COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+A+L (hour/week) | Type (C / O) | Local Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performative Research as a Knowledge-Based Decision Making Tool | DES 544 | Fall-Spring | 03+00+00 | Elective | 3 | 7.5 |
| Academic Unit: | Art and Design |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Prerequisites: | none |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Course Unit: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Ayşe EREK & İnci EVİNER |
| Course Lecturer(s): | İnci EVİNER |
| Course Objectives: | The aim of the course is to deal with art as knowledge production and the experience field for producing creative and critical ideas and learning use and awareness of opportunity for artistic thinking,expressing one’s opinions, visual perception,performative research possibilities, and imaginative thinking with the use of multi-disiplinary artistic tools in practice. Contemporary Art serves as a significant resource for students to extend the visual,bodily and sensual capacity to express themselves and to understand how things operate in life. |
| Course Contents: | The course involves learning and creating in the process through performative practices. Students study playing and researching with notions such as time,space, and movement. The major topics and concepts are creating space as a stage, playing with words, socially engaged artistic practices, identity problem within reiteration and the use of quotations, appropriation and French feminist theory of performance artists works, whether Dada is still alive, the Activist body in the public and Social body in the living room, performative writings, and performative readings. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: | -Lecture supported by images -Discussion -Presentation in any form such as performative reading,performance,performative lectures. - museums and exhibitions visits -searching in public space -visit to an artist studio - collaboration with other fields such as theater, sociology, philosophy, literature, science etc.... -Projects of any sort which are related to issues involving any media which can include creative writing and drawings as well as cross-disciplinary forms-graphic novel,performance,sound piece,digital piece,in a broader sense of new media |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introducing to the course | Examining the syllabus |
| 2 | The differences of Performance and performative,what is the artistic research and scientific research. | Reading,A Performative Paradigm for the Creative Arts,Barbara Bolt |
| 3 | ’Victory over the sun’’ and activist movement in the Street | |
| 4 | Performative readings from two different writers’ articles | Reading,Dreaming by the book,Elaine Scarry |
| 5 | Artistic photograph and journalism | Martha Rosler,John Baldessari,Gerhard Richter |
| 6 | Acting in the bus, fitness center,school,kitchen | Vito Acconci,Group Meterial,Adrian Pipper,Sophie Calle |
| 7 | Dada and Daily life and art | Reading,George Brecht Chance Imagery 1957 |
| 8 | Searching given artistic Works | Searching Contanporary artists |
| 9 | studio | Reading,Henri Lefebvre, Social Space,1974 |
| 10 | studio | Multi-diciplinary tools |
| 11 | studio | Multi-diciplinary tools |
| 12 | studio | |
| 13 | presentation | |
| 14 | presentation |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING
| Required Reading Jacques Ranciére,Özgürleşen Seyirci,Le Spectateur émancipé,çev,E. Burak Şaman,Metis,2008, Alain Badiou,Başka bir Estetik, Petit Manuel d’inesthétique,çev. Aziz Ufuk Kılıç,Metis,2009 Jacques Ranciére,Estetiğin Huzursuzluğu,Malaise dans I’esthétique,çev,Aziz Ufuk Kılış,İletişim,2012 Barbara Bolt,Yeni bir bakışla,Heıdegger,Heidegger Reframed:Interpreting Key Thinkers fort he Arts,Çev,Murat Özbank,Kolektif 2012 Documents of Conemporary Art,Whitechapel Gallery,MIT Press,Appropriation,The Archive,Chance,Particippation.London Giorgio Agamben,Açıklık,İnsan ve Hayvan,L’aperto-L’upmo e I’animale,çev.Meryem Mine Çilingiroğlu,YKY,2009 Art Now,edited by Hans Werner Holzwarth,Taschen Elaine Scarry,Kitapla Hayal Etmek,Dreaming by the book,çev,Bülent O. Doğan,Metis Eleştiri,2006 |
OTHER COURSE RESOURCES
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
| Semester Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance / Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Project | 1 | 30 |
| Extra-Class Activities (reading, individual study etc.) | 1 | 10 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total: | 4 | 100 |
WORKLOAD
| Events | Count | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload (hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Field Work | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| Project | 2 | 12 | 24 |
| Preparation for Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Extra-Class Activities (reading,individiual work, etc.) | 20 | 2 | 40 |
| Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes | 3 | 8 | 24 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 25 | 25 |
| Total Workload (hour): | 177 | ||
1 ECTS = 25 Hours Workload
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
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Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High