Art and research 2+1
Teacher: Brasoveanu Madalina
Aims:
The course aims to provide learners with knowledge of interdisciplinary approach of artistic practice. The course helps students to acknowledge and use the interdisciplinary dimensions of art research, to recognize the relevance of art for various theoretical fields (philosophy, humanities and social sciences), to recognize the relevance of art for the formation of the current society and its future, to recognize and analyze the specifics of artistic research, to employ critical thinking, organisational and research skills in analysis of visual art, to assess primary and secondary sources, their usefulness, reliability and contestability to resolve a visual art question, to apply principles of academic integrity engage with local, national and global visual art communities to expand knowledge and appreciation of visual arts, artists and art movements
Topics:
1. On the power of art / of images – a short historical overview
2. Art as a tool of investigation: in the hands of the historian
3. Art as a tool of investigation: in the hands of the sociologist / anthropologist
4. Art as a tool of investigation: in the hands of the scientist
5. Art as a tool of investigation: in the hands of the art historian / curator. How do museums create meaning and influence our understanding of art, cultures and civilisations?
6. Art as a tool of investigation: in the hands of the philosopher
7. Art as tool of investigating itself: from art’s autonomy to artistic research
8. Art as tool of research for artists
9. The institutionalization of artistic research: tenets, aims, particularities and shortcomings
10. Art as a tool of envisioning future(s): activism, anarchism, utopia, dystopia
11. Art as a tool of understanding present(s): socially involved art and art as a social barometer
12. Art as a tool of national representation
13. The art exhibition as a tool of art making? Debates around contemporary curating practices
14. Maurizio Cattelan – The Comedian, 2019: mocking around about capital and participation