Landscape,
Cities and Contemporary Art

A.A. 2023-2024

The field of contemporary art is a complex ecosystem
with an ever-expanding field of activity. Operating within practices that can
range from site-specific to relational art, from activism to performance,
artists have elaborated what it means to think and act in the public sphere.
This course focuses on the intersection of art, architecture and landscape,
from the experiments of the second half of the 20th century to the
present.  It will explore artistic
practices that engage with the use of public space and its specificities and
problems, addressing topics such as the concept of site-specific,
installations, performance, and relational practices.  The course focuses on the potential of art
and architecture, within the framework and possibilities of the evolving
relationship between people and space, in the forms of Land Art, Street Art and
the Public Art. Lectures aim to provide students with knowledge of the main
current issues in contemporary art in relation to artists' interest in the
exploration of space, interpreted as the complex of architectural, natural and
social contexts surrounding the artwork.