TO BE OR NOT TO BE IN MUSEUM: “THEORY AND PRACTICE OF VISUAL ART” MOBILE

A mobile master fund seminar with excursions to the museums.

Project start:
2021
Project completion:
2022
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ARCHAEOPTERYX CONTOUR FEATHER, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, May 14, 2022, pencil on paper, 210 mm x 297 mm, Frank Geßner

In the beginning there was the line: drawing is a medium for spontaneous communication and notation, autonomous artistic expression and training of pictorial, plastic, and spatial thinking. However, visual arts understood as “image as construction” sees its role primarily in creating interfaces between all art forms. “Everything is drawing. A sculpture is a drawing in three-dimensional space. A painting is a drawing with colors. You can say, at least for me, that everything is just drawing.” Alberto Giacometti

“What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more. (...) In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.”  Sontag, Susan, 1966, “Against Interpretation”, in: AGAINST INTERPRETATION AND OTHER ESSAYS, New York: Dell, S. 1-10.

Excursions

EX ANTE: Three Letters, Giacometti, Alberto, 1968, in: BEGEGNUNG MIT DER VERGANGENHEIT: KOPIEN NACH ALTER KUNST, Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, pp. 7-10.

07.05.2022, Humboldt Forum 

14.05.2022,  Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

21.05.2022,  Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin 

28.05.2022,  Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg

04.06.2022,  Museum Berggruen 

11.06.2022,  Altes Museum

18.06.2022,  Neues Museum 

25.06.2022,  Bode-Museum 

02.07.2022, Kunstgewerbemuseum

09.07.2022, Museum Europäischer Kulturen

16.07.2022, Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin

17.07.2022, Museum für Kommunikation Berlin

Family-friendly museum visits: open to all guest students, BA and MA students, Meisterschüler*innen, doctoral students, and interested parties.

Project Management, contact: Prof. Frank Geßner, Theory and Practice of Visual Arts

Project collaboration: Prof. Dr. hc. Bazon Brock, DENKEREI

FLUXUS PRIZE TO BAZON BROCK: 27th TDK, “BAZON BROCK - ART AND WAR”, DENKEREI BERLIN & FILMUNIVERSITÄT BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF, May 19, 2022. On the occasion of the opening ceremony of the "Graduate Academy" in the framework of the 27. Transdisziplinären Kolloquiums, Institute for Artistic Research/IKF.

Participating Students SS 2022: Allan Bailey, Olga Bankova, Anna Felicia, Aurora Bergström, Xenia Ciuvaseva, Anna Siobhán Fiedler, Rosa Galli, Ido Mata Gotlib, Jakob Alexander Grasböck, Olga Krystyna Gredig, Antonia Felipa Goltz, Cecilia Hökenschnieder, Linus Paul Joos, Ben Karl Kelterborn, Anika Koppe, Johanna-Marie Kowalski, Alexander Omar Salahaddin Lang, Fabian Marcel Salgado, Marharyta Solodkova, Hyejin Lee, Anna Vladimirovna Makarova, Lorenzo Mario Minutella, Dyaa Naim, Eva Perhacova, Paulina Malgorzata Peschken, Irina Rubina, Katarzyna Suchecka, Angelina Urbanczyk

Periods: WS 2021/22 & SS 2022

Funding: Master fund

Contact: Frank Gessner, f.gessner(at)filmuniversitaet.de