Kocaeli University / European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Prof. Dr. Hazal AKSOY

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) b
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	High	High	High	High
	2	Middle	Middle	High	Middle	Middle
	3	High	High	High	High	High
	4	High	High	High	High	High

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) The Possibilities and Impossibilities ofParticipatory 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) Can Art Save Our Home? Ecological Art Between Gallery, Museum and Capital.
14) Reproduction of Nature in the Art of Olafur Eliasson.
15) Against the White World: Five Female Artists Five Narratives in Contemporary Black Art
16) Final Exam

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Özgürleşen Seyirci, j. Ranciere, Metis Yayınları, 2010.
2- DISSENSUS Politika ve Estetik Üzerine, J. Ranciere, ayrıntı Yayınları,2020. Avrupa Tarihinde Kentler, L. Benevolo, Literatür Yayınları,
3- Kamusal Alan, Ö. Meral., Hil Yayınları,2004
4- Direniş ve Estetik, Der. Aylin Kuryel, İletişim Yayınları, 2015.
5- Çağdaş Sanat Nedir? Editör: Nursu Örge, Ali Artun, İletişim Yayınları 2013
6- Çağdaş Sanat ve Kültüralizm, Ali Artun, İLetişim Yayınları, 2018.
7- Çağdaş Sanatın Örgütlenmesi, Ali Artun, İletişim Yayınları, 2016.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	40%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	60%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)