6 ECTS credits
180 h study time
Offer 2 with catalog number 4001354FER for all students in the 2nd semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.
This course examines the tense relationship between contemporary art and the public sphere. Its focus is on critical and participatory art practices that engage in a continuous dialogue with the latest developments in technology, politics and knowledge production. The discussed themes include: ecological networks, collaboration and participation, ethnographic turn in art, ethnographic museum versus art museum, conservation and restauration of art. While prioritizing the perspective of the most recent debates, the course also looks back at the historical forms of institutional critique, collective authorship, and artistic engagement. During the lectures and discussion moments, our attention will regularly shift between artistic strategies and formats (installation and performance art, processual practices, lecture performances), socio-political debates (migration, climate, discrimination, vulnerability) and theory (both within art and art history).
A separate cluster of 3 sessions given by Prof. Francisca Vandepitte deals with the conservation and restauration of participatory and processual art.
The aim is to broaden the students’ theoretical and art historical knowledge so that they are able to situate the constantly evolving art practices in an interdisciplinary, network-oriented framework and to examine them accordingly.
Suggestions for further reading will be provided during the lectures.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 30% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Evaluation
Short presentation and response (individually or in group) during class as well as an oral exam.
Oral exam:
The oral exam consists of three questions. The first question assesses the knowledge of the theoretical contributions from the reader. The second question concerns a case study developed by the student. This case study must be determined in advance in consultation with the teacher. The third question deals with conservation of participatory art.
Within the category Exam Other, the following assignment must be completed:
The assignment consists of two parts: a short in-class presentation on a theoretical contribution (an article or a chapter) which comprises 20% of the final grade and a response to a presentation by other student(s) which comprises 10% of the final grade.
Category weight:
Presentation and response 30%
Oral exam 70%
Additional information
If the (work) student is unable to complete the assignment ‘oral presentation and response’, she / he must submit written summaries of two articles from the reader before the end of the semester. The length of each summary is 1000 words.
In the second examination period, the student submits the presentation and response in writing.
The exam in the second exam period is oral and consists of the same parts as in the first exam period.
If the student does not participate in one or more assignments, the final mark for the course as a whole will be an absence mark. The student must obtain a partial mark of at least 8/20 for each assignment to pass. Partial grades can be transferred to a later examination period within the same academic year.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Adult Education: Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Art Studies and Archaeology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: History (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: Art History and Heritage Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: Philosophy (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: Ethics and Humanism (only offered in Dutch)