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
Students become familiar with the central theoretical concepts in and around the performing and screen arts; reflecting on how these are applied to artistic practice and visionary thinking.
Credits: 1
Schedule: 20.04.2021 - 14.05.2021
Teacher in charge (valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022): Liisa Ikonen
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Liisa Ikonen
Contact information for the course (valid 08.02.2021-21.12.2112):
liisa.ikonen@aalto.fi 050-5771042
workshop teacher: susanna.suurla@aalto.fi / 0405846197
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: Finnish, Swedish, English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
The focus is on how a range of theoretical approaches provide tools for analyzing personal thinking and design, and how they create and increase contexts with practices.
Applies in this implementation:
Workshop:
Pre-task: Select a material / working method
that you are interested to explore and observe during the workshop.The aim of the workshop is: 1. to combine one’s own artistic practice with
theoretical thinking and observational reflective practice 2. to observe and understand
how theory can be used to inspire and inform one's own creative work.Workshop content: During the workshop the students are introduced to
select set of Ingold’s writings, of which one chapter / article is chosen as
the main theoretical reflective source material for each student. The aim is to
focus on observing and exploring one’s own artistic processes through this
theoretical background. The theoretical approach used in the workshop centers
on Ingold’s views on how our material interactions with the world shape our
thoughts and actions, as our actions shape the world.In practice, each student will examine and reflect upon their own
creative processes through the provided theories and in relation to materiality
while making/creating or experimenting.The creative process can consist of drawing, different material or
immaterial experiments or creating a (minor) piece of work/design as an end
result.The emphasis within the
workshop is not on the material results created during it, but on observing how
materiality affects the different thought processes, as well as the bodily and
emotional experiences that occur during a creative process and how these in
turn influence the creative process further.At the end of the course each student
gives a short presentation introducing their own artistic explorations and
observations and discussing how these connect with the theoretical background
given.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Assessment is based on assignments and participation, activity and ability to think artistic practices and theory in dialogue with each other.
Attending the first lessons is required.
Workload
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Lectures, joint discussions and assignments. Contact teaching 43 h, independent learning and/or group work 65 h. The course is divided into two parts, the first two weeks of which consist of lectures and second part of two weeks workshop. Each part is 2 credits.
DETAILS
Study Material
Applies in this implementation:
Each student has a budget of 30€ for materials during the workshop, re-imbursement info will be given during the workshop.
Workshop reading materials will be handed during the course.
Registration for Courses
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
WebOodi registration.
The order of priority for admitting students to courses at Aalto ARTS 1.1.2018 onwards (approved by The Committee of Arts, Design and Architecture on 10.10.2017)
The order of priority is as follows:
- students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have scheduled it for the current academic year in their personal study plan (HOPS);
- exchange students for whom the course is a part of his/her officially approved learning agreement and scheduled to be taken during the current semester;
- students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have not completed it yet;
- students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and has been scheduled in the student's PSP (HOPS) for the current academic year
- students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
- students for whom the course is compulsory for their minor;
- students, for whom the course is part of his/her minor subject s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
- students who have applied for the course through a student mobility scheme (internal mobility within Aalto University, flexible study right (JOO) studies etc.);
- other students.
Courses that are intended to be multidisciplinary (e.g. UWAS courses) may apply an order of priority based on the learning outcomes of the course, while bearing in mind the university obligation of enabling students to complete their degrees within the normative duration of study set for the degree. The order of priority does not apply to courses organised by the Centre for General Studies or doctoral courses.
This decision on the order of priority does not influence the right of the teacher to define prerequisites for the course.
Applies in this implementation:
The course ELO-E5017 Performing and Screen
Arts Theories consist of two parts: weeks 16-17 ( 2 credits) and weeks
18-19 (2 credits)**
The course is compulsory (4 credits) for MA
students from Design for the Performing Arts and Costume Design majors**
Notice! Two credits requires active attendances in six
lectures in weeks 16-17.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Minimun and maximum amounts of participants: 4 / 24
Attending the first lessons is required.
Applies in this implementation:
The course ELO-E5017 Performing and Screen
Arts Theories consist of two parts: weeks 16-17 ( 2 credits) and weeks
18-19 (2 credits)**
The course is compulsory (4 credits) for MA
students from Design for the Performing Arts and Costume Design majors**
Notice! Two credits requires active attendances in six
lectures in weeks 16-17.
Details on the schedule
Applies in this implementation:
WEEK
149.4
Friday at 9-15 -11.15 via zoomHighly recommendable extra lecture about the queer theory and gender performativity arranged by
Department of Design!Attending to the lecture replaces attendance in
one lecture of the course (listed below).- Annamari Vänskä, Adjunct Professor of Fashion Research Aalto
University:
Fashion and gender performativity
**
WEEK 16, via zoom
- Outi Lahtinen, PhD Helsinki University, Theatre Science:
Transformative Power/Performativity
Join Zoom Meeting
https://aalto.zoom.us/j/64015324037
**
21.4 Wednesday at 10.30 -12.00
Metaphorical Space in Poetic Film
Join Zoom Meeting
https://aalto.zoom.us/j/65091508851
**
- Miika Luoto, PhD
Philosopher:
Maurice Merleau-Ponty and his philosophy
Join Zoom Meeting
https://aalto.zoom.us/j/62034229324
**
23.4Friday at 9.15 -12.00
- Sami-Henrik Haapala, MA Actor, Doctoral Candidate (Teak):
Norms, Values and
Politics in Participation and ImmersionJoin Zoom Meeting (updated link 23.4. morning)
https://aalto.zoom.us/j/69706035853
**
WEEK 17, via zoom
- Kaisa Illukka, MA Scenographer:
Posthumanism and performing arts - From the
critique of anthropocentrism to spaces of interconnectednessJoin
Zoom Meetinghttps://aalto.zoom.us/j/66919695553
**
- Tomi Lauri, Artist, MA Production Designer:
On Technological Mediation and Arts
Join Zoom Meeting
https://aalto.zoom.us/j/66511527390
**
- Timjami Varamäki, Artist, MA Costume Designer:
Meaning of the
body, performing arts and filmJoin Zoom Meeting
https://aalto.zoom.us/j/69047168908
**
WEEK
18, via zoom.We will be using the same zoom link throughout the opening
lecture and workshop:https://aalto.zoom.us/j/61852789310- Susanna Suurla MA Costume Designer:
Making with - a corresponsive perspective
towards material creativityThe lecture introduces anthropologist Tim Ingold’s
theories of making as a corresponsive, unfolding act between the material and
the maker.**
4.5. Tuesday at 13.15 -17. Workshop starts.
Please note that you are required to work independently in-between meetings.
Introduction to the workshop, short presentations of students chosen materials or working methods (pre - task), intro to the reading materials, discussion of aims and plans for the course for each student.**
5.5.-6.5. Wednesday and Thursday 9:15 - 17
Independent work: Reading of selected
articles/book chapters. Development of personal artistic processes and work.**
7.5. Friday at 9.15 -12.00
Workshop
meeting: joint discussion on read articles and insights gained from them, and
where each student is on their own work.**
WEEK 19, via zoom
11.5. Tuesday at 9.15 – 12.00
Workshop
meeting: Check-up - personal progress: discussions on themes discovered in own
work, possible questions emerging from the artistic practice and/or theory and
plans for presenting own work.**
12.5. Wednesday
Independent work
**
13.5. Ascension Day, Holiday
**
14.5. Friday at 9.15 -12.00
Workshop
meeting: Final presentations and feedback
discussion- Annamari Vänskä, Adjunct Professor of Fashion Research Aalto
- Teacher: Ikonen Liisa
- Teacher: Suurla Susanna