Course of a visiting foreign pedagogue 2023
KDT/FU053 Course of a Visiting Foreign Pedagogue
An elective course in English open to third-year students of the Bachelor’s study programs in Design (specialization in Design) and Fine Art.
Winter semester of the academic year 2023/2024
This course takes place in the Studio of a Visiting Foreign Pedagogue at Ústí nad Labem House of Arts (DUÚL). The contact persons responsible for organizing the teaching of this course at DUÚL are:
- for studying matters prof. Mgr. Michal Koleček, Ph.D. (michal.kolecek@ujep.cz)
- for organisational matters Kristýna Císařová (kristina.cisarova@ujep.cz)
Scheduled: Thursdays from 3PM to 6PM
The course will take place on the following dates: 19/10 – presential at DUÚL, 26/10 – presential at DUÚL, 02/11 – presential at DUÚL, 09/11 – presential at DUÚL, 16/11 – online course, 23/11 – online course, 30/11 – presential at DUÚL, 07/12 – presential at DUÚL, 14/12 – presential at DUÚL
The maximum number of students enroled in the course, and the inclusion of students, will be determined by the timely registration in the STAG system, with a limit of 10 students.
This course is included in the study plan for the winter semester of the third year of the Bachelor’s study programs in Design (specialization in Design) and Fine Art. Students who enrol in this course and successfully complete it during this academic year will receive two credit points. The condition for the third year is to obtain two credit points from optional subjects. Therefore, students do not need to register for another optional subject.
Visiting foreign lecturer for the winter semester of the academic year 2023/2024:
MARCUS NEUSTETTER
TRACES
As commentators, illustrators and creators of our worlds we are in a perpetual state of searching. This module acts as a lab, a process focused studio to seek, share and build collective, cross-disciplinary experiments that leave traces of their journeys and intended impact.
We’ll be:
Mapping: looking at the line, at borders and actions of vulnerability across the personal, the social, the political, the contextual and the every day.
Illustrating: activating the unknown, the undefined and the space in-between in an attempt at world and sense-making in the current meta-crisis.
Embodying: Probing and agitating tensions between the public and the private, the collaborative and the personal, the natural and the technological.
The artistic intention for this module is to find a collaborative space of experimental production, an active space of play that is generated by the juxtaposition of the participants interests and processes. The module should be a time and space for finding meaning in chance encounters, in the unexpected and the byproducts of making, together we’ll explore artistic relevance in the shaping our future practices.
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Marcus Neustetter (1976, Johannesburg) earned his undergraduate and Masters Degree in Fine Arts (2001) from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Interested in cross-disciplinary practice, site-specificity, socially engaged interventions and the intersection of art and activism, Neustetter has produced artworks, projects, performances and installations across Africa, Europe, America and Asia. Searching for a balance between poetic form and asking critical questions, his media fluctuates in response to concept and context. Ideas often circle the intersection of art, science and technology in an attempt to find new perspectives on his process. As artistic director, facilitator, researcher and strategist to various creative industry areas, he finds himself building opportunities and networks that develop interest beyond his personal artistic practice into seeking entrepreneurial and alternatively cultural ecosystems through his 20 year collaboration with Stephen Hobbs as The Trinity Session. Neustetter is an adjunct professor with the Nelson Mandela University and currently moves between his studios in Johannesburg and Vienna.
Projects, exhibitions and accolades include: Winner of the World Technology Award for the Arts 2015, NY, USA; Artist in Research Fellow for the Smithsonian National Museums of African Art and Air and Space, Washington DC, USA; Sweep, a commissioned public performance for the UNESCO International year of Light, Merida, Mexico; Renaming the City, a commission as The Trinity Session by the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria; Into the Light, solo exhibition at the Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa; Absent Collection, installation at Cairotrinca, Egypt; Sud Triennial 2014 /2017 invited artist, Douala, Cameroon; Occupy, solo exhibition at Circa Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; Sutherland Reflections, art-science project with the South African Astronomical Observatory and Southern African Large Telescope; Participants in Vents de Rose Numerique, Senegal, Mali and Martinique; Temporary Museum of Art, Havana Biennial, Cuba; The Vertical Gaze, installations at the Nirox Foundation, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa; Imaginary Futures, commissioned planetarium show Bloemfontein, South Africa, and online networked performances; Artistic director of ISEA2018 Durban (International Symposium of Electronic Art); Lead the Way Again artwork for the ISS and the Moon with the Moon Gallery; Leonardo Lazer Paris presenter; Lead the Way Again solo exhibition at TMRW, Johannesburg; Ivy, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, Visible Resonance commission for the Wits Centenary Celebration, Johannesburg; Global Periphery symposium and performance with Annick Bureaud Paris.
Current:
marcusneustetter.com