Context: Introduction: The Image of the Artist (1st Semester) 

Nummer und TypBFA-BFA-KON-1.23H.003 / Moduldurchführung
ModulEinführung 1: Das Künstler:innenbild / The Image of the Artist 
VeranstalterBachelor Fine Arts
LeitungMartin Jaeggi, Johanna Vieli
Zeit
Time: 09:15 - 17:00 o'clock

CW 39: 25 / 26 / 27 / 28 / 29 September
Anzahl Teilnehmendemaximal 23
ECTS3 Credits
Lehr- und Lernform
  • Seminar/Kurs
  • Selbststudium
InhaltArtists are not self-contained, autonomous individuals. The social conditions and interdependencies produced different types of artists at different times. We will take a closer look at these changing movements, which determine the image of the artist invisibly, as it were. The seminar deals with the image of the artist.

The focus is on the verbal expressions of artists. Which image do they create of themselves? How do we weight such statements? And above all: What is the relationship between such statements and the work? Which social ideals and narratives influence these self-expressions? In addition, we discuss how the participants understand themselves as artists.


Martin Jaeggi (*1968) is an author, editor, curator and lecturer. He studied film and video at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and at the San Francisco Art Institute. Numerous publications on contemporary art and photography in newspapers, magazines and books.

Johanna Vieli (*1991) is an art historian, curator and assistant lecturer at the ZHdK. She studied at the University of Bern and Zurich. In her master's thesis she dealt with the subversive gesture of laughter in the reception of the video installations by Shana Moulton and Mika Rottenberg. Previously, she worked for the Kunsthaus Glarus and the Kunsthalle Zürich.
Voraussetzungen / ZielgruppenMandatory module Major BA Fine Arts students (The registration to this module is done automatically.)
Not open for exchange students.
Lernziele / Kompetenzen
  • Getting to know different images of artists and their position in the contemporary art field
  • Reading of different text genres (essay, interviews, memoirs, etc.)
  • Writing a first artist statement
Material / LiteraturWill be handed out during the course.
Leistungsnachweis
  • Aktive Teilnahme
  • 80% Anwesenheit
Bewertungsformbestanden / nicht bestanden
SpracheEnglisch
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