of the art world (museums, galleries, art criticism). A journey from museum to everyday and back.
  • 3. Group ethos of early avant-garde. Soviet avant-garde and productivism. Artists as producer (Walter Benjamin). Czech avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s (Karel Teige).
  • 4. Participatory tendencies in art after the WWII. Artists from the Black Mountain College circle; Allan Kaprow and happenings; Vladimír Boudník, Milan Knížák and Aktual.
  • 5. Searching for the new forms of participation – Fluxus, Situationist international. Art as the protest - the end of the 1960s.
  • 6. The 1970s: measuring society – Hans Haacke; showing society – Stephen Willats; curing society – Joseph Beuys.
  • 7. New Media and the new forms of collaboration. Nam June Paik and „Zen TV“. From mail art to live interaction via internet: Cyber Café, Hole in Space.
  • 8. Collaborative strategies in art of minorities and in „public art“. Gran Fury, Gilbert & George, Guerrilla Girls. Suzanne Lacy and the New Genre Public Art.
  • 9. Relational art (Nicolas Bourriaud) and artists of its circle. Artist as a director of the social events: Jeremy Deller, Francis Allys, Kateřina Šedá.
  • 10. Hybrid forms: between art and politics. Activism in the art of the 1960s and in the era of globalisation. From streets on the internet and back again. PodeBal, Rafani a aesthetics of activism in contemporary Czech art.
  • 11. Community art – between therapy and utopia. Art in squats, guerrilla gardening etc.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • The art of participation : 1950 to now : the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 8 2008 through Feb. 8, 2009. Edited by Rudolf Frieling. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2008, 212 s. ISBN 9780500238585. info
  • Collective creativity. Edited by Birgit Eusterschulte. Frankfurt am Main: Revolver - Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, 2005, 383 s. ISBN 3865880894. info
  • FOSTER, Hal. Umění po roce 1900 : modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus. Translated by Josef Hrdlička - Irena Ellis - Jitka Sedláčková. Praha: Slovart, 2007, 704 s. ISBN 9788072099528. info
  • KESTER, Grant H. Conversation pieces : community and communication in modern art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, xiv, 239. ISBN 0520238397. info
  • Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny. Praha: VVP AVU, ročník 1, 2007, č. 1-2.

    Walter BENJAMIN, Agesilaus Santander. Praha: Hermann a synové, 1996. (esej Autor jako producent, s. 151–152).

    Claire BISHOP (ed.), Participation. London: Whitechappe

Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Fulfilling requirements: written test (approximately 30 questions, 20 correct answers needed to succeed). Lectures attendance is not required for awarding credit.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2011, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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