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Problematics of Contemporary Art

Problematics of Contemporary Art

Code	13217
Year	1
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	15
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area	Artes
Entry requirements	No entry requirements.
Learning outcomes	This CU aims to be a space of interdisciplinary discussion that may permit a broader perspective on contemporary art after its confrontation with an ample set of topics, questions and problematics. It is our goal that it allows to: - Frame practices and processes on art in contemporary’s wider contexts; - Formulate questions of study and predict problems connected with the explored topics; - Interpret research results, finding and exposing conclusions in a critical manner; - Communicate ideas and results using (and integrating) a variety of formats.
Syllabus	1. Presentation. Organization and planification of the semester 2. (Im)Materialities. Object – Concept – Experience / From dematerialization to the return of matter within Media Arts 3. Creation vs. Production – hacking, swapping, remixing,… as creative processes / The continuous problematization of the artist as author 4. Site specific. From space and place as creation 5. Body specific. From the body as place of creation 6. Hybridism and contagion – The re-signified body / the stigmatized body / the invented body / the experience-body / the work-in-progress body 7. Gender issues. (in)Visibility and manifest 8. Critical landscapes. Graphic landscapes. Sound landscapes 9. Contemporary art’s inheritance of a commitment with reality and with its transformation 10. Curation, archive and ideology – challenges within contemporary art 11. Guests . 01 / 02 / 03 12. Magic Mountain Symposium – Art and Landscape 13. Cinema and Other Arts 14. Evaluation
Main Bibliography	ATKINS, R.(2013). Artspeak: A Guide To Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 To the Present. New York: Abbeville Press BELTING, H., Likeness and presence (Chicago 1994) BOURRIAUD, N. (2008) Heterocronías. Tiempo, Arte y arqueologías del Presente. Murcia: Cendeac DUPAIGNE, Bernard Dupaigne, Le scandale des arts premiers. (Paris 2006) GIELEN, P., The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude: Global Art, Memory and Post-Fordism. Valiz: Amsterdam (2009). DANTO, A., After the end of art.Contemporary Art and the Pale of History (Princeton 1997) ELDERFIELD, J. (ed.), Imagining the Future of the Museum of Modern Art (New York 1998) MEYER, R. (2013). What Was Contemporary Art?. Cambridge: MIT Press PAÏNI, D., Le temps exposé. Le cinéma de la salle au musée. Cahiers du Cinema/Essais, 2002 PARENTE, A. 2012. Cinema em trânsito. Cinema, arte contemporânea e novas mídias. Rio de Janeiro: Azougue. KRAUSS, R. The originality of Avant Garde and other Modernist myths, MIT Press, Cambridge 1986
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.