TIM_B_047 Media-action V

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
prof. ak. soch. Tomáš Ruller (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. ak. soch. Tomáš Ruller
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 14:00–15:40 326
Prerequisites
The ability to work with Internet and print resources in English.
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 60 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/60, only registered: 0/60, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/60
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main objective of the course is to acquaint students with key action artists and their significant artworks. It si organized as a research on action media in structure of given themes.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- identify and summarize the important features of individual works and the collective action art movements;
- Identify and describe current domestic and foreign artistic trends in the action art;
- create a text file in accordance with the citation standard and present a paper on a selected topic;
- to compare and highlight the differences in the attitudes of individual artists;
- to apply the basic terminology of the field to specific works of art;
- analyze current trends in the field of action art;
- describe the means used to implement a specific work of action art.
Syllabus
  • COMMUNICATION AND CONTEXT – The World of Art / The Artistic World
  • 1. Law & Censorship / Anti Art:
  • Genpei AKASEGAWA, HI-RED CENTER & NEO DADA / Ukio MISHIMA, Gustav METZGER – DESTRUCTION ART SYMPOSIUM (Mark BOYLE, John LATHAM), Ai WEI WEI, SUN Yuan, YANG Zichao, ZHU Yu,
  • 2. Feminism:
  • GUERILLA GIRLS, Rachel ROSENTHAL, Mary Beth EDELSON, Judy CHICAGO, Suzanne LACY, Ann MAGNUSSON, Karen FINLEY, Adrian PIPER, Janine ANTONI, Cheryl DONEGAN, Patty CHANG, Tracey ROSE, Jana STERBAK, Katarzyna KOZYRA,
  • 3. Politics & Social Intervention:
  • BLACK MASK & GUERILLA ART ACTION GROUP & ART WORKERS COALITION, J.J. LEBEL & Guy DEBORD & SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL, Hans HAACKE & Stuart BRISLEY & Krzystof WODICZKO,
  • 4. Activism & Participation:
  • Lygia CLARK & Helio OTICICA / Santiago SIERRA & ROSARIO GROUP, GROUP MATERIAL & Rirkrit TIRAVANJA, Thierry GEOFFROY-COLONEL, Francis ALYS, Tino SEHGAL, Jeremy DELLER,
  • 5. Hacking & Tactical Media:
  • ANT FARM & GENERAL IDEA / RTMARK & YES MEN, Brian SPRINGER & Geert LOVINK / ARTS CATALYST & Heath BUNTING & Rod DICKINSON & Alexandra MIR,
  • 6. Eco & Bio Art:
  • GREEN PEACE / Helen MAYER – Newton HARRISON & Peter FEND / Mel CHIN, & Alan SONFIST / CRITICAL ART ENSAMBLE & Eduardo KAC & Oron CATTS,
  • COMPLEX SYSTEMS – philosophy, spirituality / lifestyle
  • 1. Futurism – Filippo Tommaso MARINETTI, Luigi RUSSOLO, Avantgarde – Kazimir MALEVIČ, Vladimir TATLIN, Vladimir MAJAKOVSKIJ, Surrealism – Antonin ARTAUD, André BRETON, Salvador DALÍ, Bauhaus – Oskar SCHLEMMER,
  • 2. Dada – Marcel DUCHAMP / Anti Art – STURTEVANT,: Antroposophy – Rudolf STEINER / FREE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY – Joseph BEUYS,
  • 3. Tadeus KANTOR – Informal, Zero, Impossible and Theater of Death, Jerzy GROTOWSKI – Poor Theater, Laboratory, Theater of Participation and Sources, Andrei TARKOVSKIJ – Stalker, Alejandro JODOROWSKI – Psychomagic / Panic Therapy,
  • 4. FLUXUS: George MACIUNAS & Dick HIGGINS & George BRECHT, Emmett WILLIAMS & Robert FILLIOU, & Ben VAUTIER, Jackson MAC LOW & Henry FLYNT & Al HANSEN, Ben PATTERSON & Geoffrey HENDRICX & Henning CHRISTIANSEN, Wolf VOSTELL & Dieter ROTH & Endre TÓT,
  • 5. BLACK MARKET – MOVEMENT: SCHOOL OF ATTENTION / GROUNDWORKS – Zygmunt PIOTROWSKI, OPEN SITUATIONS – Tomas RULLER & Habib KHERADYAR ZAMANI, ART SERVIS ASSOCIATION – Boris NIESLONY & Jürgen FRITZ, Zbygniew WARPECHOWSKI & Nigel ROLFE,
  • 6. BLACK MARKET INTERNATIONAL – GROUP: Norbert KLASSEN & Jacques VAN POPPEL & Roi VAARA, Alastair MAC LENNAN & Lee WEN & Jason LIM, Myriam LAPLANTE, Elvira SANTAMARIA TORRES, Julie ANDREET
Literature
    required literature
  • PIJNAPPEL, Johan. Fluxus: today and yesterday. London: Academy Editions, c1993. ISBN 9781854901941.
  • MELZER, Annabelle. Dada and surrealist performance. Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-801-84845-8.
  • JAPPE, Elisabeth. Performance, Ritual, Prozess: Handbuch der Aktionskunst in Eruopa. München: Prestel, 1993. ISBN 3791313002.
  • GOLDBERG, RoseLee. Performance art: from futurism to the present. 3rd ed. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011. World of art. ISBN 978-0500204047.
  • JOHN, Gwen a Ceridwen. LLOYD-MORGAN. Gwen John: letters and notebooks. New York: Distributed in the United States and Canada by H.N. Abrams, 2004. ISBN 978-1854375018.
  • MARTEL, Richard. Art action, 1958-1998: Happening, fluxus, intermédia, zaj, art corporel/body art, poésie action/action poetry, actionnisme viennois, viennese actionism, performance, art acciʹon, sztuka performance, performans, akciʹo mʺuvészet. Qué
  • GOLDBERG, RoseLee. Performance: live art since 1960. New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1998. ISBN 9780810943605.
  • HENRI, Adrian. Total art: environments, happenings, and performance. New York, N.Y. [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr, 1974. ISBN 0195199340.
  • WANDS, Bruce. Art of the digital age. London: Thames and Hudson, 2006. ISBN 0500286299.
    not specified
  • SONFIST, Alan. Art in the land: a critical anthology of environmental art. New York: Dutton, c1983. ISBN 0525477020.
  • BERGHUIS, Thomas J. Performance art in China. Hong Kong: Timezone 8, 2006. ISBN 9889926598.
  • BISHOP, Claire. Participation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. Documents of contemporary art series. ISBN 9780262524643.
  • OSKAR SCHLEMMER, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WALTER GROPIUS a TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR S. WENSINGER. The theater of the Bauhaus. Thur S. Wensinger. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press, 1979. ISBN 0819560200.
  • MELZER, Annabelle. Dada and surrealist performance. Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. ISBN 0801848458.
  • RECKITT, Helena. a Peggy. PHELAN. Art and feminism. Abridged, revised, and updated. London: Phaidon, 2012. ISBN 9780714863917.
Teaching methods
1/1 lecture and seminiar.
Assessment methods
The condition of completion is in chosen term a presentation of the paper (15-20 min.) including visual documentation - projection, credit comes after the submission of the seminar paper in digital form, total of at least 50% of the attendance is expected (possible reasoned lower attendance is replaced in the corresponding proportion by the elaboration of the additional seminar paper submitted in examination period).

The case of exam is oral on a randomly selected topic from all topics of the semester.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: jednou za 3 roky.
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