Course detail
Entering the Art World
FaVU-ENARAcad. year: 2023/2024
To be able to succeed in today’s art world, one needs to develop and master not only her creative skills, but also basic skills related to presentation of one’s own practice. This course will focus on selected situations and formats in which authors present their own work, seek financial support, grants, or residencies. These involve formats such an artistic statement, or an informative description of artwork/project, either as part of one’s portfolio or within oral presentation (artist talk). Next to lectures and workshops under the tuition of core faculty staff, the course will also include talks and presentations of visiting artists, curators, residency program managers and other professionals from the field.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Teaching takes place in the FaVU VUT classrooms. In case of guest lectures place can be altered though. Attendance is compulsory (80%).
Aims
Students will gain a basic overview of the requirements associated with such procedures as writing applications for grants and scholarships or for creative residencies. Students will strengthen their competencies in creating their own portfolios, artistic statements and presentations in English. By attending lectures and presentations by foreign visiting artists and art world professionals, students will gain a set of ideas and tools useful for presenting their own work.
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. artist statement (optimal format, scope, what to focus on, what nobody cares about so much)
2. portfolio – presentation of one’s work in the portfolio (optimal structure of the portfolio, format of extended caption, brief auto-interpretation of one’s work)
3. description of one's own work of art / project (dictionaries of various media, sentence constructions, etc.); examples of different types of descriptions, good / bad practice.
4. artist talk – presentation of one’s own work (optimal structure, speaking on camera, speaking to the audience)
5. Grant systems / residency programs – an overview of opportunities and specific options in the wider region of Central Europe
6. Grant systems / residency programs – introduction of a specific institution and successful applications / projects