Decoding ECOspheres I

 Master of arts HES-­‐SO en arts visuels ECAV, Sierre / ECAL, Lausanne / HEAD, Genève Orientation MAPS – Arts in Public Spheres DESCRIPTIF DE MODULE Année académique : 2016-­‐17 Domaine Arts visuels Filière Titre du module Master Arts visuels, orientation MAPS – Arts in Public Spheres Type de module Code Orientation module Type de formation Master Crédits ECTS Semestre SEM 1 : 2 ECTS / SEM 2 : 2 ECTS Lieu Check schedule Prérequis Langues principales Aucun/none Compétences visées / Objectifs généraux d’apprentissage Contenu et formes d’enseignement To challenge assumptions and broadening the understanding of the notion of ecology in the public sphere. Decoding ECOspheres SEM 1 : MAPS022 / SEM 2 : MAPS072 SEM 1 / SEM 2 Anglais This course aims to guide artists towards a study of environmental issues. It will review major ecological concepts and explore the intersections of ecology, ethics, and art practices with a focus on the social construction of nature, humanity-­‐nature relations, landscape, and environmental politics. Keywords: ecologies, nature/culture ontologies, environmental ethics, sustainable development, sustainability and degrowth, deep and shallow ecology, dark and queer ecology, naturalism and anthropocentrism, ecofeminism and environmental justice, supply chain and ecological footprint, linear and circular economy, Land-­‐Art, Earth-­‐Art, eco-­‐aesthetics and climate change art. Bibliography: Robin Attfield, Environmental Ethics: An Overview for theTwenty-­‐First Century, Polity, 2014 Jean-­‐Marc Besse, Le Goût du monde. Exercices de paysage, Actes Sud, 2009 Augustin Berque, Etre humains sur la terre, Gallimard, 1996 Christophe Bonneuil, Jean-­‐Baptiste Fressoz, L’avènement anthropocène, Seuil, 2015 Dominique Bourg, Les sentiments de la nature, La Découverte, Paris, 1993 Andrew Brown, Art & Ecology Now, Thames & Hudson, 2014 T.J. Demos, The Politics of Sustainability: Contemporary Art and Ecology. In Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009, Francesco Manacorda, Barbican Art Gallery, 2009 Matthew Gandy, Queer ecology: nature, sexuality, and heterotopic Alliances, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2012, volume 30 Gérald Hess, Éthiques de la nature, PUF, 2013 Marion Hourdequin, Environmental Ethics, From Theory to Practice, Bloomsbury, 2015 Sacha Kagan, Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2013 Kwon, M. (2002), One Place After Another: Site-­‐specific Art and Locational Identity, Cambridge Mass. MIT press Catherine Larrère, Penser et agir avec la nature. Une enquête philosophique, La Découverte, 2015 Joan Martinez-­‐Alier, The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2002 Dorothee Messsmer, Markus Landert, Moralische Fantasien: Kunst und Klima, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg, 2008 Malcolm Miles, Eco-­‐Aesthetics. Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change, Bloomsbury, 2014 Edgar Morin, Method, vol. 1: The Nature of Nature, Peter Lang, 1977 Timothy Morton, Ecology without Nature, Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics, Harvard University Press, 2007 Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought, Harvard University Press, 2010 Sylvine Pickel Chevalier, L’occident face à la nature, Le Cavalier Bleu, 2014 François Walter, Les Suisses et l'environnement. Une histoire du rapport à la nature du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours, Zoé, 1990 On the Internet: http://www.antennae.org.uk http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.ch http://www.darkecology.net http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-­‐environmental http://www.bafu.admin.ch/dokumentation/umwelt/index.html?lang=fr http://www.ejcc.org http://obsart.blogspot.ch http://www.artcop21.com Modalités d’évaluation et validation To make the most of each lesson preparation is mandatory. Participants will be given texts to read for each lesson (see link below). After each lesson students will be required to submit a 2-­‐3 pages text feedback. Course texts link: http://cyberlearn.hes-­‐so.ch/enrol/index.php?id=4932 Password: ecospheres16 Modalité de remédiation Enseignants Extra assignment Nom du responsable du module Descriptif validé le Eric Maeder Par Eric Maeder 23 août 2016 Federica Martini *Module dont l'échec après répétition peut entraîner l'exclusion définitive de la filière selon l'art. 18, al. 1 et l'art. 19, al. 1 des Directives-­‐cadres relatives aux études master en HES-­‐SO, du 9 mai 2008.