Sculptural Field and Contemporaneity

Code:

CECN1

Acronym:

CECN

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Sculpture

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Fine Arts Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Fine Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MAP	5	Plano de Estudos do MAP_Publicação em DR de 31 de agosto de 2020	1	-	6	45	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Learning outcomes and competences

Working method

Presencial

Program

This unit Sculptural field and contemporaneity promotes an organized overview on paradigmatic changes that have occurred in the artistic practice since the beginning of the last century until today. Also promotes a critical discussion on the disciplinary context of sculpture in its various thematic dimensions, processes and techniques and its dialogues with other universes, namely: architecture and its spatial experiences, the field of performance, the sound experimentation, the relationship with moving image, the experimental practices in the field of writing, the collaborative and relational approaches, the relationship with the artist books, among others.


As a final result, this unit promotes the development of research methods, organization and knowledge management. Also provide a set of tools that can contribute to improve the operation of individual artistic projects and a capacity to development of an theoretical essay with critical approach of innovative character.

Mandatory literature

Krauss Rosalind; La originalidad de la vanguardia y otros mitos modernos. ISBN: 84-206-7135-5
Crimp Douglas; On the museum.s ruins. ISBN: 0-262-03209-0
Michael Fried; Art and Objecthood
Suderburg Erika 340; Space, site, intervention. ISBN: 0-8166-3159-X
Kwon Miwon; One Place After Another. ISBN: 0-262-11265-5 38.61
Bishop Claire 340; Participation. ISBN: 978-0-85488-147-5
Rudolf Frieling; The^art of participation. ISBN: 978-0-500-23858-5
Félix Guattari; The three ecologies, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014
Suzanne Lacy; Mapping the terrain. ISBN: 0-941920-30-5
Miwon Kwon; One Place After Another. ISBN: 0-262-11265-5 38.61
Benjamin Buchloh; Thomas Hirschhorn. ISBN: 0-7148-4273-7
John Cage; Silence. ISBN: 0-8195-6028-6 36.75
Gonçalo M. Tavares; Atlas do corpo e da imaginação. ISBN: 978-972-21-2656-4

Teaching methods and learning activities

Contents will be displayed using slideshow, films and critical texts. Eventually guest authors and artists, or visits to art exhibitions with particular interest to the contents discussed on the course. 

All sessions will include moments of debate and discussion around the issues raised.

Theoretical essays or theoretical-practical will be requested from the study of the themes and / or the authors approached to be presented and discussed in class.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	40,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	2,00
Estudo autónomo	20,00
Frequência das aulas	45,00
Trabalho de campo	20,00
Trabalho de investigação	20,00
Trabalho escrito	35,00
Trabalho laboratorial	20,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Frequency is achieved through Continuous Assessment, which presupposes high attendance at classes and active participation in them, autonomy of research and knowledge of the contents and also the development of a personal and autonomous vision of the subjects taught.

To obtain frequency in conjunction with Continuous Assessment, it is mandatory to prepare an essay project that meets the following conditions:
Proposal – Theoretical or practical theoretical essay

Preparation of a short original essay written or through another support or reflective means that develops one or more contents of the sessions.

The essay must be delivered in digital format (pdf, wav/mp3, mov/mpeg4) and simultaneously presented in the classroom using the resources that are relevant.

Reference parameters:
The essay must be delivered in digital format:

theoretical: pdf;
audiovisual: mpeg 4/avi;
other formats must be discussed in advance with the teacher;


Limits:

Theoretical: 3000 minimum words

Audiovisual: up to 20 min maximum

Calculation formula of final grade

Observations

Additional bibliography will be provided according to the interests and motivations of each student.