Multimedia Seminar

Code:

SDM01

Acronym:

SDM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Fine Arts

Instance: 2022/2023 - 2S

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

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
AP	26	Plano de estudos de LAP_publicaçao em DR de 24/05/2021	4	-	6	45	162

Teaching language

Portuguese
Obs.: Suitable for english speaking students

Objectives

To explore and study the topic proposed for the seminar in each academic year, using different instruments and crossing theory and practice

To develop critical thinking, as well as research and analysis tools, individually and in group, through the shared and participatory regime expected from a seminar.

To establish a common ground between different instances of art practice.

To question the modalities and methodologies of artistic work, making a direct link with the individual project or studio practice.

 

Learning outcomes and competences

 According to the objectives and methodologies presented, it is expected that students can develop analysis and interpretation tools within the scope of the topic proposed for this seminar. The skills developed can be crossed with practical work carried out in the studio. They can also serve as a laboratory to test new possibilities for action and plastic research, crossing the different instances that practical work always calls for, extensively or intensively.

Students are expected to be able to carry out theoretical-practical work based on the proposed topic, bringing together not only what has been studied and addressed throughout the seminar, but also their own interests in visual arts research.

Working method

Presencial

Program

This seminar has a variable program to be defined each academic year.

For this year the proposed topic is:

Territory, nature and ancestry: walking, caring and creating

 

The idea of walking as an artistic practice or simply as a motor of thought and freedom has a long history. What is proposed for this seminar is the use of the walking exercise as a working method and experimental process that will guide the course of the entire seminar.

The organized moments of walking, confronted with thematic reflections that could be from geography, archeology, ethnography, botany, culinary, philosophy, curatorship, or others, will serve as a basis for the students to develop their own artistic practice.

We will have walking as a method, not as a way to get from point A to point B, but as an experience, a process, a source of local knowledge, and an experimental exercise. Looking at what surrounds us, looking at animals, crossing places, crossing time, and thinking beyond one’s own species. Issues such as the desertification of the Portuguese interior, rural life, the defense of natural and cultural heritage, climate change, and ecology will be at the core of the concerns that the seminar raises.

There is certainly a history of these practices, in the field of art or architecture, and there is also a whole philosophy of walking that we will not fail to bring to the discussion in our classes. However, it will be in the articulation between the crossing of these territories and the collective and individual discovery of what they can offer us that we will have the center of this seminar and the engine of the work to be carried out.

Mandatory literature

Francesco Careri; Walkscapes. ISBN: 84-252-1841-1
Francesco Careri; Caminhar e parar, Gustavo Gili, 2017
Frédéric Gros; A philosophy of Walking, Verso, 2015
Thierry Davila; Marcher, Créer. Déplacements, flânerires, Dérives dans l'srt de la fin du XXe siècle, Editions du Regard, 2002
Henry David Thoreau; Andar a pé: Um ritual interior de sabedoria e liberdade, Alma dos Livros, 2021
Ailton Krenak; Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo, 2015
Daniel Moreira e Rita Castro Neves; Arquivos de Bouça Fria, Museu da Paisagem, 2022
Emanuele Coccia; A Vida das Plantas. Uma Metafísica da Mistura, Documenta, 2019
Georges Bataille; O Nascimento da Arte, Documenta, 2015
John Berger; Porquê olhar os animais?, Antígona, 2020
Orlando Ribeiro; Geografia e Civilização. Temas Portugueses, Letra Livre, 2013
Tim Ingold; Being Alive: essays on movement, knowledge and description, 2011
Werner Herzog; Caverna dos Sonhos Esquecidos, 2009 (Film)
Colette Garraud; L'Idee De Nature Dans L'Art Contemporain, FLAMMARION, 1993

Complementary Bibliography

Karen O’Rourke; Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers, MIT Press, 2013
Bruce Chatwin; O canto nómada. ISBN: 972-564-233-3
Richard Long; Walking in circles. ISBN: 0-500-27650-1
Stephan Berg e Martin Engles (Eds); Die Sehnsucht des Kartografen/ The Longing of the Cartographer, Kunstverein Hannover, 2004
Miwon Kwon; One Place After Another. ISBN: 0-262-11265-5 38.61
Georges Bataille; La peinture prehistorique. ISBN: 2-6050-0044-3
Tim Ingold; The^perception of the environment. ISBN: 978-0-415-22832-9
J.David Lewis-Williams; Mind In The Cave. Consciousness And The Origins Of Art, 2004
Jean-Michel Geneste; Si Loin, Si Pres. Pour En Finir Avec La Prehistoire
Jorn De Précy; Le Jardin Perdu, Actes Sud
Guilherme Blanc (ed.); Transantiquity, Câmara Municipal do Porto/ Galeria Municipal. ISBN: ISBN: 978-989-54209-9-5
Michel de Certeau; A^invenção do cotidiano. ISBN: 85-326-1148-6
AAVV; Constant. Nueva Babiloinia, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2015
Suzanne Daveau; Atlas, Museu da Paisagem, 2021

Comments from the literature

Other references will be shared as the seminar unfolds.

Teaching methods and learning activities

This is a seminar and, therefore, a guided study group where students are expected to participate actively, sharing their interests and concerns.
After a short initial period of 2 or 3 classroom sessions, where the proposed topic for this seminar will be presented, contextualized and discussed, also based on experiences in the field of contemporary art, the bulk of the sessions will be organized around wandering and walking, and which, carried out in groups, will follow the clues that this very drift will offer. Whenever necessary, we will stop to discuss and share experiences, readings, memories or images.
The walks will start from the most familiar to the strangest and most distant: from the gardens of Porto - public and private, to the open countryside, through the northern region. Walks will be organized in rural areas, confronted with local knowledge and artistic practices other than Contemporary Art, in a reflective and contaminating perspective. The experiences of these walks will be the basis for the work.
Each session will last the whole Monday morning, but it will be possible to organize longer sessions in agreement with the students.
Anchored in partnerships, some sessions will be with guests who will bring their areas of expertise to complement and deepen the themes.
With the course of these collective walks and meetings, it is expected that individual or group focuses of interest will begin to emerge, which will then be the driving force for the final work of this seminar, where a cross between theory and practice will be stimulated. This final work may follow different modalities and formats, mixing text, images or other media.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	30,00
Trabalho de campo	20,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Trabalho laboratorial	50,00
Total:	50,00

Eligibility for exams

Participation in at least 75% of sessions; completion of a final theoretical-practical work.

Calculation formula of final grade

Participation and attendance 30%
field work 20%
Final work 50%