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Presentation
Presentation
This course aims to introduce a set of research methods relevant to carrying out projects in the field of contemporary art and artistic research in an academic context. It intends to equip students with tools to identify, communicate, problematize, and develop working methods appropriate to their artistic objectives. It seeks to lead students to reflect on the practical, ethical, and philosophical implications of their work, developing a deeper awareness of the connections between context, theory, and practice. The course is organized around an artistic research project structured in three progressive phases, analysis of an object and artistic production, documentation and visual essay, through which students practice, in a practical and cumulative way, the entire methodological cycle worked on in the theoretical classes.
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Master Degree | Semestral | 10
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
1 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULHT7008-26399
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
1. Research 1.1 Artistic research within and outside academia. Applications and funding. Institutions. 1.2 Researching art. Artists' discourse on their work. Art theory. Case studies and examples. Social, cultural, and political aspects of the artistic context and art research. 2. Methodologies 2.1 Analyzing - Reading, researching, systematizing. Research platforms; analysis of a referent, gathering and organizing references critically. 2.2 Producing - Translating the artistic research process; making technical and aesthetic decisions. 2.3 Writing - Writing about the creative and research process; initial inspirations and the work itself. 2.4 Editing and Presenting - Visual essay; articulating and communicating the research journey; hybrid text-image formats.
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Objectives
Objectives
The course aims to provide master's students with specific research methodologies using and through art, fostering an understanding of the current landscape of artistic research, its definition, and the issues surrounding it at both national and international levels. The goal is to equip students with theoretical and practical knowledge that empowers them to pursue their projects with academic rigor. To this end, the course develops tools for understanding and constructing critical thinking, as well as reading, writing, and documentation skills, and fosters an understanding of their own artistic and theoretical processes so that these processes can be updated, translated, explored, and shared critically and pertinently within artistic and academic circles.
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Teaching methodologies
Teaching methodologies
The practical application of this content is based on exploratory artistic research, developed from a common reference point defined annually by the professors, and organized into sequential and cumulative phases, with assignments and collective discussion sessions distributed throughout the semester. This structure forces students to repeatedly move between research, practice, and writing, concretely operationalizing the idea of translation that runs throughout the entire course.
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References
References
Cotter, L. (ed.) (2024) Reclaiming Artistic Research, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin Steyerl, H. (2010) Aesthetics of Resistance? Artistic Research as Discipline and Conflict. (https://transversal.at/transversal/0311/steyerl/en) Dillon, B. (2017). Essayism. Fitzcarraldo Editions.
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Assessment
Assessment
Avaliação contínua (20%): Assiduidade, participação e empenho nas aulas.
Avaliação periódica (80%):- Trabalho de investigação artística (70%)
- Fichas de visionamento de filme e exposição (10%)
Critérios transversais de avaliação: pensamento crítico e coerência interna; criatividade; qualidades técnicas; qualidades estéticas.
- Exame de recurso: repetição das fases não aprovadas, ou realização de um trabalho alternativo definido pelas docentes.
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Continuous Assessment (20%): Attendance, class participation and commitment
Periodic Assessment (80%):- Artistic research project (70%)
- Film and Exhibition worksheets (10%)
Cross-cutting assessment criteria: critical thinking and internal coherence; creativity; technical qualities; aesthetic qualities.
- Retake exam: repetition of the phases in which the student did not pass, or completion of an alternative project defined by the instructors.
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Mobility
Mobility
No
