Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course examines sound art and sound studies issues in the diverse and multi-faceted context of gender issue problematics. The conceptual division between theory and praxis is abandoned as obsolete, and all doing at the course aims for the vital and visceral in-between-state of those two. The course aims to encourage students to strive for new territories of doing and thinking in their artistic paths through various mixes of sound and text related embodied acts. The main goal of the course is to provide mixed media tools for critical elaboration, creation and reflection of an artistic process.   

Credits: 3

Schedule: 12.01.2021 - 29.01.2021

Teacher in charge (valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022): Taina Riikonen

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Antti Ikonen, Taina Riikonen

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (applies in this implementation):

Language of instruction and studies (valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022):

Teaching language: English

Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content
  • Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:

    The course explores the intertwining activities of listening, writing, sensing and recording sounds in terms of performative writing/field recording, artistic research, and tactile listening. The activities in the course include reading/discussing, writing/touching, recording/listening/sensing, and moving/reflecting sounding frequencies and artistic work. The relevant material will include writings from the wide field of sound studies and sound philosophy, post-critical art theories; sounds from past and future, and improvisational encountering. Touch, multimedia, new networking and virtual fluidities of sonic/textual flows can be understood as potential fields of diverse feminine contribution that will be explored in the course. The course aims to encourage students to strive for new territories of doing and thinking in their artistic paths through various mixes of sound and text related embodied acts. The main goal of the course is to provide mixed media tools for critical elaboration, creation and reflection of an artistic process.

Assessment Methods and Criteria
  • Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:

    The activities in the course include reading/discussing, writing/touching, recording/listening/sensing, and moving/reflecting sounding frequencies and artistic work.   

DETAILS

Study Material
  • Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:

    The relevant material will include writings from the wide field of sound studies and sound philosophy, post-critical art theories; sounds from past and future, and improvisational encountering.