Characteristic of research
This project is scheduled for three years during, which the main activities in the field of artistic research will take place. Particularly two symposiums (May 2024: V. Ružbachy (SK), May 2025: Hořice (CZ) and one excursion in St. Margarethen (June 2023, Austria). The final workshop (September 2025) at the Faculty of Arts will be related to the pilot implementation of a specialized sculptural laboratory. In its initial phase (the 1st half of 2023), the project will include data and theoretical knowledge collection, lectures by involved experts in this specific and other fields, as well as field research in the form of an excursion to the cult site of the St. Margarethen symposium. In the second part of the project, the main activities will take place in the form of creating practical outputs in selected symposium locations, work on documentation of outputs, and publication preparation or implementation. In the first year, a seminar on the thematic issues of the project will be held at the Faculty of Arts as a research institution, where our cooperating partners will be invited.
Objectives of the project
The main goal of the project is a practical training and also a testing various possibilities of working with traditional materials and current sculptural technologies, utilization of site-- specific strategies and also conceptual creative procedures that will reflect the specifics of the cultural landscape of the symposium site. With the help of multiple outputs, the project will bring new methodology on how to approach such situations and creative possibilities in the teaching process. Another aim is to enrich our teaching and pedagogical process with
elements of the field and artistic research concerning more comprehensive interdisciplinary approach, communication with professional experts in the artistic reflection of the cultural
landscape and public space as well.
Another goal is to establish cooperation between selected workplaces of invited partner institutions - the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. The project is also aimed at cooperation with the Municipal Museum and Gallery of Plastics in the town of Hořice, as well as experts in other
areas affected by this research.
Keywords: 3D, ECOLOGY, CULTURE, CONTEMPORARY ART, GEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION
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