Ephemeral Art

Base Knowledge

N/A

Teaching Methodologies

The different methodologies leading to the fulfillment of the curricular unit program will be:
– Theoretical component: oral exposition oriented to the planned contents using the projection of images;
– Laboratory practice component: monitoring and guidance in the students’ work.

The assessment in the curricular unit will take place, at the student’s option, in the following modalities:

– Continuous evaluation;
– Exam.

The evaluation in those modalities will obey criteria that will be explained in the statements, according to the following components and weights:

Continuous evaluation
– Practical assignments – 100% weight in the global assessment.

Exam
– Written test: 30%
– Practical work: 70%

Learning Results

3.1 – Understand the concept of Ephemeral Art and its historical diachrony;
3.2 – Identify the differentiating aesthetic contours of the various types of ephemeral art;
3.3‐ Being able to creatively and critically interpret visual messages from different sources;
3.4 – Reflect on the problems of Urban Art;
3.5 – Assess the social and aesthetic importance of Ephemeral Art;
3.6 – Master the different methodological stages in the development of a project, in the different stages of implementation, in the theoretical/practical and methodological domains.

Program

4.1 – Concept of ephemeral;
4.2 – Understand the historical process leading to ephemeral art;
4.3 – Types of ephemeral art (Installation, Happening, Performance, Land Art, Urban Art, etc.);
4.4 – Urban Art and its transformation into res publica;
4.5 – Deterioration and disappearance as elements of a work of art;
4.6 – The appropriation of space and the transience of time as questioning;
4.7 – The creative interpretation of ephemeral art;
4.8 – Acquisition of technical, methodological and theoretical skills, essential for the conceptualization and realization of a personal project.

Grading Methods

Continuing Evaluation
  • - Practical assignments - 100.0%
Examen
  • - Frequency - 30.0%
  • - Practical work - 70.0%

Internship(s)

NAO

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