13448
Graduate Course
SoSe 19: Post-Studio Art: Sites, Networks, Eco-Systems
Eric de Bruyn
Additional information / Pre-requisites
The class will mostly be taught in English, however papers and presentations can be done in German.
Comments
Post-Studio Art is a term that originally refers to a mode of conceptual art practice which made the necessity of having an artist’s studio obsolete due to the fact that artists realized their work in language or they worked in a ‘site-specific’ manner on location. It is the latter sense of the word that we will focus on, investigating a series of ways in which artists expanded their field of practice beyond the frame of painting (or the sculptural object) in order to actively engage with the spatial and/or social surroundings of the work of art. We shall start our investigation with a brief look at ‘installation art’ in the context of the historical avant-garde (Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitzky), but focus on the 1960s (Happenings, Environments, Minimal art, etc.) and its aftermath. Various spatial concepts shall be discussed – milieu, site-specificity, installation, systems, networks -- in relation to specific art works, ending upon a consideration of a critical term that is central to current debates in contemporary art and media theory: ‘ecology.’ close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2019-04-10 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-04-17 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-04-24 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-05-08 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-05-15 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-05-22 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-05-29 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-06-05 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-06-12 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-06-19 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-06-26 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-07-03 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-07-10 14:00 - 16:00