Universität Wien

080044 VO Site-Specificity in Art and Architecture (II) (2025S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 8 - Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie
Moodle
We 18.06. 15:00-16:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03

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Details

Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 19.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 26.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 02.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 09.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 30.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 07.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 14.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 21.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 28.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 04.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 11.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

A large part of historical art – from architectural sculpture and wall painting to triumphal arches and reliquaries – was site-specific, actively responding to the sensuous-aesthetic as well as the ideological-functional conditions of its surrounding space. However, as a theoretical paradigm, site-specificity only emerged in the late 1960s as a counter-model to the mobile, autonomous, and commodity-like artwork of modernity. In architecture, too, site-specificity was often discussed as an antithesis to the technical rationalism of the International Style (1920s–50s), particularly in the context of the crisis of the CIAM movement (10th and final CIAM Congress, Dubrovnik, 1956). Whether site-specificity constitutes a genuinely ‘postmodern’ phenomenon will only be touched upon in the lecture. The focus will be on case studies that highlight the heterogeneity of site-specific art, while architecture will remain more in the background. Here, sites are not understood as authentic places of memory—following the model of the tomb—but rather as nodal points within far-reaching, translocal networks of influence, ranging from juridical, social, and economic structures to ecological dynamics.

Assessment and permitted materials

Multiple-choice test; allowed tools: dictionary (for non-native speakers).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Acquaintance with the material presented; understanding of factual relationships.
- For a positive grade, at least 50% of the points must be achieved.

Examination topics

The artistic and theoretical positions presented and discussed in the lectures, parts of the related literature

Reading list

Literature will be provided via moodle and a seminar apparatus in the library.

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