Pool 5: Art & Performance 

Performing Sculpture
Nummer und TypMFA-MFA-Po00.23H.005 / Moduldurchführung
ModulPool: 
VeranstalterDepartement Fine Arts
LeitungCeylan Öztrük
Anzahl Teilnehmendemaximal 14
ECTS3 Credits
VoraussetzungenCourse language: English
LehrformSeminar
ZielgruppenMA Fine Arts students only
Open for exchange students
Lernziele / Kompetenzen
  • Reflecting on the figure of object and figure of the objectified body
  • Delving into the concept of space and expanding its meanings in taking existing structures as material
  • Exercising on reflecting differently via art to experiment on existing structures and looking at arts in an existential stance
InhalteThis pool takes shape around the inter-idea between body of object and objectified body, in their exhibiting and performance qualities. By examining the figure of an object and the figure of the objectified body, we realise their significance within designated spaces, platforms such as stages and exhibiting venues. Exploration of the body's sculptural potential in performance and the performativity in the display of sculpture are the central theme of the workshop. Being aware of the significance of presenting in front of an informed audience, particular than the everyday performance of the political body.

Throughout the workshop, the concepts of space will be evaluated, including spaces of expression and constructed spaces, as they relate to the object and the subject in object position. While acknowledging the existence of object of desire and subject of desire, how the sculptural qualities of the body can be put forward to orientate in and interact with space, drawing upon formal theories of sculpture and performance. Investigating the ways in which artists, in performance and sculpting, can transform the physical and conceptual spaces, reaching, showing new orientations by using possibilities of disorientation.

Furthermore, the concept of reflection and its potential for creative reuse will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on cultivating an awareness of the image being reflected and expanding the possibilities of reflection as an exercise. Exploring artistic elements in performance and sculpture, and how these elements can evoke alternative meanings, cultural references, and narratives on a counter-reflection level to existing ones. Performing sculpture represents new artistic possibilities, where the concepts of object and body engather.



About the lecturer:

Ceylan Öztrük is an artist, lives and works in Zürich. She completed her practice-based PhD (2016) in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Istanbul) that she initiated her subject in Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna at Post Conceptual Art Practices in 2014. She received her graduate (MFA-2011) and undergraduate (BFA-2006) degrees from the Fine Arts Faculty, Sculpture Department at Anadolu University. In 2022, she received Swiss Art Award. Some of her most recent solo/group exhibitions and performances are "Wearing the Angles, Kissing the Room", Gessnerallee, Zürich (2023), "Sculpture Garden", Geneva Biennial, (2022); "Self-specular, a moment", Galerie Philipp Zollinger, Zürich (2022); "Matter of non", FriArt Kunsthalle Fribourg (2021).
Bibliographie / LiteraturWill be handed out during the course.
Leistungsnachweis / TestatanforderungMandatory attendance (minimum 80%); active participation
TermineTime: 09:00 - 17:00 o'clock

CW 03: 15 / 16 / 17 / 18 / 19 January
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