New courses: Philosophy of art and Marysia Lewandowska
CATCHING IDEAS OF BEAUTY: A JOURNEY INTO THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART PART I
Course online
7.11 – 23.11.2023
Deadline for applying: 30.10.2023
More on this link: https://www.curatorialstudiesveniceonline.com/courses-online-in-english/catching-ideas-of-beauty-a-journey-into-the-philosophy-of-art-part-i
A good preparation in the field of art philosophy helps contextualise topics that are too often treated superficially by curators and art critics. Making art or talking about art cannot be approached without a good knowledge of the philosophers who have been instrumental in developing theories of art.
This is an experimental online course that wants to take a closer look at some conceptualizations made on beauty, philosophy of art, aesthetics and the sublime. In these first 6 online sessions we will have a closer look at Walter Benjamin, G.W.F. Hegel and Immanuel Kant. We call these theories and authors classical, which is a word to hide that we forgot about their theories in detail and that we effectively have only wrapped-up conclusions or prejudices about them in our minds. The word “classical” is effectively today a word that means “irrelevant” for our own time and purposes. A “classical” is well known and famous to everybody, but extraneous to us. But the reality is that all these classical theories and texts are much less homogenous and well known as they seem. They are ambiguous and conflictual already for themselves and in their own paradoxes very much relevant for our own ideas of beauty and art theory. In this series of lectures, readings and conversations we do not have to talk necessarily about the realities of art and beauty today, about single artworks or artists — although we might do if we want to — but our focus is set on concepts of beauty and philosophy of art between 1750 and 1930. While doing so we will try to catch the very detailed core of them in their very specific contradictions and ambiguities.
We will try to go to the bone of the idea of beauty in:
Sessions 1 and 2, Immanuel Kant
Session 3 and 4, G.W.F. Hegel Session
5 and 6, Walter Benjamin
Other sessions on Arthur Schopenhauer, Edmund Burke, Friedrich Schiller, Leo Tolstoy, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein among others are planned.
VOICING THE ARCHIVE: WOMEN MAKE HISTORY.
Online course by Marysia Lewandowska for the School for Curatorial Studies Venice.
20.11 – 6.12.2023
Deadline: November 10, 2023
More on this link: https://www.curatorialstudiesveniceonline.com/courses-online-in-english/publishing-as-artistic-practice-online-course-by-marysia-lewandowska
London based, Polish born artist Marysia Lewandowska considers the uses of archives as conceptual tools helping to address relationships between people, their ideas and documents that survived dispersal associated with the passage of time. This seems especially relevant when tracing women’s cultural contributions and difficulties associated with finding their material evidence.The aim of this series of seminars is to bring attention to the relevance of voice and voicing understood in its wider sense as a contribution and political agency.Confronting absence, void, erasure or silence often acts as a catalyst for constructing an artwork, which becomes a corrective intervention in the process of re-visiting histories now. The artist places sound and voice as central agents in contemporary manifestations of political imaginary deployed through listening and feedback. This is consistent with her commitment bringing attention to the role women’s voices continue to play in diverse social contexts.The tactics associated with her practice resonate within a wider community urging us to re-discover and re-arrange the internal “structures of feeling” in which archival knowledge, material traces, artistic expression and open access are given a chance to cross-pollinate and to be heard.
Session 1. – Women’s Audio Archive, 2009
In establishing the Women’s Audio Archive, Lewandowska seeks to create a collection and a site that would act as a meeting point where conversations recorded by her would participate in developing a history of women in the media-visual tradition, which by its ephemeral nature can be easily forgotten.
Session 2. – Tender Museum, 2009
In the Tender Museum project, images of the Muzeum Sztuki, in Lodz (Poland) found in media and film archives, sound recordings enclosed by copyright and private photographic collections are combined in the process of re-distributing and fictionalising the encounter with archival sources.
Session 3. – Open Hearing, 2010
The project Open Hearing revisits the creative politics used by the Greenham Common women peace campaigners to force a public debate and the responses of the legal apparatus to the unprecedented act of so-called civil disobedience.
Session 4. – It’s About Time, 2019
It’s About Time project takes as a point of departure the archival records of meetings held between Venice’s civic, intellectual, and business leaders, and the Mayor, poet Riccardo Selvatico. These early discussions, animated by ideas of civic pride, moral philanthropy, and public good, led to the creation of La Biennale di Venezia in 1895.
Session 5. – how to pass through a door, 2022
The recent project continues Lewandowska’s practice of recovering women’s cultural contributions through the use of voice, previously developed in projects such as the Women’s Audio Archive (2009) and It’s About Time at the 58th Art Biennale in Venice (2019).
Session 6. – Welcome, 2023.
This most recent project re-imagines the 1923 Hannover Kestner Gesellschaft’s exhibition history through a bold performative move, giving voice to an overlooked female contributor. In her opening speech, created by the artist for Sophie Küppers, art historian, collector and future wife of El Lissitzky, we are confronted with a reflective narrative, which challenges our ability to acknowledge and to remember.
The fee is 590 euro.
Our Online Delivery Method Online Study Lectures effectively run over the week – Tuesday and Thursday from 6pm to 8pm CET – maintaining our usual tours’ focused, intensive and immersive experience.Live Seminars – Each lecture is two hours long at the end of each lecture we will have a half an hour for questions and discussions.
Your tutor will hold live seminars with you and Google.meet discussions are accessed via a web-link which we will email to you. These sessions enable you to ‘meet’ your tutor and fellow students. To participate you will only need an internet enabled device; you do not need a Google.meet account. If you have questions that you were not able to raise in the discussions, you will also be able to communicate with your tutor by email.