Pool 12: Lecture Series: Care, Disability and Art Marie-France Rafael, Judith Welter
3 CreditsMFA-MFA-Po00.23F.012
Pool 11: Art & Interventionist Practice 
Akwardness as a site of knowledge production
| Nummer und Typ | MFA-MFA-Po00.23F.011 / Moduldurchführung |
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| Modul | Pool: |
| Veranstalter | Departement Fine Arts |
| Leitung | Pilvi Takala |
| Anzahl Teilnehmende | maximal 16 |
| ECTS | 3 Credits |
| Voraussetzungen | Course language: English |
| Lehrform | Seminar |
| Zielgruppen | MA Fine Arts students only Open for MFA exchange students No registrations through our lecturers will be accepted. |
| Lernziele / Kompetenzen |
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| Inhalte | Awkwardness is a guiding principle in my process and artistic practice. I use my own body and feelings as a research tool, relating it to adjacent topics like emotional labour, consent, peer pressure and group mentality. It has served as a tool for discussion, as a way to mark the thresholds of social boundaries, and as a guide for the places that might be worth going. Awkwardness can be a way to identify not only what is interesting, but also what is necessary. In this course we regard awkwardness as a generative site that sheds light on convention and gauges intolerances. We will ask what awkwardness might signal, and what kind of insight it could provide on both an individual and wider societal level. We will touch upon how awkwardness functions in humour and entertainment (the place it’s most commonly employed), when it might veer too far into discomfort, and discuss the risks associated with awkward working. We will study a range of materials by artists and writers who often deliberately employ awkwardness as a tactic, and some for whom the awkwardness is a byproduct of something else. Students will consider awkwardness in relation to their own creative process and daily life through a flexible assignment. This can take the form of a social experiment, a mini-project, or through presenting an existing work through the lens of awkwardness. Students will share their work with the class and discuss together how awkwardness functions in each project. About the lecturer: Pilvi Takala’s video works are based on performative interventions in which she researches specific communities to process social structures and question the normative rules of our behaviour. Her works show that it is often possible to learn about the implicit rules of a social situation only by its disruption. |
| Bibliographie / Literatur | Will be handed out during the course |
| Leistungsnachweis / Testatanforderung | Mandatory attendance (minimum 80%); active participation |
| Termine | Time: 09:00 - 17:00 o'clock CW 22: 30 / 31 May, 01 / 02 June CW 23: 05 June |
| Bewertungsform | bestanden / nicht bestanden |
