Fall
2008
FPA 460:
Studio in Visual Art V
Tuesday & Thursday, 2:30-5:20, Alexander Center
Instructor:
Judy Radul
Email
is the best way to reach me: jaradul@sfu.ca
Week 1
Tues. Sept 2: Student Presentations
Thurs Sept. 4: Student Presentations, 4 pm semester
orientation
Week 2
Tues.
Sept : one to one meetings 1-5
Thurs. Sept. 11: one to one meetings 6-10
Visiting Speaker,
Sept. 11, 1 pm: Jochen Becker
(Bice Cappel applications
due soon)
Week 3
Tues.
Sept 16: Independant work day
Thurs. Sept. 18 : one to one meetings 11-15
Week 4
Tues.
Sept 23 one to one meetings 16-18
Thurs. Sept 25 Committees
Struck (fundraising & finance, exhibition coordination, volunteer
coordination, installation coordination, publication, opening, promotion,
documentation), discuss artist statements
Week 5
Tues. Sept 30
Presentations 1-6
Thurs. Oct. 2 Presentations 7-12
Presentations:
Presentations consider the work of an artist the student is intersted
in and who has a significant body of work and whose work seems
appropriate for the excercise.
The
task is to analyze:
1)
the artist's method :
what is their medium? Do they produce by hand, with the help of
assistants, do they use modes of industrial production and manufacture,
etc. What do you think goes into the artist's production (do some
research! find some instance of them talking about their work, if you
can't perhaps think of choosing another artist), do they collect images,
watch movies, look at other artist's work, work with communities, research,
etc.
2)(This
is the most important part) the artist's "strategies": looking
at several of the artist's works what do they have in common? Do
they all involve strategies of negation (refusals, blanks), or amplification
(make it big), multiplication (using many object), translation, animation...Do
they make specific types of referential connections (to pop culture,
art history, other images, etc). What is consistent not about the
'content' of each piece but an overall practice. What are the artist's
artistic questions? (Not the subject matter of the work but the role
that aesthetics plays, for instance not just a picture of "Marilyn"
but using printing to understand the mass production of image/identity.
3)
an extra question, related to the one above: Is there a question
(or two) that the artist could use to interrogate their work once
it is done, to see if it is a work on the trajectory of previous
works? ie) "Does this work continue to use an industrial mode of
image making to querry the status value of the image as well as the
subject of the image?"
Week 6
Tues. Oct.
7 Presentations 13-18
Thurs. Oct. 9 (TBC visiting artist 1:00)
Week 7
Tues. Oct.
14 crits 1-6 (each student produces written feedback, 1 paragraph,
on three other student's work)
Thurs. Oct. 16 crits 7-12
Week 8
Tues. Oct.
21 crits 13-18
Thurs. Oct. 23 feedback due (one copy to each of the students you
wrote on and a copy to me)
Week 9
Tues. Oct.
28 In Class Work
Thurs. Oct. 30 Artist Statements First Draft
Week 10
Tues. Nov.
4 Crits 1-6
Thurs. Nov. 6 Crits 7-12
Week 11
Tues. Nov.
11 Remembrance Day Classes Cancelled
Thurs. Nov. 13 Crits 13-18 /Artist's statements first draft handed
back
Week 12
Tues. Nov.
18. One on one discussions 1-6 with visiting artist Antonia Hirsch
Thurs. Nov. 20 One on one discussions 7-12 with visiting artist Antonia
Hirsch
Feedback
on three of your peers work if you didn't do it last crit (one
copy to each of the students you wrote on and a copy to me) SEND
BY EMAIL to jaradul@sfu.ca
Week 13
Tues.
Nov. 25.One on one discussions 13-18 with visiting artist Antonia Hirsch
-Artist
Statements 2nd Draft emailed to Judy
Artist statements general feedback:
-Don't
be shocked if when you wrote "I love, or I get great pleasure from
doing X, or even I am interested in X" I wrote, "Why would the viewer
care about what you feel or are "interested" in?" This may be overstating
it but the goal is to remember that the statement is not a personal
philosophy or life statement. Particularly as you are younger, emerging
artists this can seem naive or arch. You are writing with the VIEWER's
pleasures or interests in mind not your own.
-That said, the next thing to avoid is predicting the viewer's response,
"You will find, or the work does X" Remember the text you are writing
is being read by the viewer and if your predicted response does not
match theirs (or even if it does) this prediction may ring very hollow.
-make
sure what you say is interesting not just a string of generalities,
or a list of thematic interests. This is where the balancing act with
the personal, individual aspect of the statement comes in. Be as specific
as you can. Don't state that you work is "inspired by feminism" but
rather try to articulate a specific aspect/image/instance of experience
or theory (or both) that you are responding to. For instance "The combination
of X and X is an attempt to reexamine the tensions between sexual
freedom and political anger that were a feature of feminist art."
Thurs. Nov. 27 Last Day of Classes, independent work, tidy up your
spaces etc.
The first crit
of the next semester will be after just two weeks of classes so use
the last two weeks of this semester and Christmas break to work on
new work, and to complete or rework any projects that didn't reach
a full resolution this semester.
Assignments:
Studio Projects
Weekly Journal/Log
of studio activities: What did you do this week in the studio?
Image Bank/Sound Bank/Quote Bank/: An archive of materials relevant
to your projects
Participation in the presentation of visiting artists: documentation,
questions, interviews, written statements, etc.
Grades:
projects (including research/notebook, installation of work, ): 60%
artist statements: 10%
class participation (preparedness for and contribution toward critique
and discussion, including written feedback, studio cleanliness,
safety etc.): 30%
Required Text:
Current issues of contemporary art journals TBA
Relevant Electronic Journals that the SFU library subscribes to
Available through the Electronic
Journals Database at the library
C
(ISSN 14805472)
click on the 'Publication Search' tab on the ProQuest toolbar
Canadian
art (ISSN 08253854)
click on the 'Publication Search' tab on the ProQuest toolbar
October
(ISSN 01622870)
Other Journals
On Line
Recommended Journal
not on line:
Afterall
Aprior (might
be hard to find)
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