Bohemian (Contemporary) Art in Global Philosophical Context - YBLO009

• Title: Bohemian (Contemporary) Art in Global Philosophical Context
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unlimited (30)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Old code: YBAJ165
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Ondřej Váša, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Ondřej Váša, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students
• Incompatibility : YBAJ165

Annotation

English

This course will take place in galleries in direct contact with the artworks or the artists themselves, if possible. We will visit large permanent exhibitions (National Gallery, DOX) as well as a number of temporary exhibitions in independent Prague galleries. This semester we will ask ourselves one question: how has the key concept of the sublime changed in contemporary art? What does it refer to today, what role does it play, and what are its pitfalls and weaknesses? What price does art pay for being critical, ironic and cynical? Thus, depending on the specific exhibitions, we will revisit texts devoted to this very topic, from Immanuel Kant to Adorno, Lyotard and Nancy to a plethora of contemporary theorists, critics and artists.

Last update: Váša Ondřej, Mgr., Ph.D. (31.01.2025)

Czech

Tento kurz bude probíhat v galeriích v přímém kontaktu s uměleckými díly či samotnými umělci, bude-li to možné. Navštívíme velké stále expozice (Národní galerie, DOX) stejně jako řadu dočasných výstav v nezávislých pražských galeriích. Tento semestr si položíme jedinou otázku: jak se v současné umění proměnila klíčová koncepce vznešena? Čeho se dnes týká, jakou hraje roli a jaké má úskalí a slabiny? Jakou cenu umění platí za to, že je kritické, ironické a cynické? Budeme se tak v závislosti na konkrétních výstavách znovu zabývat texty, věnovaných právě tomuto tématu, od Immanuela Kanta přes Adorna, Lyotarda či nancyho až po plejádu současných teoretiků, kritiků a umělců. DŮLEŽITÁ INFORMACE: Výuka proběhne v angličtině.

Last update: Váša Ondřej, Mgr., Ph.D. (31.01.2025)

Teaching methods

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Students will pay their own admission to the galleries; the independent galleries are usually free of charge, however, DOX or the National Gallery (and other big institutions) will charge a fee (50 - 200 CZK). 

Last update: Váša Ondřej, Mgr., Ph.D. (31.01.2025)

Requirements to the exam

75% attendance, participation in discussions, essay.

Last update: Váša Ondřej, Mgr., Ph.D. (24.01.2025)

Syllabus

• 28.2.2025:
• FHS UK: "Hellscapes: On Art, Technology and Loneliness", Guided Tour, Václav Janoščík Janoščík (February 28th, 14:30 in English or 16:00 in Czech)
• 5.3.2025: Libuše Jarcovjáková | National Gallery Prague
• Veletržní palác, Dukelských Hrdinů 47, 170 00 Praha 7-Holešovice
• 60 CZK
• Text to discuss: Jacques Ranciére: The Pensive Image + Notes on the photographic image
• 12.3.2025: Cancelled (GACR meeting)
• 19.3.2025: Trafo Gallery: Group exhibition – 0 m2
• Trafo Gallery, (Hall 14) Holešovická tržnice, Bubenské nábřeží 306/13, 170 00 Prague 7
• https://trafogallery.cz/en/exhibitions/0-m2-vystava-pro-nadeji;
• Free of Charge
• Text to Discuss: Albert Camus, An Essay on Man in Revolt (CHAPTER 4: Rebellion and Art)
• 26.3.2025: Center for Contemporary Arts Prague - The Forest Passage
• Free of Charge
• Text to discuss: Ernst Jünger, War as an Inner Experience, chapter "The Gray" + Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement (excerpts)
• 2.4.2025: Kunsthalle: The Unsettled Soul
• https://www.kunsthallepraha.org/en/events/chiharu-shiota-the-unsettled-soul
• Free of Charge
• Guided tour
• 9.4.2025: DOX: Prometheus
• https://www.dox.cz/en/whats-on/prometheus
• 120 CZK
• Text do discuss: Fredric Jameson: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of LAte Capitalism
• 16.4.2025: David Levente Palatinus: Urban Decay and Heterotopia in Central Europe (17:30)
• 23.4.2025: National Gallery: Exposition of Contemporary Art
• 60 CZK
• Veletržní palác, Dukelských Hrdinů 47, 170 00 Praha 7-Holešovice
• Text to discuss: Julia Kristeva: Approaching Abjection (1980)
• 30.4.2025: DOX: Up in Flames
• https://www.dox.cz/en/whats-on/david-lynch-up-in-flames
• 120 CZK
• Text to Discuss: J.-L. Nancy: The Sublime Offering
• 7.5.2025: Field trip / Reading of J.-F. Lyotard and his texts on the sublime I. (will depend on the programme of the galleries)
• 14.5.2025: Field trip / Reading of J.-F. Lyotard and his texts on the sublime II. (will depend on the programme of the galleries)
• 21.5.2025: Final discussion

Last update: Váša Ondřej, Mgr., Ph.D. (28.02.2025)

Learning resources

LITERATURE WE WILL BE WORKING WITH (SELECTION):

Albert Camus, An Essay on Man in Revolt (CHAPTER 4: Rebellion and Art)
Jacques Ranciére: The Pensive Image + Notes on the photographic image
Ernst Jünger, War as an Inner Experience, chapter "The Gray"
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement (excerpts)
Fredric Jameson: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of LAte Capitalism
Julia Kristeva: Approaching Abjection
J.-L. Nancy: The Sublime Offering

Last update: Váša Ondřej, Mgr., Ph.D. (18.02.2025)