Cultural analysis / Art Analysis and Reading / Exhibition policy

Teacher : Michela Sacchetto

The course approaches and questions the cultural - aesthetic and socio-cultural stakes of the modes of presentation and exhibition in art. It proposes to situate the cultural presuppositions emanating from different exhibition practices in a historical and theoretical perspective, and to point out with the students the zones of porosity that lie between making art and exhibiting it, showing it, demonstrating it, and circulating it. The course will begin with approaches developed by authors and artists who have worked to deconstruct the exhibition from a historical, critical or speculative point of view, including Julie Ault and Group Material, Tony Bennett, Claire Bishop, AA Bronson and Peggy Gale, Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro, Elitza Dulguerova, Patricia Falguières, Reesa Greenberg, Miwon Kwon, Brian O'Doherty, Peter Osborne, Rémy Parcollet, Mary Anne Staniszewski and Dorothea von Hantelmann. It is then configured in a seminar mode, around the devices that the students engage or wish to engage in to present their research, their works or their processes. In order to think about the notion of device, the course proposes to draw on the reflections elaborated by Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Hito Steyerl, Frank Leibovici and Véronique Servais.

Mandatory course for all Masters: Art Practice - Critical Tools, Simultaneous Arts and Context (MA), Narratives and Experimentation / Speculative Narration, Politics and Experimentation graphique→ Artistic Practices and Scientific Complexity and Design and Politics of the Multiple (MA).