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Gastprof. Mary Jane Jacob
Gastprof. Dr. Mika Hannula
Nadin Reschke, MFA
Project
"Making Modern: Research, Intuition and Cooperation"
(18 Credits)
The Bauhaus story is an international one and since the days of its founding in Weimar, headquarters in Dessau, and siting in Berlin, it has influenced pedagogical thought, stylistic trends, and modes of making-providing new models for multidisciplinary learning and interdisciplinary dialogue. As an inspiration, it has assertively ushered in practices aimed art modernizing through their practical efficiency and social concern.
For spring 2009, these skills have been identified: (a.) artist's project research, (b.) artist's intuition and self understanding, as well as perceptions on audience or viewers, (c.) critical thinking on modernism, and (d.) collaborative/cooperative group processes of working. These skills will be applied in written assignments and in the development and implementation of an individual (personal) project on the German Bauhaus in Weimar (May), a collective group) project as part of the Chicago Bauhaus Labs (June), and the representation in group and/or solo ways in the Rundgang (July).
Chicago Bauhaus Labs, three-week course:
May 26-June 12, 2009 in Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall
On the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary and Chicago Modern Year
László Moholy-Nagy established "The New Bauhaus" in Chicago in 1937; its descendent school, the Institute of Design, now at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). This course will revisit the intensive summer sessions initiated in Chicago by Moholy in which a collective of teachers offered a broad, multi-disciplinary view.
Addressed to: MFA participants
Dates: to be announced
Location: MFA-rooms, Haus 4
Start: April 1, 2009
Guest Prof. Mary Jane Jacob
Guest Prof. Mika Hannula
Lisa Glauer, MFA/MS
Graduate Seminar
“Critical Thinking on the Modern”
(8 Credits)
The graduate seminar in this semester will be team taught by the DAAD-Ré Soupault guest professors Mary Jane Jacob and Mika Hannula. The graduate seminar will be taught in lecture, seminar and excursion form. Please see the curriculum for details, required literature and schedule.
The aim is to focus on the phenomena of Bauhaus through the whole semester. The focus is on both the pre-45 and post-45 period of the Bauhaus legacy. The semester is constructed so that there is a inter-twined combination of discourses and activities dealing with the Bauhaus years in Germany and then in connection to this the consequent Bauhaus years in Chicago.
The aim is not to construct only a historical narrative of the events, but to use the legacy and the opening of Bauhaus to motivate and drive us to think with – and to think right now, right here. It is not about winning a new interpretation of Bauhaus, but to re-visit it in order to use it as a tool to articulate and address current issues in contemporary art, city planning, urban aesthetics and finally, in civil society. It is again not so much what Bauhaus was, but what we can do with it – turning the attention to what it still can become and generate.
The readings and lectures will draw a large perspective on both the early times of modernity and then the so called high modernity. In connection to these, the latter part of the semester will approach contemporary versions of modernity, linking itself to the discourse on late modernity and also post-modernity.
The course will be a combination of individual and collective artistic assignments.
General Notes:
All days and times are mandatory
All readings must be completed on your own; see dates of related lectures and written assignments
All assignments must be sent via email (Word document) on time in order to receive class credit unless an extension is approved prior to due date
Addressed to: MFA participants
Dates: to be announced
Location: MFA-rooms, Haus 4
Start: April 1, 2009
Guest Prof. Mika Hannula
Narelle Jubelin
Excursion
"Researching Bauhaus – Berlin/ Dessau“
(2 Credits)
The idea is to do a collective activity of walking in and through history. This part of the project combines visits to both Berlin and Dessau. The aim is to visit the classical sites of Bauhaus modernity and to combine these visits with the task of re-thinking and re-visiting the legacy of Bauhaus ideology.
In Berlin, the two day seminar focused on the Bauhaus archive, and used that site as a starting point for both thinking and experiencing with the historical manifestations of modernity. In Berlin, there is an implicit connection between the aesthetical and political sites – a combination of walking from the archive to the Potsdamer plats and visiting both the main Holocaust memorial by Peter Eisenman and then at the same time thinking with the newly inaugreated memorial for the prosecuted homosexuals in Third Reich, located on the other side from the main memorial. A task that makes us aware both the places where history took place and how those places are currently constructed an defined.
In Dessau, the sites are the 5 model houses of Bauhaus buildings. Again, the task is not to visit something that was, but to reclaim through these experiences the chances and challenges of the Bauhaus legacy for contemporary times and contemporary need.
All together, this part of the seminar functions as a collective act that generates collective experiences that serve as starting points and as points of re-emergency through the whole semester.
Addressed to: MFA participants
Dates: March 30 – 31, 2009 Berlin
April 4 – 5, 2009 Dessau
Narelle Jubelin
Workshop
“Almost Academic Work”
(2 Credits)
Narelle Jubelin will discuss her specific and idiosyncratic ways of threading information together than transcends yet evokes its original context. This personal recounting of her practice is one based in research, taking directed and accidental turns, including factual and fictive content, but with a clear artistic intent.
Addressed to: MFA participants
Dates: April 1 – 8, 2009
Location: MFA-rooms, Haus 4
Federica Thiene, artway of thinking
Stefania Mantovani, artway of thinking
Workshop
"Co/Operate"
(2 Credits)
The Italian collective artway of thinking will offer an intensive workshop on collaborative and cooperative methodologies
Co/Operare (to cooperate) explores collaborative strategies and group dynamics. It is a time to hone skills, learn new ones, and share experiences. With belief that collective creative processes are the strongest ones, this workshop is aimed at maximizing that potential. Additionally, over time as you return to your own work, we hope this workshop might contribute to the realization of your own visions. Developed through the methodology learning by going, the workshop explores the "C factor." This is the capacity to be together, to be part of a group (as the Chilean economist Luis Razeto said) especially in regard to creativity. This is the capacity to Create together, to Cooperate. The workshop takes as its premise that creativity is an "energy that we all have." It is directed towards the conscious and responsible application of energy, while at the same time maintaining harmony among personalities, the group, and the physical and social context. In giving value to creativity, Co/Operare intends to transform actions into a collective creation in which it is "useless to distinguish contributions because the masterpiece consist just in the whole." In the workshop personal resources, talents, and competences will be identified, while acquiring strategies to define roles and identify shared goals.
Addressed to: MFA participants
Dates: May 4 – 7, 2009
Location: Oberlichtsaal, main building
Nina Lundström
Workshop (for MFA)
"Funny Walks"
(2 Credits)
Kinder laufen, hüpfen, bummeln, schlendern, trotten, streunen. Wir Erwachsenen, in unserem Alltagstrott, schauen kaum nach oben, blicken meist nach unten auf unsre eigenen Füße. Links und rechts von uns können Städte zusammenfallen, Drachen vorbeifliegen, kann Geschichte geschrieben werden: wir denken daran, was wir zum Abendbrot essen wollen...
Was passiert, wenn wir etwas in der Stadt hinzufügen, auf den Kopf stellen oder wegnehmen? Was ist nötig, um die Wahrnehmung wach zu rütteln?
In diesem Fachkurs möchte ich mit euch unsere scheinbar vertraute Umgebung beobachten und spielerisch durch kleine Eingriffe verändern.
Der Fachkurs richtet sich an Studenten mit Interesse für den öffentlichen Raum, Performance und Video. Technische Vorkenntnisse sind nicht notwendig. Es wird eine Einführung für Anfänger in Final Cut Pro und Videoschnitt geben. Teilnahme nur nach Konsultation am 02.04. von 9.00-12.00 Uhr, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 15, Raum 004.
Es wird einige gemeinsame Termine geben zusammen mit dem Fachkurs von Ulrike Mohr.
Zielgruppe FK, MFA, LAK
Termin: Donnerstags, 10.00-12.00 Uhr
Ort: Projektraum Prof. Bachhuber
Erster Termin: 9.4.2009 |