Fields and Specificities of Art Practise

Code:

CEPAN1

Acronym:

CEPAN

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Multimedia

Instance: 2021/2022 - 2S

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	19	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

The global objective of this unit is to contribute to broader discussions on contemporary artistic practices and their crossings with other areas. These discussions will take place with the work oh artits into the class room.

• To value the experimental methodologies and group discussions.
• To encourage the intersection with the work developed in other curricular areas or even in other contexts.
• To develop analytical tools, individually and in group.

Learning outcomes and competences

Discussions in these classes are like plastic matter. The artists will bring their work processes, exposing all its faults. Every chance of developing this starting point will be welcome and methods are aware of the lack of coherence of its objectives. In art coherence is relative or relates to everything that we want to avoid. Our world suffers from certitude. This unit attempts an adventure beyond the school limits and the artists come from the outside.

Working method

Presencial

Program

The program of this unit builds up himself. The work of the artists will bring different topics of discussion and pictures to see. An infinite field of possibilities is opened here. Processes, attempts, mistakes. Exhibitions, presentations. How to bring the work to be seen? How to speak about the job done? How to translate what is in the work of artists, filmmakers?

Art and the difficulty of talking about it. Art and events therein. Art when you exit to the outside. Art and the lack of it.

Art and boredom.

Art is calculating? — Art and the impossibility of a program.

The artistic practice — a place of the unknown.

The artistic practice — a character arriving from a foreign country.

Artistic practice or artistic practices?

The art and the temperature of things — is it cold or is it hot?

Where are we when we talk about art?

Mandatory literature

Cesariny Mário; As^mãos na água a cabeça no mar

Teaching methods and learning activities

The analysis of the specific methodologies of artistic practice will not obey any previous program, having as only condition the direct speech of artists and the students. There will be no limitation on the types or formats of work to be done;

An important part of the work will be done in groups, monitoring the classes (documenting classes); individual work will have the conditions established by each student, with variable typologies.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	50,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	45,00
Trabalho escrito	12,00
Total:	57,00

Eligibility for exams

Apart from the quality of the work of each student throughout the semester, in its various stages, will be valued the following factors, without prejudice to other aspects included in the program: a) Attendance. b) Participation in class discussions and other school activities. c) compliance with the deadlines established in the schedule of the classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Apart from the quality of the work of each student throughout the semester, in its various stages, will be valued the following factors, without prejudice to other aspects included in the program: a) Attendance. b) Participation in class discussions and other school activities. c) compliance with the deadlines established in the schedule of the classes.