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
Student will learn to work experimentally in collaboration. To see the strength of her/ his skills and knowledge and to respect and relay on others.
Credits: 5
Schedule: 19.04.2021 - 25.05.2021
Teacher in charge (valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022): Pia Euro
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Pia Euro
Contact information for the course (valid 08.04.2021-21.12.2112):
laura.beloff@aalto.fi
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:
Course is collaborative course on varying topics with other study programme, department or school in Aalto, or other Universities in Finland or intenationally. Of this course more information will be published latest by the end of previous semester.
Applies in this implementation:
This course has changed to be: 12.4.-16.4.
Intense week!!Monday-friday
10-17 (FI-time) 9-16 (DK-time)(In the ViCCA/Aalto curriculum, the generic
course title is Trans-Institutional Experiments and Collaborations code: TAI-E3149 )Introduction:
The first decades
of the 21st century have seen the emergence of new movements of resistance to
power, state and capitalism, such as the #metoo, Black Lives Matter, Occupy,
the Arab Spring and Global Justice Movement. The emergence of these movements,
as well as the rise of political populism, neoliberal values and environmental
crisis on a planetary scale, shift our understanding of the world and our
future. We need to rethink our systems, values, lifestyles and future aims. All
this demands a renewed focus on anarchism; its potentiality, traditions, role
in society - what is anarchism today?In this course,
parallel to anarchism we lay the word ‘anachrony’/‘anachronism’, which is by
its definition: a person or thing that is chronologically out of place;
misplacing of persons, events, objects or customs in regard to each other. The
word derives from chronos, the Greek word for "time," and ana-, a
Greek prefix meaning "up," "back," or "again."
(Merriam-Webster Dictionary).And then - what
about ART?Is there a
relation between anarchism and art?One could say
that there has always been discrepancy between the art/artists and the state.
What is politically correct art of today? Is there politically incorrect art?
What is the status of art in a posthuman world? How are the climate
transformations and geopolitical ‘turn’ mediating ideas of art - or vice versa?
What are the cultural responses to an open, random and unintended nonhuman
temporality?This course
starts with questions --
together we will
investigate (and potentially begin understanding) these terms (anarchy, anachrony)
and questions.-
together we will
inquire into the relationship between anarchy and anachrony in what might
appear to be a posthuman historicity (or art?).Facts:
The course is a
collaboration between:Aalborg University / Media Arts Cultures program (Erasmus+ funded) and
Aalto University / Visual Cultures, Curating and
Contemporary Art program.The course will
include visiting lectures, group work and online presentation by groups at the
end of the course.The course will be
fully organised online; in Zoom.The course accepts
a maximum of 24 students all together.Teachers in
charge: Laura Beloff (Aalto), Morten Søndergaard (AAU)
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Workshop, discussions, lectures, independent-/groupwork
Applies in this implementation:
-80% presence in attending the course.
-Active group work.
-Presentation of the results with the group.
(((-Aalborg University / Erasmus MediaAC students should actively revisit their central (hypo)thesis, supporting examples and theory in the group work during the course.))))
Workload
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Contact teaching 68h and independent 67h.
DETAILS
Study Material
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Will be provided in syllabus
Applies in this implementation:
Readings will be provided.
Prerequisites
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
x
Registration for Courses
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
x
Applies in this implementation:
Learning goals:
- Knowledge about the concepts of anarchy
and anachrony (the dialectical contemporary) and how they have been used (by
artists, curators, cultural producers, etc).-Conceptualizing anarchism in art and/or
post humanistic research.-Reflection on contemporary theoretical and
artistic aspects that can be considered in the light of anarchy/anarchism and
anachrony / anachronism.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Teaching period changed by decision of Academic Committee for Arts, Design and Architecture on 18 May, 2021.
Applies in this implementation:
Learning goals:
- Knowledge about the concepts of anarchy
and anachrony (the dialectical contemporary) and how they have been used (by
artists, curators, cultural producers, etc).-Conceptualizing anarchism in art and/or
post humanistic research.-Reflection on contemporary theoretical and
artistic aspects that can be considered in the light of anarchy/anarchism and
anachrony / anachronism.
Details on the schedule
Applies in this implementation:
Monday - Friday 10-17
12.4.-16.4.
- Teacher: Beloff Laura
- Teacher: Euro Pia