Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Nummer und Typ	MFA-MFA-Pr00.23H.003 / Moduldurchführung
Modul	Practice:
Veranstalter	Departement Fine Arts
Leitung	Lorenza Longhi, Doireann O'Malley, Francesca Brusa
ECTS	21 Credits
Voraussetzungen	Course language: English
Zielgruppen	MA Fine Arts students only Open for exchange students
Lernziele / Kompetenzen	Engage with conceptual and material aspects of your artistic practice and reflect on how your displays, narrations, atmospheres convey your interest and preoccupations with awareness Explore and experiment how to create the conditions for a project/artwork to be experienced with challenging capacities for the viewers Develop an awareness for the context surrounding your work and its interplay with material and ideological conditions in terms of production and presentation
Inhalte	In this Practice Seminar we will focus on your artistic practice, research, and interests. We will examine where your work originates from, why and how it emerges in the exhibition context, and which exhibition strategies best suit your work. This open and collective investigation will involve analyzing exhibition modalities and artistic gestures while keeping an eye on infrastructural discourses and their role in art-making. By exercising reading,visiting shows, meeting artists, and exploring locations, and then thinking and organizing how to exhibit within them we will explore how contingencies, representing unforeseen events or situations, can introduce uncertainty and create new possibilities or challenges. These contingencies may arise from external factors, societal changes, or unexpected actions by others. On the other hand, skills encompass the intentional actions, knowledge, and expertise that individuals develop through learning, practice, and experience. The seminar will depart from the different research and production methods, infrastructures and politics inherent in the practices of both of the artists Doireann O’Malley and Lorenza Longhi while reflecting on the students' practices. About the lecturers: Lorenza Longhi is an artist who lives and works in Zurich. In her practice, using a variety of media she addresses and contests the everyday as a set of standard functional rules, codes, and forms of signification. In her practice, visual elements taken from communication strategies and objects that have a specific role within our contemporaneity are reproduced and remixed together, using laborious craft techniques as a way to complicate their primary forms, empirically test and question their assumed neutrality. Doireann O’Malley (born 1981 in Limerick, IE) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Their research-led practice experiments with collaborative methodologies, meditative and visualization practices, writing, and theory, with a strong technological emphasis on new media; Virtual Reality, 3D and Video installation. Their work predominantly uses digital tools to critically reflect on the political implications and manipulations instrumentalized by platform economies while exploring the entangled experience of gender embodiment within the spaces of the virtual, the real and the theoretical domain of the history of technology, computer science, philosophy, queer and trans* theory, AI, quantum physics and spirituality. 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.
Bibliographie / Literatur	Will be handed out during the course.
Leistungsnachweis / Testatanforderung	Mandatory attendance (minimum 80%); active participation; semester report
Termine	Time: 09:00 - 17:00 o'clock CW 41: 09 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 October CW 50: 11 / 12 December Critiques: CW 50: 13 / 14 / 15 December
Bewertungsform	bestanden / nicht bestanden

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