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Course responsible teacher: Ann-Charlotte Glasberg Blomqvist ann-charlotte.glasberg@akademinvaland.gu.se 

Examiner: Daniel Jewesbury 

Participating teachers: Cathryn Klasto, Maddie Leach

 

Welcome to Contextualisation 2 (FRAKK2)!

The course runs over the whole semester and has two main objectives:

Firstly, to deepen your understanding of the role of the artist in contemporary society. You will be introduced to various artistic practices and methodologies, as well as ideas of democratic rights, censorship, and ethics.   

Secondly, the course aims to introduce and prepare the Masters Thesis Essay; this is where you shape your essay proposal. The course seeks to further develop your knowledge and written skill in defining and critically discussing artistic enquiries in different forms. You will be introduced to artistic research methods and methodologies, as well as critical citation practices. During the course you will begin to learn how to further advance a written research question which focuses on a theoretical topic relevant to your artistic enquiry. This essay proposal will form the basis for the Masters Thesis Essay which is to be completed in term 3. Through identifying and working with key textual and artistic references, you will begin to situate your enquiry in a relevant theoretical model.

The course Contextualisation 2 (FRAKK2) is complementary to Artistic Practices 2 (FRAKP2), and we will do joint course introductions and evaluations. The courses are planned in conjunction to create a learning environment that allows for focus and concentration. In order to plan your studies ahead, it will be useful to know that the spring semester starts in mid-January with a theory block of one and a half week, after which the practice course gets a larger focus.  

The course operates through five main teaching mechanisms: lectures, critical seminars, independent work, one-to-one tutorials, and student presentations.

 

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Course Plan and Literature List

Find the course plan for Contextualisation 2 (FRAKK2) here.

 

Literature list, in chronological order as the readings appear on the course:

Boothroyd, David. "The ends of Censorship", www.eurozine.com, May 26 2009. https://www.eurozine.com/the-ends-of-censorship/

Pinto, Ana Teixeira & Stakemeier, Kerstin. “A Brief Glossary of Social Sadism”, Texte zur Kunst, Issue No. 116, December 2019 “Evil”. https://www.textezurkunst.de/116/ein-kurzes-glossar-zum-sozialen-sadismus/

Black, Hannah. "The Painting Must Go. Hannah Black Pens Open Letter to the Whitney About Controversial Biennial Work", www.artnews.com, March 21, 2017. https://www.artnews.com/artnews/news/the-painting-must-go-hannah-black-pens-open-letter-to-the-whitney-about-controversial-biennial-work-7992/

Badiou, Alain. “Introduction”. In Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, 1-3. London: Verso, 2001. pdf

Bowman, D., Wayne. Artistry, Ethics and Citizenship. In Artistic Citizenship: Artistry, Social Responsibility, and Ethical Praxis. Wayne D. Bowman, David James Elliot and Marissa Silverman (eds), 59-80. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. pdf

Bruguera, Tania, Bishop, Claire. "The Artist as Activist. Tania Bruguera in Conversation with Claire Bishop", The Graduate Center CUNY.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4raYhes7OwI

Claire Bishop, “The Social Turn: Collaborations and its Discontents”, Artforum, February 2006. https://newsgrist.typepad.com/files/claire-bishop-the-social-turn-collaboration-and-its-discontents-in-2006-artforum.pdf

Morris, David, "Anti-Shows", e-flux, Journal #81 - April 2017. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/81/125364/anti-shows/ 

Leach, Maddie. "Part Two. Questions of method and concepts", excerpt from PhD dissertation, 1-31, 2021. pdf

Leach, Maddie. "Perigee #11 (28 August 2008)", excerpt from PhD dissertation, 1-9, 2021. pdf (for reference - skim through)

Leach, Maddie. "A dialogue with Martin Patrick about Perigee #11", excerpt from PhD dissertation, 1-15, 2021. pdf (for reference - skim through)

 

Seu, Mindy. “On Gathering. Collecting, sharing, and creating the Cyberfeminism Index", www.shiftspace.pub https://www.shiftspace.pub/on-gathering-mindy-seu