| Beschreibung |
High or low culture, canon or underground, worthy or irrelevant art: The university continues to be an integral part of the actors that teach us to understand and value some things as more valuable than others. It is time to get to the bottom of these rating mechanisms! With several practical exercises for enthusiastic trash artists from all disciplines, the seminar explores the grey areas of good taste, the difference between trash and camp, between noise and Krach, the similarities between Alexander Marcus and Sophia Süßmilch, the Literary Quartet or Temptation Island. The class will endeavour to visualise and redefine art that is valuable to us and find the courage to playfully serve or subvert the mainstream, as the case may be.
Interdisziplinarity | Working with examples from different art forms and interdisciplinary artists (examples) the class tries to overcome discipline boundaries and focus on the broader question of worth and power dynamics which affect all art forms. The different practices during the seminar encourage the students to use artistic strategies they don’t usually go for. By addressing students from all study programs the class tries to establish the take, that not art-only study programs inhabit artistic strategies, while also critically reflect on the unspoken hierarchies between art-only study-programs and for example art mediation. It reaches out to find glam and trash in any discipline.
Learning Goals | A large part of university programs is to develop a sense of what works better and what works worse (for oneself and for the audience, clients, the "market") through one's own practice and the reception of other works. This instinct is rarely talked about; it tends to develop in passing. Some people have an advantage over others: those who are already surrounded by art and intellectuality at home are better able to successfully navigate the invisible judgement lines of good and bad taste. TRASH teaches how to talk about it. By conveying content as art that has little to do with a classical concept of art because it is too popular, too trashy, too abysmal, too low-threshold, it strengthens the students' courage to negotiate in their work what really interests them, contrary to the perfomance pressure of their academic environment. The course teaches failure as an opportunity and increases students' resilience with regard to entering a potentially precarious labour market.
Didactical Concept | In 3 blocks, the students dedicate themselves to a repetitive structure of theory (content-related input, listening, watching & analyzing), individual practice (production of own micro-works in given time frames) & group feedback in which they work around and with the following topics:
LEARNING FROM POPULAR CULTURE
We study art that approaches masses and define common signs of “mainstream” culture. (feat. Walt Disney, Billie Eilish, Temptation Island, etc.), our relationships to pop culture and different reception behaviours.
LEARNING FROM NOISE
Feat. Lou Reed, Florentina Holzinger, Tianzhou Chen the students figure out their own boundaries of good taste, explore their own incorporated expectations, habits, the ability to be surprised and go beyond evaluation.
LEARNING FROM „RUDE ART“:
Visiting works of Andrea Fraser, Mara Genschel & Christoph Schlingensief we study different strategies of the productive breaking with agreements that structure the rooms art is showed & exhibited in| |
| Zielgruppe |
The course is conducted as a „Students’ ”Bauhaus.Module” and open to all Bachelor, Master and PhD students of the faculties of Architecture and Urbanism, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Art and Design, and Media. Before registering, please consult your academic advisor and clarify whether this course can be credited to your curriculum. If required, you can conclude a learning agreement (DE/EN) before the start of the course. |
