VALAND ACADEMY
Kursguide – Foto yr2 Masteruppsats 1
FOA136 Masterexamenskurs i fotografi I
(Introducing contemporary foto research and cultural debates)
Kurskod
Kursnamn
FOA136 – Del Kurs 2
Masteruppsats I (Master Essay Course I), 7,5 hp
(contemporary foto research and cultural debates)
Kursansvarig
Telefon
Niclas Östlind
073-507 50 71
E-mail
Termin
[email protected]
Fall 2015 / Höst 2015
Content
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Course description and course content
Course objectives
Course’s educational bases and learning activities
Examination
Assessment criteria (if any)
Course literature
Course development survey
Student Handbook
Equal opportunity, equal treatment
Contact information and participating instructors
Course Description and Course Content
Kursen syftar till att utveckla kommande masteruppsats; förbereda ämne, söka relevanta källor,
utveckla metod samt planera uppsatsens disposition. Kursen syftar till att ämnesspecifik
fördjupning samt att utveckla och pröva relevanta perspektiv och metoder för analys samt
kontextualisering av skilda källmaterial. Kursen innefattar även opponering på ett annat
uppsatsarbete. Syftet med oppositionen är att utveckla den kritiska förmågan genom att på ett
konstruktivt sätt granska ett annat upppsatsarbete samt att ge förslag och synpunkter till
förbättringar
The basic content of the course comprises three parrallel series of lectures & seminars
(1) Alternate Mondays (even weeks) – workshop meetings with Mick Wilson on the basic
tasks in developing an important essay (shared with MFA 2 Fine Art).
(2) Thursday mornings – with Niclas Östlind – a survey of contemporary photography
Valand Academy
(3) Friday afternoons – with Mick Wilson and Kerstin Bergendal – a survey of contemporary
themes and debates in art and cultural practice.
In addition to this students will have one-to-one meetings with Niclas Östlind to support the
initial development of the essay.
Later in the semester after you have developed a full Masters Essay proposal you will be
allocated an individual essay supervisor based on the content of the proposal.
Week 36
Monday 31st August 13:00-14:00 Introduction to the essay writing task. (MW)
Friday 4.September 14:30-16:30 ”The contemporary critical context for cultural practice
and what might we understand by research? (MW & KB)
Week 37
Thursday 10 September 13:00–16:00 Regarding Reading & Writing. Introduction (with MA1)
Niclas Östlind
Friday 11 September 14:30-16:30 ”What is modernism?” (KB)
Week 38
Monday 14th September 13:00-15:00 Reading as a way of writing: Strategies for difficult texts
Thursday 17 September 10:00-11:30 John Szarkowsky and the Essence of Photography I
With Niclas Östlind Reading: John Szarkowsky, The Photographer’s Eye, MoMA New York
1966.
Thursday 17 September one-to-one meetings with Niclas Östlind
13:00–13.45 Ylva Bengtsson
14:00–14.45 Maria Buyondo
15:00–15:45 Hannah Giles
16:00–16:45 Malin Griffiths
Friday 18 September 14:30-16:30 ”What is the modern system of the arts?” (MW)
Week 39
Thursday 24/9, 10:00–11:30 Photography and Surveillance I Teacher: Niclas Östlind Guest:
Louise Wolthers, Hasselblad Center . Reading: Selected essays. List will be announced not
later than 3/9.
Friday 25.Sep. 14:30-16:30 ”What is feminism?” (KB)
Week 40
Monday 28th September 10:00-15:00 Presenting the proposal. Bring to the class your first text
describing your writing project.
Thursday 1/10, 10:00–11:30 Photography and Surveillance II with Niclas Östlind
Reading: Allan Sekula, “The Body and the Archive”, Richard Bolton (ed), The Contest of
Meaning. Critical Histories of Photography, MIT Press, 1992 (1989)
Thursday 1 October one-to-one meetings with Niclas Östlind
13:00–13.45 Anja Hellström
14:00–14.45 Klara Källström
15:00–15:45 David Arnar Runólofsson
Friday 2 October 10:00-19:00 (All staff and students invited- must book a place though!)
Jubileum Conference on Critical Art Education
Saturday 3 October 10:00-14:00
Jubileum Conference on Critical Art Education. This is an international conference on
the education of artists with special guests frpm London, New York, Berlin etc. Also, a chance
to meet the Jubileum Special Guest Artist in Residence Pepon Osorio.
You must book a place through the website: Participation is free but places are limited:
Advance booking recommended. To reserve your place at the conference please sign-up on
our website (http://akademinvaland.gu.se/aktuellt/e/?eventId=1907835848 ) The booking option
is at the bottom of this webpage.
Week 41
Wednesday 7 October Symposium: Watched! – all day
Thursday 8 October
Symposium: Watched! – all day
Friday 9 October 14:30-16:30 What is an exhibition for? (MW)
Week 42
Monday 12th October 10:00-12:00 MFA 2 Presenting bibliography - literature review
Monday 12th October 13:00-15:00 MFA 2 How to work with references / footnotes etc.
Thursday 15 October
13:00–13.45 Ylva Bengtsson
14:00–14.45 Maria Buyondo
15:00–15:45 Hannah Giles
16:00–16:45 Malin Griffiths
Friday 16 October 14:30-16:30 What was / is postmodernism? Guest: Dr. Michael Baers
Week 43
Thursday 22/10 10:00-11:30 Burning with Desire: Early Photography I
Guest teacher: Martin McCabe, Lecturer in Photography, Dublin Institute of Technology.
Reading: Geoffrey Batchen, Burning with Desire, The Conception of Photography, MIT Press,
1999 (1997)
Friday 23 October 14:30-16:30 What is aesthetics? Guest Presentation
Week 44
Monday 26th October 10:00-12:00 What should I read? Principles of selection / How to read?
Thursday 29 October 10:00-11:30 Burning with Desire: Early Photography II
Guest teacher: Magnus Bremmer, PhD in Comparative Literature, Stockholm University
Thursday 29 October – one-to-one meetings with Tyrone Martinsson
13:00–13.45 Anja Hellström
14:00–14.45 Klara Källström
15:00–15:45 David Arnar Runólofsson
Friday 30 October 14:30-16:30 What is the contemporary? Why this fuss about ”time”? (MW)
Week 45 PAUSE WEEK
Thursday 5.November and Friday 6.November all day PARSE Conference. Keynote
presentations are public events. Bruno Latour. Simon Critchley. Coco Fusco. Jalal Toufic.
Week 46
Tuesday 10 November 12:00 noon Deadline for the first draft of the text.
Thursday 12 November 10:00-11:30 John Szarkowsky and the Essence of Photography II.
The Critique. Teacher: Niclas Östlind. Reading: Christopher Phillips, “The
Judgment Seat of Photography” & Abigail Solomon-Godeau, “The Armed Vision Disarmed:
Radical Formalism from Weapon to Style.”, Richard Bolton (ed), The Contest of Meaning.
Critical Histories of Photography, MIT Press, 1992 (1989)
Thursday 12 November one-to-one meetings with Niclas Östlind
13:00–13.45 Ylva Bengtsson
14:00–14.45 Maria Buyondo
15:00–15:45 Hannah Giles
16:00–16:45 Malin Griffiths
Friday 13 November 14:30-16:30 What is Capital? Guest: Dr. Michael Baers
Week 47
Thursday 19 November 10:00–11:30 Regarding the Pain of Others I Teacher: Niclas Östlind /
Guest: Cecilia Parsberg Reading: Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, Picador 2003
Friday 20 November 14:00-onward ( afternoon and early evening) ”Performing Resistance”
Research Seminar organised by Prof. Annika Lundgren.
Week 48
Monday 23rd November 10:00-12:00 Reading & writing for argument:
What makes a good text?
Thursday 26 November 10:00–11:30 Theory & Practice: The Works by and Working with
Wolfgang Tillmans. Teacher: Niclas Östlind. Guest: Jo Widoff, Curator, Moderna Museet. (to
be confirmed)
Thursday 26 November one-to-one meetings with Niclas Östlind
13:00–13.45 Anja Hellström
14:00–14.45 Klara Källström
15:00–15:45 David Arnar Runólofsson
Friday 27 November 10:00-16:00 Open House. All academy participates in various events.
Week 49
Wednesday 2 December – 12:00 noon - Deadline to send the text to the reader:
Ylva Bengtsson send to Maria Buyondo
Maria Buyondo send to Hannah Giles
Hannah Giles send to Malin Griffiths
Malin Griffiths send to Anja Hellström send to Klara Källström
Anja Hellström send to Klara Källström
Klara Källström send to David Arnar Runólofsson
David Arnar Runólofsson send to Ylva Bengtsson
Thursday 3 December 10:00-11:30 Regarding the Pain of Others 2. Focus on Martha Rosler
Teacher: Niclas Östlind - Reading: Steve Edwards, Martha Rosler: The Bowery in Two
Inadequate Descriptive Systems, MIT Press 2012
Friday 4 December
14:30-16:30 What is postcolonialism? Guest: Dr. Michael Baers
Week 50
Monday 7 December - All Academy Research Day – a chance to see what work your teachers
are doing and what work the doctorands and other researchers in Valand are working on.
Thursday 10 December 10:00-11:30 Regarding the Pain of Others III: Focus: Conflict, Time
and Photography, Niclas Östlind Guest: Kent Klich, photographer.
Thursday 10 December 13:00–16:45 Group supervision with Niclas Östlind
Friday 11 December
14:30-16:30 What is critique? What does it feel like? (MW)
Week 51
Thursday 17 December 9.00–16.00 MFA (1 and 2) presentations of written work
Course Objectives
The Course’s Educational Bases and Learning Activities
The course is based on:
Reading widely
Written work produced on a regular basis by the student
Group meetings on some Mondays (workshops), every Thursday morning (foto theory) and
every Friday afternoon (comtemporary cultural debates).
Tutorials on some Thursday afternoons with Niclas / Tyrone.
Examination
The basis of the examination is the production of written work and the critical response to the
written work of peers.
SUBMISSION OF WORK: Wednesday 2 December – 12:00 noon - Deadline to send the text
to the reader:
Ylva Bengtsson send to Maria Buyondo
Maria Buyondo send to Hannah Giles
Hannah Giles send to Malin Griffiths
Malin Griffiths send to Anja Hellström send to Klara Källström
Anja Hellström send to Klara Källström
Klara Källström send to David Arnar Runólofsson
David Arnar Runólofsson send to Ylva Bengtsson
Copy to the course teaching team via-GUL page
EXAM: Thursday 17 December 9.00–16.00
Students will be informed of examination results within 15 days of the examination. Students
will be informed of their course grade within 15 days of the end of the course.
Students who did not sit the examination or who fail will be offered the following opportunities
for re-examination:
•
•
•
Third Friday in March
Third Friday in August
Second Friday in December
In addition to the above dates, the course director may offer more opportunities for reexamination.
Assessment Criteria (if any)
Degree of demonstrated active participation in seminar dialogue
Demonstrated the ability to develop an idea from initial outline to a well-developed written text
using images in a coherent way to elaborate the discussions developed in the text.
Using a reference system with consistency.
Course Literature
Zoya Kocur and Simon Leung. (Eds.) Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985. 2nd Edition.
Wiley-Blackwell. 2012.
Artspace Editors. ”Book Report: Chris Kraus on the Ambiguous Virtues of Art School”. March 2.
2015. http://www.artspace.com/magazine/news_events/chris-kraus-akademie-x
General resources on contemporary art (links will be provided to you through the GUL page)
Journals of interest
FRIEZE Magazine
ARTFORUM
AFTERALL
VARIANT
e-flux Journal
CABINET
GREY ROOM
OPEN
Inaesthetics
Radical Philosophy
FLASH ART
A Prior Magazine
Art Monthly
Art Newspaper
Contemporary
Manifesta Journal
Journal of Curatorial Studies
The Exhibitionist
art and curatorial projects of interest (links will be provided to you through the GUL page)
GIBCA
Roda Sten
Göteborgs Konsthall
Former West
If I Can’t Dance
unitednationsplaza
Be[com]ing Dutch
Cork Caucus
Headless
dOCUMENTA(13)
documenta 12
Documenta 11
Documenta X
other sites interest
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/art-definition/
http://www.biennialfoundation.org
http://saltonline.org/en/home
http://www.palaisdetokyo.com
http://www.macba.cat/en/index
http://www.deappel.nl
http://www.bak-utrecht.nl/?click[lang]=en
http://www.portikus.de
http://hu.tranzit.org
http://www.ica.org.uk
http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern
http://www.tenstakonsthall.se/swedish/
http://www.aaa.org.hk
http://www.iterationagain.com
http://www.onedaysculpture.org.nz
http://eipcp.net
http://on-curating.org
Course Development Survey
The course will be evaluated orally at its conclusion and also in writing and anonymously via a
course development survey where you will have the opportunity to provide your views on the
course. After this, the instructor will write a course report containing a summary of the various
evaluations, including the key observations made by the students and the instructor’s
summary, analysis and action plan for the course. The compiled course development survey
and course report will be published in GUL no later than eight weeks after the course ends.
Student Handbook
We have collected all the information needed by students studying at Valand Academy in the
Student Handbook.
http://akademinvaland.gu.se/english/education/student-handbook/
Equal Opportunity, Equal Treatment
Equal treatment means that harassment and discrimination against students or employees on
the basis of gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability,
sexual orientation, or age may not occur at the university. It is also forbidden to commit
reprisals against someone who has lodged a complaint, i.e. to get revenge on someone who
files a report.
Students and staff may contact the head of department as their first recourse. As a student,
you may also contact any other representative of the university, such as your instructor,
programme director, study counsellor, the student union, or the equality representative.
Read more about GU’s equal opportunity/equal treatment work at:
http://akademinvaland.gu.se/english/education/student-handbook/plan-your-studies/equal
Contact Information and Participating Instructors
Niclas Östliund [email protected]
Mick Wilson [email protected]
Guest Lecturers include Dr. Tyrone Martinsson
Other
This course is a survey course – the group sessions on Friday will be shared by MFA 1 and
MFA 2 Fine Art, as well as with MFA 1 Photography. The group sessions on Thursday morning
will be shared with the MFA1 Photography. The group sessions on Mondays will be shared with
the MFA 2 Fine Art.
We also to hope to create a small social event after each session on Friday whenever possible.
(More information when we meet in start-up week.)