Advanced knowledge of the different kinds of texts that form the discourse of arts and society.
Advanced knowledge of the institutional and industrial sectors of the arts.
Ability to prepare and conduct a semi-structured interview and reflect on the different phases of preparing and conducting the interview.
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This course is an introduction to the institutions, agencies, corporate interests and legal frameworks that comprise the contemporary arts sector at the local, European and global levels, and the specific forms of textual and archival practices in which they engage. Theoretical readings on textuality, institutionality, governmentality and globalization inform the study of various institutional stakeholders: museums, performing arts companies, festival organizers, ministries of culture, policy makers, intellectual property organizations and grant foundations. Students also examine, engage in and critique different forms of “institutionalized” writing, e.g., arts criticism, cultural criticism, journalism, policy papers and grant writing. The student prepares and conducts an interview with someone from the cultural sector, which results in a portfolio with e.g. the relevant artefacts that were collected during the preparation, a topic list, a coded transcript, and in an essay based on the interview and the collected information.
Career orientation:
Gain insight in the different types of text used in the arts-based work (e.g. grant proposals, policy papers).
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