Artes Visuais e Espaço Público (not translated)
Code
722011101
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
This seminar focuses on the main principles of communication and signification that come up in the field of visual arts when artistic practices are located in public spaces. Questions concerning borders, value, circulation and legitimization or visibility are analysed using case studies and based on references from the history and the philosophy of art. Contemporary artistic production has been based increasingly on discourse, documentation and displacement, allowing for collaborative practices of intervention with local communities with the aim to witness, document and preserve the authentic ways of life. By the end of this seminar the students should:
1. Know the issues mentioned above;
2. Be able to analyse visual artworks produced in complex contexts of reception in relation to aspects of signification that are specific to the discourses of contemporary art and the aspects that come up in arts engagement, increasingly frequent, with the public domain;
3. Be able to understand the different possibilities open to their role in artistic production in the public space;
4. Develop competencies of dialogical, cooperative and rhetoric communication, adequate to their level of study.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
The field of art and art as a system (its agents and institutions);
The practices of conceptual, installation and site-specific art;
The characteristics of discursive, displaced and documented practices;
Questions of circulation and visibility of the visual arts concerning legitimisation and the creation of value;
The public space as exhibition space;
Reception and the production of meaning in the visual arts;
Interventions in the public space: case studies;
The reinvention of artists social role in so-called collaborative practices;
The reinforcement of the artists authority through working with local communities.
Bibliography
ALBERRO, Alexander (2003) Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Deutsche, Deutsche, Rosalyn (1996) Evictions: art and spatial politics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Kwon, Miwon (2002) One Place After Another: site-specific art and locational identity. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lacy, Suzanne (ed.) (1995) Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art. Seattle, Washington: Bay Press.
Maio, Fernanda (2011) A Encenação da Arte. Leiria: Textiverso.
Teaching method
Lecture with dialogue
Small and large group dialogue
Case studies (systemic, reflexive and critical analysis)
Writing (analytical, deconstructive and critical)
Practices of real dialogue (systemic discipline)
Note: the effectiveness of any of these methods depends on the previous preparation of the texts given for each session.
Evaluation method
Reading and general theoretical research 20%;
Visits 10%
Oral presentation of own research 30%
Written essay 40%