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Course Unit Title Course Unit Code Type of Course Unit Level of Course Unit Year of Study Semester ECTS Credits
Art, Audience, Politics RES146 Elective Master's degree 1 Spring 4

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Prof. Dr. Hazal AKSOY

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Discusses the transformation build by the changing paradigm in art and politics since the late nineties.
2) Associates the structural changes that art experienced after the fall of the Berlin Wall with the political, sociological and cultural developments that were effective in the formation of these changes.
3) Recognize the concepts of public space, public art, action art, performance art, ecological art, and political art.
4) Discusses the crossing areas between aesthetics and politics.

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

  Program Competencies
1 2 3 4 5
Learning Outcomes
1 High Middle High High Low
2 Low Middle High High Low
3 High High High High Low
4 High High High High Low

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

Art, an urban practice, has since the Industrial Revolution, the change it has gone through with the city, the attitudes and approaches it has taken against changing policies and urban practices.

Weekly Schedule

1) Art and Audience: Changing Roles.
2) Relational Aesthetics: From Social to Community
3) Take Back the Streets Movement: The Artisticness of Creative Resistance
4) 2000s Neoliberal Policies and Participatory Approaches to Art
5) he Possibilities and Impossibilities of Participatory Art.
6) The Possibilities and Impossibilities of Participatory Art.
7) Public Art (Community Based Art)
8) Midterm
9) Nineties: Public Art Studies in Turkey
10) Between Aesthetics and Politics: Debates on the Artistics of Street Actions
11) Between Aesthetics and Politics: Debates on the Artistics of Street Actions
12) New Approaches to Art and Ecology.
13) Sermaye Arasında Ekolojik Sanat. Can Art Save Our Home? Ecological Art Between Gallery, Museum and Capital.
14) Reproduction of Nature in the Art of Olafur Eliasson.
15) Final Exam

Recommended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods



Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Field Study to Course Grade

40%

Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade

60%

Total

100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required