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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.
6 sessions of 4 hours
Ulises Carrión (1940–1989) was a writer, book & video maker as well as the founder of
the bookshop / gallery 'Other books and so' in Amsterdam.
This bookshop was later
transformed into a public archive.
Ulises Carrión explains his motivation and ideas on
artists' books and his archive in the following manner. '[…]
A traditional book is made by
different people.
One man is responsible for the entire production of an artist's book: for
the content, for the form, for everything.
You can also compare that with art.
In traditional
art you have a great number of specialized people: the artist, the gallery owner, the art
critic and so forth, while here the artist is responsible for all of these elements.
For me an
archive is an attempt to realize that in reality, for I consider an archive to be artwork that
implies a space, a public institution.
It implies the work of other people, my social
function, it has no limit in time, for an archive can survive indefinitely.
It also has no limits,
it grows steadily, it is still alive…" (From Book to Artists' Books, 1981)
The seminar is aimed at searching for and categorizing a collection of texts which center
around the notions of an artist's book – it's form and content, as well as its literary and
academic relations.
In one of Ulises Carrión influential texts 'The New Art of Making
Books' he compares function of the traditional book with the artist's book and
systematically proposes the intentional move away from the literary to the artist's book.
Carrión was interested in the space that defined a book beyond the traditional
conceptions.
He wrote: 'In order to read the old art (traditional books), knowing the
alphabet is enough.
In order to read the new art (artist's books) one must apprehend the
book as a structure, identifying its elements and understanding their function.'
During the course of the seminar, it is thought to investigate the texts surrounding the use
and making of books.
The 6 sessions will look at the ideas and methodologies about
book making and their archetypical categories.
By the end of the seminar, we will
produce a categorical collection of texts, images, and reviews centered round the artist's
book.
As a participant, you will be asked to write a review about a specific construction of
an artist's book.
Guiding questions are: How has the knowledge of literature developed a
new scope for looking at the book? How can one read a book? In which way can the
author influence the form? What is the difference between a 'mineral' book or 'vegetal'
book?
It is asked that the participant is able to reflect on the medium of the artist's books
and show his or her understanding of the relationship between form and content; their
construction and transformation.
The evaluation of each project will be based on a written
review.
The specifics with regard to the seminar’s assignment, reading material, lectures
etc. will provided at a later stage.
Prerequisites
t 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.
Study costs
Syllabuses are provided through studio funding.
Students purchase any handbooks that may be required.
Study guidance
Teaching Methods
Theoretical discourse and group discussions.
When appropriate, visiting lecturers may hold seminars in languages other than Dutch.
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.
Lecturer(s)
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