FF:TIM_B_044 Media-action II - Course Information

TIM_B_044 Media-action II

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

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: 0/60, 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

there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives

The main objective of the course is to acquaint 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

• SPACE (External Environment – Architecture / Mental Dimension)
• 1. Robert SMITHSON, Dennis OPPENHEIM, Richard SERRA, Mike HEIZER, Walter DE MARIA – LAND ART / intervention,
• 2. Richard LONG, Hamish FULTON, Andy GOLDSWORTHY – LAND ART / participation,
• 3. CHRISTO, Gordon MATTA-CLARK, Dan GRAHAM – Performing Architecture,
• 4. Joseph KOSUTH, On KAWARA, Bernar VENET, William ANASTASI, Susan HILLER – CONCEPTUAL ART,
• 5. Marina ABRAMOVIČ / ULAY, James Lee BYARS – Spiritual Dimension
• 6. Maya DEREN, Nikolaus LANG, Wolfgang LAIB – Myth and Ritual
• FIGURE (Body) – (Inner Space / Privacy and Intimity / Emotional Dimension)
• 1. Chris BURDEN, Vito ACCONCI – Male Body,
• 2. ORLAN, STELARC, HAN Xiao – Artificial-Cyber-Trans Body,
• 3. Valie EXPORT, Carolee SCHNEEMAN, Hannah WILKE – Female Body,
• 4. Yoko ONO, Shigeko KUBOTA, Charlotte MOORMAN, Alison KNOWLES – Female FLUXUS,
• 5. Sado Maso – Gina PANE, Bob FLANAGAN / Homosexual – FRANCO B, Ron ATHEY,
• 6. Porn-Prostitute-Erotic – Cossey Fanni TUTTI, Veronica VERA, Lynda BENGLIS, Annie SPRINKLE, Linda MONTANO, Elke KYSTUFEK.

Literature

required literature
• ABRAMOVIĆ, Marina. a Velimir. ABRAMOVIĆ. Marina Abramović: artist body : performances 1969-1998. Milano: Charta, c1998. ISBN 8881581752.
• WARR, Tracey. a Amelia. JONES. The artist's body. Abridged, rev. and updated [ed.]. New York, NY: Phaidon, 2012. ISBN 9780714863931.
• OSBORNE, Peter. Conceptual art. New York: Phaidon, 2002. ISBN 9780714839301.
• Schimmel, Paul & Stiles, Kristine. Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979. London: Thames and Hudson, 1998. ISBN 0500280509
• Byars, James Lee & Elliott, James & University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum (1990). The perfect thought : works by James Lee Byars. University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif
• KASTNER, Jeffrey, & Brian WALLIS. Land and environmental art. Abridged, rev., and updated. New York, NY: Phaidon Press, 1998. ISBN 9780714856438.

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

Study Materials
The course is taught once in three years.

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