Practice 1: The Carrier Bag and other Narrative Modes 

Nummer und TypMFA-MFA-Pr00.23H.001 / Moduldurchführung
ModulPractice: 
VeranstalterDepartement Fine Arts
LeitungYvonne Wilhelm, Uriel Orlow, Francesca Brusa
ECTS21 Credits
VoraussetzungenCourse language: English
ZielgruppenMA Fine Arts students only
Open for exchange students
Lernziele / Kompetenzen
  • Develop the skills to critically engage with your own work and that of others.
  • Gain an understanding of new concepts, modes of analysis, and methods of making.
  • Know where you stand - develop an awareness of the contexts of your practice.
  • Explore different modes of narrativity and performativity in and around the practice.
InhalteHow do the stories that we tell about ourselves and the world we live in shape our understanding of reality? What stories are woven around works and our practice? How can stories intervene in the past and change the future?

In this Practice Seminar we will consider different artistic strategies that shape stories with words, images and performative actions. Taking our cue from science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s short essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” we will explore and develop other forms and modes of narratives, alternative heroes and actions as well as different ways of telling, showing and performing. Through engaging with texts, workshops and sharing our practice, we will develop multiple formats of narrativity that mirror the diversity of interests, backgrounds and approaches in the group.



About the lecturers:

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 social imaginaries, visual regimes, and epistemic disobedience, with a certain focus on queer-feminist and post-/decolonial aspects. Her practical focus is on post-digital time-based formats, installative-performative settings, and research-led art.

Uriel Orlow’s practice is research-based, process-oriented and multi-disciplinary including film, photography, drawing and sound. He is known for single screen film works, lecture performances and modular, multi-media installations that focus on specific locations and micro-histories and bring different image-regimes and narrative modes into correspondence. His work is concerned with residues of colonialism, spatial manifestations of memory, blind spots of representation and forms of haunting. Orlow’s work has been presented at major survey exhibitions including the Venice Biennale, Manifesta, Sharjah Biennial, Moscow Biennial and others.

Francesca Brusa is a researcher and curator inquiring emancipatory practices in the arts with respect to labour and the social field. Her work focuses on practices that offer critical, antagonist perspectives; she sees artworks as instances that contribute to theoretical discourses like sensuous political propositions. From 2018 to 2021 she was appointed research fellow at the Faculty of Design and Art at the Free University of Bolzano. She is completing a PhD in Art Theory and Curating between Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Francesca Brusa is a teaching assistant at the MFA ZHdK.
Bibliographie / LiteraturWill be handed out during the course.
Leistungsnachweis / TestatanforderungMandatory attendance (minimum 80%); active participation; semester report
TermineTime: 09:00 - 17:00 o'clock

CW 39: 25 / 26 / 27 / 28 / 29 September
CW 45: 06 / 07 November

Critiques:
CW 45: 08 / 09 / 10 November
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