Introduction Regarding Programme Topics: Art

Eva Maria Stadler
Institut für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Cross-Disciplinary Strategies
2017W, Vorlesungen (VO), 1.0 SemStd., LV-Nr. S02144

Beschreibung

Introduction Regarding Programme Topics: Art

 

Eva Maria Stadler and Edith Futscher

 

 

In the introduction we will present contemporary and historical frameworks within which art operates. Against the specific political and historical backdrop of selected artworks we will discuss them with refernce to the discourses of freedom, original and copy, abstraction, alienation and defamiliarisation, concept, performance, and participation. As our aim is to develop a cross-disciplinary view, we will look at how the artistic strategies employed correspond to philosophy, sociology, economics, and politics.

 

 

1 Freedom

The culture of democracy in inconceivable without taking liberty and freedom into account. They affect the individual just as much as the individual’s relationship to ethics, the state, and government. In the arts liberty and freedom occupy a central position because they develop and reveal tensions existing between the social and the subjective, between aesthetics and the sphere of politics.

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2 The Original, Duplicates, Multiples without an Original, and Fakes in the Making

The reputation of copies and fakes alters in turning from reporting and information to aesthetics, although authenticity is problematic for each of these fields. This lecture will discuss the legitimation of an icon as a true copy in Byzantium, the everyday routine of transcription in ancient and medieval times, the cult of the original and its concomitant forgery in the Modern period, as well as old and new media that are intrinsically multiple, such as graphic reproduction, photography, and film. To conclude, with appropriation in art in mind, we will look at the possibilities of repetition and the way it was discredited in Modernism.

 

3 Abstraction

Abstraction is a concept that can describe the endeavour to achieve autonomy as well as the relations of exchange in economics. In the digital age abstraction gains a further dimension which makes engaging with this concept an absolute necessity.

 

 

 

4 Alienation and Defamiliarisation Especially in view of today’s imperative to identify, for example, with one’s employer and with the dominant societal idea, the lecture will focus on artistic strategies to create the experience of distance, detachment, and alienation. Avant-garde artists in particular attempted to disrupt felt connections and extensions sought after, to dissipate false identifications by means of cutting and montage, and by de-familiarising, exaggerating, or reversing objects.

 

 

5 Concept Art

Considering the power exerted by ideas and meanings, it is obvious that Conceptual art brought and is still bringing massive changes. Conceptual art challenges the traditional notion of the artwork as a unique object as well as the viewer’s mechanisms of perception . Issues of immateriality, repetition and iteration, information and mediatisation are bringing art and science closer together.

 

 

6 Performance

It is quite obvious that, up to the present-day, performance appears in the history of twentieth-century art always when it is a matter of breaking down categories, when the machine meets the body, when time and space are reach out into other dimensions, or when work is transforming itself. The polymorphic meanings of the term “performance” constitutes the imagination by creating a permissive, open-ended medium, which transgresses the borders of art and life.

 

 

7 Participation

It is not a coincidence that since the 1990s, participation, collaboration, and cooperation became increasingly important strategies with the rise of neoliberalism. Socially engaged or community-based projects sought to counteract unfettered capitalism. Even if some of these projects do lose perspective on major political structures and contexts one must cause the debate on questions of the public and the private, of authorship and spectatorship, and of the relation of active and passive.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prüfungsmodalitäten

Oral Talks

Termine

12. Oktober 2017, 12:45–13:30 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room
19. Oktober 2017, 12:45–13:30 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room
09. November 2017, 12:00–13:30 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room , „Canceled because of illness“
16. November 2017, 12:00–13:30 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room
23. November 2017, 12:00–13:30 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room
30. November 2017, 12:45–13:30 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room
07. Dezember 2017, 12:45–13:30 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room
11. Jänner 2018, 12:45–13:30 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room
18. Jänner 2018, 12:00–13:30 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room
25. Jänner 2018, 12:00–13:30 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room , „Oral Talks“ (Prüfung)
01. Februar 2018, 15:30–17:00 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies – Lecture Room (Prüfung)

Mitbelegung: möglich

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