STUDY PROGRAMME
Visual arts and Curatorial studies

AFAM CODE
ABST51

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Phenomenology of contemporary arts

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Phenomenology of contemporary arts

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical

This course’s purpose is to analyze, through keywords referred to the authors defined within the project, the “creative act” and the correlated processes of singularization, in a scope of environmental attention, that is ecosophy. The environment is the place where singularities find their variations, thus promoting intersections and flows that prepare the act of creation as defined by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

The programme consists of one single module, which grants 6 CFA credits.

By the end of the programme, successful students will be able to:

• Highlight the specificity of the act of creation in the scope of expressive practices, in relation to the most recent processes of transformation in the use of knowledge

• Identify the relational/environmental dimension of the works within the common communication systems and organizational

• strategies

• Create attention around free creative acts (see the idea of dépense) and creative acts that are beset by the dominant aesthetics

• Analysis and comparison among the main currents of contemporary ecology

• Presentation of practices and artists who have an ecologic approach to their work

• Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: introduction to design workshops

• Politics of vegetation

• Critical theory of ecology: post-human and anthropocene

• The aesthetics of disappearance: Paul Virilio

• Mutant bodies, technologies, cyborgs and xenofemminism

• Donna Haraway, technologies and species alliances

• This is a theoretical course. Didactic activities may include:

• Classroom lectures

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools for detailed study

• Debates and presentations during classes

• Individual study and research

• Exercises and revisions

• Field trips

Assessment is based on the overall competence of the students and may include:

• Oral exam

• Written exam

• Submission of papers, projects or research work

Further details on specific tests can be provided by the professor during the course. Assessment criteria include commitment, active participation and personal growth of the students over the course.

• Deleuze, G. (1981), Francis Bacon.

• Gorz, A. (2018), Ecologica (The French List), Seagull Books.

• Guattari, F. (2014), The Three Ecologies (Bloomsbury Revelations), Bloomsbury Academic.

• Haraway D., (2016) Anthropocene or Capitalocene?: Nature,

• History, and the Crisis of Capitalism.

Further bibliographic recommendations may be provided by the professor during the course. A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.