LU Pei-Yi
(Ph.D., humanity and Cultural Studies, University of London, UK)
Assistant Professor, Creative Industry Department.
Research Area: Curatorial Studies in Theory and Practice, Off-Site Art, Taiwan Contemporary Art, Cultural Studies.
(Ph.D., humanity and Cultural Studies, University of London, UK)
Assistant Professor, Creative Industry Department.
Research Area: Curatorial Studies in Theory and Practice, Off-Site Art, Taiwan Contemporary Art, Cultural Studies.
Course Outline:
Art is about the features of particularity, difference and the interpretation of personal living experience; while the public sphere is built up by the people, relating to the community of share. When the art in the public sphere, how to negotiate the difference? Art or the public which one is more important? What the role of art could play?
- Introduction
- The debate of Public and Private
- Whose city and for whom?
- Public space
- Public Art
- Lecture by invited speaker
- Monument, identity, memory
- Graffiti as resistance
- Mid-term examine
- City needs Art?
- Site visit
- Art in the community
- Art in the countryside
- Art and urban regeneration
- Art / Actvism
- Presentations by students
- conclusion
- Final-term examine
Implementation method:
Lecture, site visit and discussion
Grading Policy:
Participation 30%
Mid-Term Report 30%
Final Report 40%
References:
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, The University of Chicago, 1985
Alastair Hannay, The Public, London: Ruttledge, 2005
Jane Rendell, ‘Public Art: Between Public and Private’, in Locality,Regeneration & Diversities, 2002
Claire Bishop (ed.), Participation (Documents of Contemporary Art), London: The MIT Press with Whitechapel Gallery, 2006
Claire Bishop, Artificial Hell: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship, London: Verso, 2012
Rudolf Frieling (ed.), The Art of Participation-1950 to Now, San Francisco: SFMOMA, 2007
Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics, Paris: Les Presse Du Reel,1998
Boris Groys, Going Public, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2010.
Boris Groys, Art Power, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008
Suzanne Lacy (ed.) Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, Bay Press, 1994
Grant H. Kester, Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art, University of California Press, 2004
Miwon Kwon, One Place after Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity, London: The MIT Press, 2004
Claire Doherty , Public Art (Now): Out of Time, Out of Place, Art / Books, 2015