From Mono to Multiple [ASSOC] (B-LUCA-K35057)
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Aims
This course unit can also be taken by other students of the Association KU Leuven.
Students of other higher education institutions will have to register as a LUCA Interuniversity Student. More information.
NOTE: This course has limitations on the number of participants!
Three places have been reserved for students of the Faculty of Architecture. They are assigned based on the elective choice as organized by the Faculty of Architecture itself.
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The seminar aims to realise these course-specific learning outcomes and educational objectives:
3. the student has knowledge and insight in the societal, cultural, artistic, historical and international context of decolonization in the arts
5. the student has an inquisitive and reflective attitude as a starting point for the development of a personal visual language
6. the student understands the specifics of personal designs and/or realizations and communicating about them in an appropriate way to a critical audience
Previous knowledge
The student must have followed all Bachelor’s degree courses before or must take up remaining courses of the Bachelor’s degree simultaneously with the master’s seminar.
Is included in these courses of study
- Master in de beeldende kunsten (Gent) 60 ects.
- Master in de audiovisuele kunsten (Brussel) 60 ects.
- Master in de beeldende kunsten (Brussel) 60 ects.
- Master in de audiovisuele kunsten (Genk) 60 ects.
- Master in de beeldende kunsten (Genk) 60 ects.
- Master in het productdesign (Genk) 120 ects.
- Master in het drama (Leuven) 60 ects.
- Courses for exchange students Visual Arts (Ghent)
- Master in Audiovisual Arts (Brussels) 60 ects.
- Master in Visual Arts (Brussels) 60 ects.
- Master in de muziek (Leuven) 120 ects.
- Educatieve master in de muziek en podiumkunsten (Leuven) 120 ects.
- Educatieve master in de audiovisuele en beeldende kunsten (Gent) 120 ects.
- Educatieve master in de audiovisuele en beeldende kunsten (Brussel) 120 ects.
- Educatieve master in de audiovisuele en beeldende kunsten (Genk) 120 ects.
- Master in Music (Leuven) 120 ects.
- Master in de muziek: muziektherapie (Leuven) 120 ects.
- Master in de muziek: compositie, directie I/Z, jazz (Leuven) 120 ects.
- Master in het drama (Leuven) 60 ects.
Activities
6 ects. From Mono to Multiple (B-LUCA-K51661)
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Content
The current decolonization process has many voices, perspectives, and positions. Decolonization is not a univocal, nor linear route, and several obstacles and barriers must be overcome. Which artistic strategies can we imagine to fortify this process and to decolonize ourselves? Which artistic practices can we develop to incorporate more multiplicity in our working ways, presentational modes and (historical) narratives?
The seminar starts with an introduction into the Western history of ‘othering’; a deeply rooted often unconscious mechanism of oppositional dualism that situates otherness - as undesirable and unwanted - outside the self. This leads to polarization, intolerance (also towards ourselves), inequality, and systematic exclusion. As is manifestly clear in our colonial amnesia that is part of a monolithic history, that silences other histories and marginalizes other experiences. How can we recognize and reformulate/make tangible marginalized genealogies, and stimulate self-reflexive awareness of the hierarchic excluding mechanisms we are part of? And how can we create (space for) new multiple narratives, that acknowledge interdependency and reciprocity, and that correspond to the multiplicity of today’s world?
Following an interdisciplinary approach - integrating the site-specificity of the Ter Beken campus with its park and various outdoor spaces - we will work with outdoor observations, body-based and (auto-)ethnographic research methods in combination with a practice of listening, bodily performative experimentation, the exploration of alternative epistemologies and ontologies, and the study of decolonial literature (Catherine Walsh and Walter Mignolo, Achille Mbembe, Rolando Vazquez, Gloria Wekker, Arthuro Escobar, Sylvia Rivera Cusicanqui, a.o.). We will address topics such as: systematic discrimination and trauma, extractionism, migration and belonging, placelessness and connectedness, the nomadic artist, shared histories and identities (like Afropeanism), pluriform visions of personhood, non-linear time perspectives and transhistorical storytelling, reframing the archive, positionality, identity politics and safe spaces, co-creation as a strategy for collective maker- and authorship, aesthetics of the 21st century, multispecies etnography and pluriversal practices.
Course material
Presentations and texts available on Toledo.
Format: more information
This seminar requires active participation by the students: reading texts and preparing comments to participate in the discussions, and making 1 short presentation.
The format is interdisciplinairy: combining a practice of listening, bodily performative experimentation, and the study of decolonial literature and/or non-Western ontologies/epistemologies/artistic practices, etc...
Students can integrate personal research matters that are related to the treated subjects: research of family histories/archives, personal experiences and ambitions, collaborations, etc....
Evaluation
From Mono to Multiple (B-LUCA-K75057)
Explanation
Assessment | Grading scale |
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TOTAL | 1-20/20 scale |
Students are actively participating during the classes: this includes reading texts and commenting them during the meetings, and making 1 short presentation. (20%)
The final evaluation consist of making a written text (the style is free; it can be a paper, essay or more experimental writing format), in dialogue with a collection of images. (80%)
Information about retaking exams
The same criteria than for the first evaluation.
Students had to be actively participating during the classes: this includes reading texts and commenting them during the meetings, and making 1 short presentation. (20%)
The final evaluation consist of making a written text (the style is free; it can be a paper, essay or more experimental writing format), in dialogue with a collection of images. (80%)