Art in Urban Context: SENSE-CITY
Working from the position of artist driven, artist initiated works inserted into the urban context; in both public and private space - Outside the Domain of the Institution . The city as an experimental lab, as the raw material – utilizing its very complexities, to navigate, explore, investigate and comprehend from new and changed perspectives – taking theory into practice.
This project will include the following elements:
• Mapping, with reference to Situationism, the Flaneur, Fluxus, Agit-Prop & Cartography.
• Artist strategies, as tools to realising innovative thinking.
• Performative workshop.
• Nomadic systems; questions of transience/permanence.
• The collective/the group/the collaborative.
• Investigate limnal space.
• Discussion of relevant articles
• Lecture series
• Visit to Bergen’s underground
• Audience identifying/building.
Lectures and presentations:
Situationism, fluxus & cartography
Peter McCaughey self presentation & Glasgow Student Works
FERRANIA. Performance video & Installation: Launder/Collura.
Richard Launder: self presentation.
Jefford Horrigan: self presentation & a performative, discursive presentation.
Øystein Hauge: various lectures.
Karen Kipphoff: self presentation & East Art Map, Moscow Conceptualism, etc.
Workform:
Process:
Via a brainstorming and radically hands-on methodology, students will explore their concepts, developing their personal contextual project through research, studio practice, fieldwork, and tutor guidance; a collective/group &/or collaborative approach will be discussed & where relevant, applied, Dialogue and discussion about how strategies, issues and positions are developed in relation to this current art practice. The project as a whole, is highly experiential; through this accumulative experience works can develop which manifest in a variety of directions: installation/sculpture/performative/site-specific/interactive/interventive/temporary/mobile…
Prequalifications:
Required knowledge:
Need for prior knowledge: Mapping, Contextual, Art in Official Public Space/Spatial Art Projects/Site-Specific/Architectural or similar, will be beneficial. Experience of personal, independent project-based work: installation, sculpture, performance and work in-location; together with drawing/photo/video/computer skills.
The course starts 02/11/2009 / Week 45, and ends 04/12/2009 / Week 49
Location: Place: Strømgaten 1, Drawing Room/Project Room: check back here for final meeting point & time
Provider: Akademiet
Speskunst
Target group: Akademiet
Foto
Grafikk
Keramikk
Tekstil
MA Kunst
Kuratorutdanningen
Target year of study: Bachelor 2
Bachelor 3
Master 1
Master 2
Kuratorutdanningen
Capacity: 14
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Related courses and lectures:
Experimental GeographyPhotography, Sculpture, Spaces and Concepts - Workshop with Susa Templin
Art in the public space