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Intermedia Art I

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 340-0415/01
Abbreviation IT1
Course title Intermedia Art I
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Machine and Industrial Design
Course coordinator prof. Mgr. Vladimír Havlík

Subject syllabus

1. The concept of action art and the roots of action art (rituals, festivities, folk traditions).
2. Practical exploration of recording movement and transferring energy through drawing.
3. Elements of action art in Futurism.
4. Drawing and painting dialogue.
5. Elements of action art in Dadaism.
6. Exploration of spatiotemporal constellations through movement structures.
7. Elements of action art in Surrealism. Exploration of spatiotemporal constellations – multimedia performance project.
8. History of Land Art and major international representatives. Realization of a multimedia performance.
9. History of Land Art and major Czech representatives. Project involving a Land Art intervention in the landscape.
10. History of the FLUXUS movement. Visual art and music, experimental scores.
11. The concept of happening, its history, representatives, and examples. Creation of experimental musical instruments.
12. The concept of performance art and its international representatives. Realization of an experimental concert. Critical analysis of the outcomes.
13. Czech representatives of performance art. Project involving an original performative action.

Literature

FISCHER, Zdeněk – HAVLÍK, Vladimír – HORÁČEK, Radek. Slovem, akcí, obrazem – příspěvek k interdisciplinaritě tvůrčího projevu. 1 vyd.
Brno: Vydavatelsví Masarykovy university, 2010. 208 str. ISBN 978-80-210-5389-2 
ZHOŘ, Igor., HORÁČEK, Radek., HAVLÍK, Vladimír. Akční tvorba. Olomouc, 1990. ISBN 80-7067-0746 .
MORGANOVÁ, Pavlína. Akční umění. Olomouc, 1999. ISBN 80-7198-351-9 .
GOLDBERG, RoseLee. Performance: Live Art since 1960. London: Thames and Hudson, 1998. 240 s. ISBN 0-8109-4360-3 
KASTNER, Jeffrey - WALES, Brian. Land and Environmental Art. London: Phaidon Press Inc., 2005 (reprint). 304 s. ISBN 0-7148-4519-1 

Advised literature

KAYE, Nick. Site-Specific Art. London, New York, 2000. ISBN 0-415-18558-0 
ZHOŘ, Igor. Výtvarná výchova v projektech I. Pracovní sešit pro 6. a 7. ročník. Havlíčkův Brod: Tobiáš, 1995. 87 s. ISBN 80-85808-30-7 .
VÁCLAVOVÁ, Denisa – ŽIŽKA, Tomáš a kol. Site Specific. 1. vyd. Praha: Pražská scéna, 2008. 324 s. ISBN 970-80-86102-44-3