1679.22 - Theory III, Aesthetic Theory and Artistic Practice - formal awareness and artistic experience in interaction

1679.22

Theory III, Aesthetic Theory and Artistic Practice - formal awareness and artistic experience in interaction

10

Upper secondary diploma or equivalent.

Students acquire the ability to think critically and draw on aesthetic theory and operate across genres (literature, music, visual art), in order to build an artistic awareness they can translate into practice.

Through aesthetic theory, which students will be introduced to – and continually invited to reflect on – creative writing, philosophy, music, poetics and visual art, students will learn to operate across genres and conventions. This reflective exercise will enable students to confront and draw on artistic practice and the aesthetic experience they themselves unveil through the creative process. The course will include lectures and focused philosophical and literary workshop alongside creative exercises, and music will be present as a catalytic element, which will sharpen the students’ ability to create and think with autonomy and originality. Theoretical and artistic materials used in this course: selected literature, philosophical texts, aesthetic reflections and strategies, music and music theory will be gathered into a compendium featuring texts by, among others, Arthur Schopenhauer, Fernando Pessoa, Leonard Cohen, Gilles Deleuze and Marcel Proust, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Roland Barthes, Mieke Ball, Brian Eno and Olafur Arnalds.

Teaching will be concentrated in focused periods over the course of the semester with 3 to 4-hour sessions each time. In addition to lectures and discussions there will be workshops and creative exercises. Please note, teaching will at times take place on Saturdays.

Learning outcomes: Students who successfully complete the course can demonstrate ability to: • discuss and clearly distinguish between relevant concepts and approaches in aesthetic theory • reflect critically on discussions in aesthetic theory across genres and conventions • describe independently relevant concepts and theoretical approaches and draw on them in relation to own artistic practice

Set written take-home assignment (14 days)

External

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Curriculum and session plan will be circulated at the start of the semester.

Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger