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Multilogues on the Now. Disability and gender in contemporary feminist curating
Jakalová, Zuzana ; Štefková, Zuzana (referee) ; Pospiszyl, Tomáš (referee) ; Zálešák, Jan (advisor)
Dissertation entitled Multilogues on the Now. Dis/ability and gender in contemporary feminist curating offers a reflection and a theoretical framework of the curatorial methods developed and applied during a long-term exhibition project Multilogues on the Now (2017 - 2022) that took place in Display - association for research and collective practice in Prague. Through a series of exhibitions, discussions, screenings, commissioned artworks, publications, shared meals and workshops, the project’s aim was to comprehensively formulate questions related to bodily autonomy, emancipatory needs for self-determination, social frameworks and nuances of impairment and "disability" and ableist exclusion and discrimination their basis, or the material nature of the non-normative lived experience. The dissertation anchors the project in the context of current debates surrounding curatorial research, intersectional feminist curating informed by critical disability studies. It also emphasizes the importance of auto-theory and embodied perspectives on life with illness and disability in contemporary curatroial practice.
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Czechoslovak modernist Illustration of the 1950s and 1960s and Its Influence on the Identities of Contemporary Czech Artists>
Šrámek, Jan ; Horáček, Radek (referee) ; Sylvestrová, Marta (referee) ; Pospiszyl, Tomáš (referee) ; Stratil, Václav (advisor)
A doctoral thesis “Czechoslovakian modernist illustration of the 1950s and 1960s and its influences in the contemporary Czech visual culture” is focused on how a modernist illustration of the 1950s and 1960s influences Czech contemporary authors, especially illustrators. We can witness a particularly strong influence of the above mentioned modernist illustration and visual culture of that period in general among producers employing digital tools and vector graphics served. The thesis contains a historical study which follows developments of the visual language of graphic arts (illustration in particular) in the 1950s and 1960s in relation to fine arts. There is a special focus on a position of the 1960s’ modernist illustration within the applied arts of the period. Biographical study dedicated to illustrator M. Šašek introduce key figure of the (late) modernist period.
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Safe places
Šavarová, Veronika ; Pospiszyl, Tomáš (referee) ; Kvíčala, Petr (advisor)
The topic of this bachelor‘s thesis is the relationship between a person and one’s space, which is interwoven with feelings of nostalgia and the need to return to the period of the author's early childhood. The work identifies with a number of approaches of several art movements in the first half of the 20th century, such as surrealism, expressionism, symbolism etc. These approaches collide in the author's work, forming a mixture of influences demonstrated together on a personal level in the resulting work. The most honest and credible manifestation of the place is deemed to be the aim of the bachelor‘s thesis. The finished work is intended to inspire viewer‘s intense and conflicting feelings. The autor finds the medium of painting to be most suitable to conveying the topic.
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Back from the Future
Langová, Michaela ; Pospiszyl, Tomáš (referee) ; Kvíčala, Petr (advisor)
The cornerstone is a general view of the future as a world that is markedly different from ours. This vision of the future cannot be done due to the influence of presence. Inner inspiration is objects with unclear functions occurring in science fiction (stories Space Odyssey and AC Clark and iconic roadside picnic). Formally, the objects are inspired by different things from the world of science fiction (kryptonite, traffic alien machines from a newer version of War of the Worlds, Star Trek series and their transporters, etc.). Against this background, I am creating minimal objects with small signs of function as a testimony of traveler to the future. The basic material is a transparent silicone and LEDs.
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Documentary Approaches in Contemporary Fine Art Moving Image
Bačíková, Alžběta ; PhDr. BcA. Andrea Slováková, Ph.D., MBA (referee) ; Pospiszyl, Tomáš (referee) ; Cenek, Filip (advisor)
The Dissertation titled Documentary Approaches in Contemporary Fine Art Moving Image focuses on the practical and theoretical research of documentary approaches to videos and films in the art field. It notices especially the self-reflexive strategies as a consequence of critical approach towards the medium itself and lack of belief in its ability to mediate reality or truth. Attempts to convey reality by audiovisual means are accompanied by the reflection of the way this happens. The Dissertation also reflects on the uncertain relation between the documentary and truth, which has been described in art by the artist and theoretician Hito Steyerl. The examined artworks were made in the period between the beginning of 21st century, when the documentary turn was reflected intensively, and the present time. The selection of examples was strongly influenced by the local study of Israeli art in The Video Archive of the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv. Motives of conflict, violence and trauma resonating in studied videos and films influenced further selection and analysis of the authors’ documentary methods from a different context. In the selected works I can see particularly various forms of alienation effects and self-reflexive approaches. Using these procedures the artists highlight the constructedness of the audiovisual work and the way it was produced. Recurring formal principles have been stated. Reenactment of real events, revealing the way the work was produced or the artist’s position in the production process; these strategies indicate the uncertain relationship between the documentary work and reality. In the frame of these tendencies also reevaluation of the observational documentary strategies as something seemingly opposite to self-reflexive strategies is reviewed. Theoretical outcomes are continuously accompanied by author’s own art projects concentrated around the form of documentary portrait and its (de)construction. They experiment with the formal principles analyzed on a theoretical level.
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Multilogues on the Now. Disability and gender in contemporary feminist curating
Jakalová, Zuzana ; Štefková, Zuzana (referee) ; Pospiszyl, Tomáš (referee) ; Zálešák, Jan (advisor)
Dissertation entitled Multilogues on the Now. Dis/ability and gender in contemporary feminist curating offers a reflection and a theoretical framework of the curatorial methods developed and applied during a long-term exhibition project Multilogues on the Now (2017 - 2022) that took place in Display - association for research and collective practice in Prague. Through a series of exhibitions, discussions, screenings, commissioned artworks, publications, shared meals and workshops, the project’s aim was to comprehensively formulate questions related to bodily autonomy, emancipatory needs for self-determination, social frameworks and nuances of impairment and "disability" and ableist exclusion and discrimination their basis, or the material nature of the non-normative lived experience. The dissertation anchors the project in the context of current debates surrounding curatorial research, intersectional feminist curating informed by critical disability studies. It also emphasizes the importance of auto-theory and embodied perspectives on life with illness and disability in contemporary curatroial practice.
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From landscape to rationality - landscape bases of the Czech neoconstructivism
Dudr, Karel ; Klimešová, Marie (advisor) ; Pospiszyl, Tomáš (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with Czech artists whose work of art imply the development from landscape- painting to rational and constructivist tendencies. Thus it emphasizes four distinctive constructivist artists - Zdeněk Sýkora, Karel Malich, Vladislav Mirvald and Kamil Linhart - and their development until the end of 1960s. The distance from the interwar movements and difference from foreign simultaneous constructivist and rational creation give even greater importance to the proper landscape basis which influence on the particularity of the work of Czech constructively oriented creators is discussed in this thesis. In connection with it the work focuses on the role of Salcman's school or the group called Křižovatka. For the overall insight the work refers to the artists who represent wider range of this phenomenon due to their individual approach to the constructivism and complicated direction from the landscape to the rationality. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Safe places
Šavarová, Veronika ; Pospiszyl, Tomáš (referee) ; Kvíčala, Petr (advisor)
The topic of this bachelor‘s thesis is the relationship between a person and one’s space, which is interwoven with feelings of nostalgia and the need to return to the period of the author's early childhood. The work identifies with a number of approaches of several art movements in the first half of the 20th century, such as surrealism, expressionism, symbolism etc. These approaches collide in the author's work, forming a mixture of influences demonstrated together on a personal level in the resulting work. The most honest and credible manifestation of the place is deemed to be the aim of the bachelor‘s thesis. The finished work is intended to inspire viewer‘s intense and conflicting feelings. The autor finds the medium of painting to be most suitable to conveying the topic.
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