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Hoorcollege 1 –15 november..........................................................................................................................................2
Werkcolleges week 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
Hoorcollege 2 – 22 november.........................................................................................................................................4
Werkcolleges week 2.......................................................................................................................................................5
Hoorcollege 3 – 29 november 2022................................................................................................................................6
Hoorcollege 4 – 6 december 2022...................................................................................................................................9
Werkcollege week 4......................................................................................................................................................10
Week 5: Mediation, Remediation – 13 december.........................................................................................................11
Werkcollege Week 5......................................................................................................................................................12
Werkcollege week 6......................................................................................................................................................13
Hoorcollege week 6 – 20 december..............................................................................................................................15
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, Hoorcollege 1 –15 november - What is unique about painting? flat
surface, shape of the support, the properties
History and theories of medium, intermedia and post-
of pigments, viscosity of the paint, etc. All
medium in the Arts.
modalities of the painting.
- Medium (specific).
In Art History: representation is vanishing (van
realisme naar impressionisme, kubisme, etc).
…meanwhile 1960
Mondriaan representeert niks meer, behalve zichzelf.
- Fluxus Festival / Fluxus Manifesto: we’re tired
Denk ook aan ceci n’est pas une pipe. Zet ook tot
of bourgeois art, we’re tired of Greenberg, we
nadenken over representatie.
want to do crazy stuff
Modernisme verandert/verschuift de betekenis van
Going out, meer performance, engagement in
kunst. Niet meer kijken naar muzieknoten, maar
art, het gaat dus veel minder over het
geluid. Geen klassieke sculpturen meer, ook
medium.
abstracter. Niet langer realistisch. Approaching the
Fluxus omarmt dadaïsme. Dadaïsme na WO1,
craft as a craft, niet als iets realistisch.
jaren ’20, anti-bourgeois, organize ourselves
around production, our own things, collages.
Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) // Art Critic and
VB: John Cage (music): was not so much about
Theorist
esthetics, meer over kunst als zijnde kunst.
Medium-specificity.
Geen music maar sounds.
2 classic texts:
Combining, happenings (vb: Cage) and
- Avant-garde and Kitsch (1931)
environments.
- Modernist Painting (1961)
Dit alles dus met een compleet
tegenovergestelde visie t.o.v Greenberg.
Dick Higgins (1938-1998) // Artist and Theorist
Intemedia – Dick Higgins (1965/1981)
Intermedia.
Limits of the notion of ‘pure’ medium (i.e. one
- Fluxus International (kunstbeweging, ‘60)
medium). Greenberg, bourgeois.
- Something Else Press
- Alternative history DADA, happenings,
combines, etc intermedium
Rosalind E. Krauss (1941-….) // Art Critic and
- Intermedia ‘works that fall conceptually
Professor/Theorist
between media that are already known’(52)
Post-medium
- Intermedia fusion (not mixing) of two or
- A view of Modernism (1972)
more existing media (52-53)
- Sculpture in the Expaned Field (1979)
- ‘New media’ new way to approach new
- Two Moments of the Post-Medium Condition
work. VB new media fusionized art: sculpture
(2006)
that looks at tv-screen.
- October (journal)
- Avant-garde creates ‘new media’, but…
‘No reputable artist could be an intermediale
Modernist Painting (1961) Greenberg
artist for long – it would seem like an
- About historicise painting Dialectic (Avant-
impediment, holding the artist back (…) 52.
Garde: vooruitgang). Dus bijvoorbeeld van
- Greenberg would say theatre is mixed media,
realistisch kunstwerk via impressionisme naar
want verschillende pure media singing,
kubisme.
staging, etc. Higgings zegt dus nee het is
- Painting rid itself from the sculptural 3D to
intermedia.
2D (flatness)
- Self-criticism Gain Autonomy / Self-
Meanwhile (1970-now)
identification
Conceptuele kunst.
- Representation ‘The visual art should
confide itself exclusively to what is given in
Two moments of the Post-Medium Condition (2006)
visual experience and make no reference to
The notion of ‘medium’ is limiting doesn’t allow to
anything given in any other oder of
register the ‘emotional’ or ‘conceptual’ register/mode
experience’ (312) painting talks about
of artworks post-medium condition.
painting.
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