COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+A+L (hour/week) | Type (C / O) | Local Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spatial Practices in Art | ARC 328 | Spring | 03+00+00 | Elective | 3 | 5 |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Art and Design Department of Architecture |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Prerequisites: | - |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Course Unit: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | - - |
| Course Objectives: | This course aims to investigate the role of contemporary art in social space, from space to the city, through the relationships between space, art object and audience. The course aims to provide practical and theoretical knowledge about new roles and strategies in contemporary art through a socio-political and cultural reading of space-oriented practices in art. It offers students the opportunity to expand and develop dialogues in these fields through the creative interaction of spatial practices and art. The course, which aims to evaluate the relationship between the artwork, space and audience, is organized in modular units for this purpose |
| Course Contents: | First of all, the first module will examine the desire of modern art to be social and practical despite its autonomous and limited structure. From this point of view, “Utilitarianism and Construction” will examine how the Russian Constructivism, one of the historical avant-gardes of modern art, brought utilitarian formations to art by turning to design through forms. Afterwards, we will examine the socially interventionist art activities of the Dada movement, which is a different plane of avant-garde art, and the presentation of objects found in everyday life against traditional art production techniques under the name of ready-made works, through examples and artist texts. We will contextualize the avant-garde legacy with the construction of a new art practice in late modern art of the 1960s that refused to present objects (artworks) that were deemed suitable for the gaze of the beholder, and instead focused on real relationships in real space. Continuing on from here, “Expanded Spaces” examines how the problematization of space in art was addressed through the concept of architecture in the 1970s and how art manifested itself in cultural, political and social spaces other than spaces such as galleries and museums with the contribution of this concept. Based on these references, we will focus on the internationalization of contemporary art in the late 1980s and examine the plurality of cultures and the universality of meaning within social and anthropological problematics. With examples from contemporary art, we will question why the social use value of art is still important today. At the end of the semester, students will complete their practical and theoretical research with the instructor with an installation work that carries the basic requirement of audience participation. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: | After the modules, individual and collective student presentations lead to workshops, emphasizing textual and formal research and the creation of different learning environments. In addition to visually and textually supported lectures, site and exhibition visits form the combination of the course. At the same time, presentations and interviews with art professionals who can contribute to the course content are intended to support and expand the scope of the course |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | Review of the syllabus |
| 2 | Autonomous Art | Reading Recommended Texts / Student Presentation |
| 3 | Utilitarianism and Construction | Reading Recommended Texts / Student Presentation |
| 4 | Expressions of Material Structures | Reading Recommended Texts / Student Presentation |
| 5 | Legacy of Avantgarde | Reading Recommended Texts / Student Presentation |
| 6 | Genealogy of Site-Specificity | Reading Recommended Texts / Student Presentation |
| 7 | Expanded Fields | Reading Recommended Texts / Student Presentation |
| 8 | Art and Forms of Social Exchange | Reading Recommended Texts / Student Presentation |
| 9 | Research Proposal | Research Proposal |
| 10 | Art and Social Engagement | Reading Recommended Texts |
| 11 | Presenting the Research | Developing Research |
| 12 | Presenting the Research | Developing Research |
| 13 | Preparation for the Final Installation | Spatial arrangements |
| 14 | Final: Research Outcome and Spatial Installation | Installing |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING
| Kwon, M. (2002). One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity. The MIT Press. Meyer, J. (2000). Site Intervention: Situating Installation Art (E. Suderberg, Ed.). University of Minneapolis. Kaye, N. (2000). Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation. Osborne, P. (2013). Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art. Verso Books. Gray, C. (1986). The Russian Experiment in Art: 1863-1922. Thames & Hudson. Buchloch, B. (1981). Michael Asher and the Conclusion of Sculpture. Performance, Text(e)s and Documents. Ranciere, J. (2004). The Politics of Aesthetics (S. Lotringer, Ed.). Continuum. Harrison, C., & Wood. (2002). Art in Theory, 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Wiley-Blackwell Finkelpearl, T. (2000). Dialogues in Public Art. MIT Press. Light A. and M.Smith J.(1997) The Production of Public Space In Light A., Smith JM,( eds.) |
OTHER COURSE RESOURCES
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
| Semester Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance / Participation | 14 | 10 |
| Presentation / Jury | 4 | 40 |
| Extra-Class Activities (reading, individual study etc.) | 8 | 20 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 30 |
| Total: | 27 | 100 |
WORKLOAD
| Events | Count | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload (hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Preparation for Presentation / Jury | 4 | 5 | 20 |
| Extra-Class Activities (reading,individiual work, etc.) | 8 | 2 | 16 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 47 | 47 |
| Total Workload (hour): | 125 | ||
1 ECTS = 25 Hours Workload
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
| # | PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 | PQ10 |
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| LO4 |
Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High