The two-term course will critically examine the concept of public art in the new post-social environments focusing particularly on the transformations of public space in the context of globalization, digitalization and climate change.
The first term of the course was held in winter semester 2019/20.
The second term will scrutinize the radical dislocation of the (public) artist in relation to both the global art system and his or her local post-social environment. The goal is to discuss various political, cultural and linguistic aspects of this dislocation. The students will be motivated to articulate their own post-social experiences as social beings, citizens and art makers and, on the ground of these experience, to rethink and reconceptualize the notions that have traditionally formatted the practice of the public art: “private”, “public” and “the common/commons”. The discussion shall unfold along the topics and texts dealing with the emergence of the new digital spaces and alphabets, the “post-human visuality” (K. Crawford/T. Peglen) , the IAE (International Art English), the concept of the “undercommons” (F. Moten, S. Harney) etc.
The work in the course will be organized mostly in the form of readings, discussions and self-curated discursive events in a mixed academic/public space. Particular attention will be attached to writing exercises in the formats of academic papers, abstracts and short statements.
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