Institutions of Art
| Title | Θεσμοί της τέχνης και θεσμική κριτική / Institutions of Art |
| Code | ΥΘΘΤΘΚ2 |
| Faculty | Fine Arts |
| School | Visual and Applied Arts |
| Cycle / Level | 2nd / Postgraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600022835 |
Programme of Study: Interdepartmental Program of Postgraduate Studies "Art and the Public Sphere"
Registered students: 22
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artistic Actions and Practices | Compulsory Course | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| Historical, Political and Hermeneutical Investigations of Art | Compulsory Course | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| Academic Year | 2023 – 2024 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors | |
| Class ID | 600243298
|
Course Type 2021
Specific Foundation
Course Type 2011-2015
Knowledge Deepening / Consolidation
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600243298
- eLearning (Moodle): https://elearning.auth.gr/course/view.php?id=12153
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course the students are expected to:
* understand the function of the institutional framework in the arts and its role in the shaping of artistic production and the politics of art
* associate the concept of the public sphere with the character and the historical role of the institutions
* look into these concepts through specific examples
* understand the historicity of contemporary art through the history of institutions
* discuss the ways art converses with the institutions
* relate this discussion to their own theoretical and artistic work
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an international context
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Design and manage projects
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Respect natural environment
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course is concerned with the analysis of the history of the institutions of art, both Greek and international, and the understanding of their role in the shaping of the artistic production and the politics of curating and promoting art. It focuses on the critical conception of the institutional discourse as a field of pubic sphere and on issues concerning the contemporary composition of the institutional public sphere (curation, international art organisations,etc). With the contribution of invited speakers (artists, curators, art theorists and historians) this course is focused on specific case studies of institutional frameworks mainly of contemporary art, so that the students understand the broadness of issues related to the institutional aspect of art. In particular, this course addresses issues such as:
* the formulation of the institutional artistic framework in capitalism, and specifically in the period since the 19h century
* the construction of contemporary art as institution
* the exhibition politics and the role of curating in the shaping of art
* the multiple conceptualisations of the public sphere as politically activated space
Keywords
institutions, contemporary art, curating, politics of art
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Video lectures
- Audio
- Multimedia
- Interactive excersises
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
- Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Description
Teaching involves use of computers and systems of projection and sound for power point presentations, video projections and sound reproductions, internet, and the e-learning platform for uploading all relevant educational material (presentations, bibliography, etc.). Communication with the students takes place via email and the e-learning platform which is also used for the assessment.
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 20 | 0.7 | |||
| Seminars | 20 | 0.7 | |||
| Reading Assigment | 90 | 3 | |||
| Field trips and participation in conferences / seminars / activities | 40 | 1.3 | |||
| Written assigments | 130 | 4.3 | |||
| Total | 300 | 10 |
Student Assessment
Description
The evaluation of the students involves:
* presence and participation in lectures and seminars (30%)
* presence and participation in the relevant scheduled educational activities (visits to museums, conferences, events, etc.) (15%)
* assignments, presentations, exercises, etc. (20%)
* final assignment(35%)
Student Assessment methods
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Αδαμοπούλου Αρετή, Τέχνη και Ψυχροπολεμική διπλωματία: Διεθνείς εικαστικές εκθέσεις στην Αθήνα (1950-1967), Θεσσαλονίκη: University Studio Press, 2019
Αδαμοπούλου Αρετή και Αυγήτα Λουίζα (επιμ.), Κριτική + Τέχνη, ειδικό τεύχος “Τέχνη, Εργασία, Αγορά”, 7, 2019
Γερογιάννη Ειρήνη, Η περφόρμανς στην Ελλάδα, 1968-1986, Αθήνα: Futura, 2019
Γυιόκα, Λία (επιμ.), Μουσεία 06: Διαλέξεις και μελέτες για τις πολιτισμικές σπουδές και τις εικαστικές τέχνες, (Συλλογικό έργο: Σωκράτης Γεωργιάδης, Γρηγόρης Πασχαλίδης, Νίκος Δασκαλοθανάσης, Λουίζα Αυγήτα, Παύλος Κάβουρας, Άντζελα Δημητρακάκη, Σωτήρης Μπαχτσετζής, Ορέστης Πάγκαλος, David Carrier, Λία Γυιόκα, Ματούλα Σκαλτσά, Δημήτρης Μπαλαμπανίδης, Ειρήνη Γερογιάννη), επιμ. σειράς Ματούλα Σκαλτσά, Θεσσαλονίκη: Ζήτη, 2012
Δημητρακάκη, Άντζελα, Τέχνη και παγκοσμιοποίηση: Από το μεταμοντέρνο σημείο στη βιοπολιτική αρένα, Αθήνα: Βιβλιοπωλείον της Εστίας, 2013
Κανιάρη, Ασημίνα, To Μουσείο ως χώρος της Ιστορίας της Τέχνης: Εκθέσεις, συλλογές και η Τέχνη από τον 19ο στον 21ο αιώνα, Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Γρηγόρη, 2013
Altshuler Bruce, Salon to Biennial - Exhibitions that Made Art History, Volume 1: 1863-1959, Phaidon Press, 2007
Araeen Rasheed, Sean Cubitt και Ziauddin Sardar, The Third Text Reader on Art, Culture and Theory, Λονδίνο και Νέα Υόρκη, Continuum, 2002.
Avgita Louisa, “Art and the market of knowledge” στο James Elkins (επιμ.), What Do Artists Know?, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2012
Avgita Louisa και Juliet Steyn (επιμ.), Third Text, ειδικό τεύχος “Balkans”, 21, 2, Μάρτιος 2007
Belting Hans και Andrea Buddensieg (επιμ.), The Global Art World: Audiences, Markets, and Museums, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009.
Benjamin Walter, Για το έργο τέχνης: τρία δοκίμια, Αθήνα, Πλέθρον, 2013.
Bennett Tony, The birth of the museum: history, theory, politics, London, New York: Routledge, 1995
Bishop Claire, Radical Museology, or: What’s ‘Contemporary’ in Museums of Contemporary Art?, Koenig Books, London, 2013
Bismarck von Beatrice, Heike Munder, Peter J. Schneemann (eds), Now-Tomorrow-Flux: An Anthology on the Museum of Contemporary Art, JRP/Ringier, Zurich, 2017
Boltanski Luc, On Critique: A Sociology of Emancipation, Trans. Gregory Elliott, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011
Bonham-Carter Charlotte and Nicola Mann (eds), Rhetoric, Social Value and the Arts: But How Does it Work?, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
Bürger Peter, "The Institution of 'Art' as a Category in the Sociology of Literature", Εnglish translation Michael Shaw, Cultural Critique, No. 2, Winter, 1985-1986, pp. 5-33
Child Danielle, Working Aesthetics. Labour, Art and Capitalism, Bloomsbury Academic, (Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art), London and New York
Dimitrakaki Angela and Kirsten Lloyd (eds), Economy: Art, Production and the Subject in the 21st Century (Value Art Politics LUP), Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2015
Dumbadze Alexander, Suzanne Hudson (eds), Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present, Wiley-Blackwell, London, 2012
Gardner Anthony, Charles Green, Biennials, Triennials, and documenta: The Exhibitions that Created Contemporary Art, Wiley-Blackwell, London, 2016
Greenberg Reesa , Bruce W. Ferguson, Sandy Nairne (επιμ.), Thinking About Exhibitions, Λονδίνο και Νέα Υόρκη, Routledge, 1996.
Groys Boris, “Under the Gaze of Theory”, e-flux, No 35 (May), 2012, http://www.e-flux.com/journal/under-the-gaze-of-theory/
Habermas Jürgen, "Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia article", New German Critique, No. 3, Autumn, 1974, pp. 49-55
Meyer Richard, What was Contemporary Art, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, London, 2013
O'Neill Paul, The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, London, 2016
O'Neill Paul (ed), How Institutions Think: Between Contemporary Art and Curatorial Discourse, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, London, 2017
Roelofs Joan, Foundations and Public Policy. The Mask of Pluralism, State University of New York Press, New York, 2003
Saunders Frances Stonor, Who paid the piper?: the CIA and the cultural Cold War, London: Granta Books, 1999
Sholette Gregory, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, Pluto Press, 2006
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10-04-2024
