Master-Symposium: Speculative Futures: Are We Burning Our Past? Donatella Laura Ada Bernardi, Marie-France Rafael
3 CreditsMFA-MFA-Sy03.20F.001
Pool 7: PhD in Artistic Research – In Practice and in Theory Members of the DKM PhD research group:
Kamran Behrouz, Viviana Gonzalez, Bernhard Herbordt & Melanie Mohren, Eirini Sourgiadaki, Laura von Niederhäusern, Julia Weber, Kai Ziegner
3 CreditsMFA-MFA-Po00.20F.007
Pool 8: Excursion re:context NL (18–22 May 2020, Netherlands) Christian Hübler, Rabea Ridlhammer
3 CreditsMFA-MFA-Po00.20F.008
Pool 9: Excursion Bucharest (27 May–3 June 2020) Marie-France Rafael, Nina Kerschbaumer
3 CreditsMFA-MFA-Po00.20F.009
Praxis 1: Score/Scenario Donatella Laura Ada Bernardi, Marie-France Rafael
21 CreditsMFA-MFA-Pr00.20F.001
Praxis 2: TRAINING for the Ends of the World? Christian Hübler, Nina Kerschbaumer
21 CreditsMFA-MFA-Pr00.20F.002
Praxis 4: Beyond Knowing (II) Uriel Orlow, Rabea Ridlhammer, Christoph Schenker
21 CreditsMFA-MFA-Pr00.20F.004
Praxis 6: Is There a Post-Mediatic Sensibility? or: What about Escapism? Yvonne Wilhelm, Pascal Sidler
21 CreditsMFA-MFA-Pr00.20F.006
Praxis 6: Is There a Post-Mediatic Sensibility? or: What about Escapism? 
| Nummer und Typ | MFA-MFA-Pr00.20F.006 / Moduldurchführung |
|---|---|
| Modul | Practice: |
| Veranstalter | Departement Fine Arts |
| Leitung | Yvonne Wilhelm, Pascal Sidler |
| Anzahl Teilnehmende | maximal 9 |
| ECTS | 21 Credits |
| Voraussetzungen | Course language: English (unless only German-speaking participants attend the course) |
| Lehrform | Praxis-Seminar |
| Zielgruppen | MFA students |
| Inhalte | You can ask yourself, like Louise Lawler, "Why pictures now?" or you can actively indulge in Art's Post-Media Malaise while trying to figure out what it means to operate Art in the Corporatized Sphere. Given that, following the invention and preparation of photography, painting is understandably no longer the same, how does our universally-invoked digitality influence artistic production and practice, intentionally or unintentionally? Is it escapism when I concentrate on the materiality of my artistic practice, when I withdraw deeply into a studio practice and stand deaf, while my whole environment screams for competence in digitization and social networking? Is it justifiable to smile at the hype surrounding post-digital art, to smile at the phenomenon of the emerging "techlash"? Or are we all post-media-operators against our will? If that is the case, do you dive even deeper into the post-digital aesthetics? In this practical seminar, we seek to deal intensively with the entanglement of artistic/material production and media/digital representation. We will take the time to engage with the (post-) medial theories of Rosalind Krauss, Félix Guattari, Henry Slater and others and pursue the (post-)digital concepts of Melissa Gronlund, Hito Steyerl, Judy Wajcman, and Omar Kohleif. In addition to input and reading, two days will be spent on intensive material- and media-related discussion of your work and alongside your work. *** Man kann sich – wie Louise Lawler – fragen: „Why pictures now?“ Oder man kann sich aktiv der „Art's Post-Media Malaise“ hingeben, während man bestrebt ist, herauszufinden, was es bedeutet, „Art in the Corporatized Sphere“ zu betreiben. Es ist nachvollziehbar, dass die Malerei nach der Erfindung und Vorbereitung der Fotografie nicht mehr dieselbe ist, die sie einst war. Berechtigterweise stellt sich die Frage, wie die überall herbeizitierte Digitalität künstlerische Produktion und Praxis gewollt oder ungewollt beeinflusst. Ist es Eskapismus, wenn ich mich auf die Materialitäten meiner künstlerischen Praxis konzentriere und mich dabei tief in eine Studiopraxis zurückziehe, mich taub stelle, während mein ganzes Umfeld nach Digitalisierungskompetenz und sozialer Vernetzung ruft? Ist es vertretbar, den Hype um die postdigitale Kunst zu belächeln und dem Phänomen des aufkommenden „Techlash“ entgegenzulächeln? Oder sind wir alle „Post-Media-Operators“ wider Willen, gleichsam gerne, und tauchen als solche besinnungslos tief in die postdigitalen Ästhetiken ein? In diesem Praxisseminar setzen wir uns intensiv mit den Verschränkungen von künstlerischer/materieller Produktion und medialer/digitaler Repräsentation auseinander. Wir befassen uns mit den post-/medialen Theorien von Rosalind Krauss, Félix Guattari, Henry Slater u.a. und verfolgen die post-/digitalen Konzepte von Melissa Gronlund, Hito Steyerl, Judy Wajcman und Omar Kohleif. Neben Vermittlung und Lektüre werden wir zwei Tage lang intensive materiell-mediale Diskurse über eure Arbeiten und entlang eures Arbeitens führen. About the teachers: Pascal Sidler is an artist who lives and works in Zurich, where he was born in 1989. He studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Art and Design in Basel (MA, 2015) and at the Zurich University of the Arts (BA, 2013). In his practice, Pascal Sidler focuses on painting, often basing his work on photographs he takes of everyday life. His work has been shown in various exhibitions, including Kunststipendien der Stadt Zürich 2019, Helmhaus Zürich, the Swiss Art Awards 2019 in Basel, “HandySchlüsselPortemonnaie”, KOBO Art Space in Zurich (2019), “Werkschau 2018”, Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, “Horizons” with Kevin Aeschbacher, Reto Project Space in Zurich (2016), and “Mx. World. On the Million Genders of the Real”, Kunsthalle Basel (2015). In 2019 he was awarded the Grant of the City of Zurich and in 2013 the Grant of the Canton of Zurich. Yvonne Wilhelm is an artist (part of the artist duo knowbotiq) and professor, teaching at the ZHdK MFA, who has been experimenting with forms and medialities of knowledge, political representations, and epistemic disobedience. Her practical focus is on post-digital time-based formats, installative-performative settings, and research-led art. |
| Bibliographie / Literatur | Texts and other context material will be announced at the beginning of the semester. |
| Leistungsnachweis / Testatanforderung |
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| Termine | Time: 10:00 - 18:00 o'clock 21 February 6 April 7 April 8 April - Werkdiskurstag 9 April 4 May 5 May 6 May 7 May 8 May - Werkdiskurstag |
| Bewertungsform | bestanden / nicht bestanden |
