Universität Wien

130001 VO Avant-Garde - Aesthetics and Politics of Form (2015W)

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Language: German, English

Examination dates

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October 7, 2015 Károly Kókai, Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Nikolaus Urbanek: Introduction
October 14, 2015 Károly Kókai: Aesthetics and Politics of Form - The Literature of the 1960s - 1980s
October 21, 2015 Noit Banai: Form and Historical Contingency - Towards A New Historiography of the "Neo-Avant-Garde" in France
October 28, 2015 Katalin Ladik: Visual Poems
November 4, 2015 Antje Wischmann: Copenhagen, Newly Montaged - Variations of the Revolutionary City around 1968
November 11, 2015 Pietro Cavallotti: Free Improvisation in the Shadows of the Darmstadt Summer Courses
November 18, 2015 Joachim Dworschak: Czechoslovakian New Wave
November 25, 2015 Andrea Euringer-Bátorová: Positions of Action Art in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s
December 2, 2015 Amy Bryzgel; Performing the East since the 1960s
December 9, 2015 Dietmar Unterkofler: Block-Free Avant-Garde - Art and Politics in the Yugoslavian Avant-Garde After the War
December 16, 2015 Katalin Cseh-Varga: About the Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde. Concepts of Space in the Performing and Intermedia Art of Late Socialism
January 13, 2016 Annamária Szöke: Miklós Erdély and the Possibilities of Difference
January 20, 2016 Wolfgang Müller-Funk: Beuys-Warhol
January 27, 2016 Exam

  • Wednesday 07.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 14.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 21.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 28.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 04.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 11.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 18.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 25.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 02.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 09.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 16.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 13.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32
  • Wednesday 20.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal A UniCampus Zugang Hof 2 2F-EG-32

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Aims, contents and method of the course

The aim of the lecture series is to analyze critically the phenomenon of the avant-garde based on its formal criteria and political positioning, through an interdisciplinary dialogue involving the academic fields of literary studies, art history, philosophy, musicology, film, theater and media studies.
The classical/historical avant-gardes generated specific forms, which were on the one hand aesthetic manifestations of single avant-gardist groupings and movements; on the other hand they had implied political meaning. In Futurism these forms were the serata, and in Dadaism soirees. In the visual arts, one can highlight montage and collage as well as geometrical abstraction; in literature it could be the manifesto; in theater and film the inter- and transmedia experiment. The neo-avant-garde emerged e.g. with concrete poetry, installations, expanded cinema and with the global genre of event-based art (performance, action art, event, happening, etc.), whose success story can be traced until today.
The focal point of the individual lectures will be the analytical monitoring of interdisciplinarity and formal interdependency - essentially, the border-crossing of the avant-garde. The term and the definition of "avant-garde" itself will be debated, as well as the borders and junctures between the arts. In the diversity and temporary existence of forms lies the manifestation of the aesthetics, which we tend to call "avant-gardist". With the lectures we also want to reflect on the social and cultural influence of the avant-garde through political intention, positioning and effect of forms.

Assessment and permitted materials

Written exam

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

will be distributed during the lectures.

Association in the course directory

Finno-Ugristik: MHu 101, MHu 102, MHu 201, MHu 301, BHu 563, BHu 305
Musikwissenschaft: B10, B13, B18, M03, M04, M05, M07, M10, M15
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