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Objectives
Students participate in four seminars, depending on the theoretical needs encountered in the course of their study and from the perspective of their own artistic practice and theoretical interests.
Seminars are incorporated into the Master’s programme as a specific form of study, in which theoretical content is transmitted in a flexible and open working structure, subject to intervention and dialogue on the part of students.
Seminars are partly supported by the artistic and theoretical investigations currently being conducted at the KASK, so that students are engaged in seminars that focus on pertinent problems and themes.
Topics
Each seminar comprises a single unit of study within this segment of the programme.
Seminars focus on specific problems and investigations.
The seminars are thematic in nature and are not intended as overviews.
In terms of content, seminars in the Master’s programme may be on any subject or theme linked to the study areas of the visual and audiovisual arts.
The specific focus of a seminar evolves from investigation by an instructor/lecturer.
The seminars may reach beyond the standard limits of specific artistic disciplines.
Do you know Margareta Sbrunen?
You certainly heard of Jacob van Artevelde who provided the city of Ghent with a nickname.
What's your opinion on Charles the fifth who put the Ghent citizens a rope around their neck?
Cloisters and abbeys are obviously known to you, but was the typical Flemish beguinage rather a religious enclave than a community of strong women, some kind of premature feminists?
Ghent has a long history of social services, from hospitals over orphanages to mental homes.
But even this resulted in beautiful and impressive architecture.
Its cemeteries such as Campo Santo hold monuments for celebrities and for ordinary people carrying wonderful and unique sculptures.
Arnold Vander Haeghen used to photograph daily middle-class life around 1900.
1866 Frans De Potter started writing his history of Ghent in 8 volumes, very well documented indeed but hardly used today.
Besides the many museums in town have rich and various collections… but how were they established at all?
This seminar explores the art and the history of the city of Ghent from its origin in the early Middle Ages, then called "Ganda", to the present day.
You will able to understand the socio-economic and political actors who participated in the rise, the fall and the revival of a medium-sized Flemish town.
The cultural phenomena and varied art production connected with them. Important and remarkable personalities and institutions that made Ghent renowned, famous and less famous artists, art popes, popular figures, heroes and anti-heroes of all time.
We will investigate their environment and residences, their work and workshops, buildings, public and private spaces on the spot.
It may be clear this will be anything but a touristic seminar. Active cooperation is required of each participant interested in and wanting to discover in a different way the city of his/her master studies.
Prerequisites
It is strongly advised that students have the required competencies of the Bachelor’s programme in visual or audiovisual art.
Final Objectives
- In a well-grounded manner, students can share thoughts and reflections concerning a scientific or artistic investigation.
- Students demonstrate their capacity for originality and creativity in expanding knowledge and acquiring insight.
- Students demonstrate the potential added value of collaboration that goes beyond specific artistic disciplines and can moreover achieve that added value in a multidisciplinary environment.
- Students have advanced understanding of and insight into scientific and/or artistic knowledge inherent to their specific domain in the visual or audiovisual arts.
- Students have insight into the most recent contemporary knowledge in a specific area and can follow current research and interpretation.
Materials used
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Teaching materials vary according to the seminars selected.
Readers with useful information will be available on Dokeos.
Study costs
Syllabuses are provided through studio funding.
Students purchase any handbooks that may be required.
Study guidance
Instructors/lecturers are always available for consultation by appointment.
Teaching Methods
Theoretical discourse and group discussions.
When appropriate, visiting lecturers may hold seminars in languages other than Dutch.
Six sessions of four hours.
The first session will be a general introduction and the presentation of the visit schedule.
The five following sessions will be visits to different locations.
The use of public transport and museum entrances might bring on some, but limited expenses
Assessment
Each seminar requires a verbal examination, possibly prepared by means of a written paper.
Students must pass each unit in order to receive full credits for this programme segment.
Each unit is 25% of the total credits.
Second settings are possible.
Attendance is obligatory.
Paper and presentation on a subject related to the visited locations.
Lecturer(s)
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