REGISTRATION INFO: ARTS 391 - SECTION B - CRN 31213
SUMMER 1
May 17 - June 11, 2005
Instructors: J. Meredith Warner (MFA Candidate Painting) and Denise Posnak
(MFA Candidate Dance)
Art, Performance and the Document: Strategies for Revealing
the Temporary
Objectives:
1. Examining the role of the body and performance with in the context
of the creation of temporary, site specific works.
2. Examining the role of site with in the context of the creation of temporary,
site specific works.
3. Examining the implications of the re-creation / documentation of site-specific
work in a gallery.
4. Introduce students to working collaboratively with students from different
fields.
This summer course aims to provide students with strategies for the creation
of site specific work. With in the context of “site specificity”,
students will be asked to address more specific topics like: performance,
place and time.
Nested in this overall objective is the problem of documentation. Throughout
the course, students will be asked to consider new modes of representation,
documentation, relocation, mobility, distribution and understanding of
artworks and performances that exist outside of the traditional art setting.
To finish the semester, students will have access to a local gallery,
Open Source, where they will put on a final show. This opportunity will
provide them with first hand experience of how work is re-contextualized
when it is relocated.
Class Structure:
Unit 1 - Body, Gesture and the Figure in Performance
Reading: “Reality / Mediality - Hybrid processes between art and
life”
By: Rudolf Frieling
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/performance/1/
Artists: Judson Dance Theater, John Cage, Yoko Ono, Marina Abramovic,
Ukeles, Bruce Neuman, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys, Carolee Schneeman, Nam
June Paik.
Unit 2 - Space, Site, the City and the Land
Reading: “Monuments of Pasaic”, Robert Smithson
Selections from “No Art = No City”
Artists: Center for Land Use Interpretation, Marienette Cueco, Serra,
Smithson, Martha Swartz, Richard Long, James Turrell, the Iceberg Project,
Andy Goldsworthy, Situationist International, Glowlab, Stump Cozy Project,
Lucy Orta, Krzysztof Wodiczko.
Unit 3 - Site-non-Site, Addressing the Specifics of Location
Visiting Guests: Jeremy Beaudry, Jennifer Danos, David Prinsen –
Open Source
Reading: Selections from “One Place After Another”, Miwon
Kwon and “Space Site, Intervention” Suderburg, “Site-Specific
Art: Performance, Place and Documentation”, Nick Kaye
Mel Bochner, Faith Wilding, Gabriel Orozco, Sol Lewitt, Dan Flavin, James
Turell, Gordon Matta-Clark, Walter de Maria, Jannis Kounellis, Bill Viola.
Proposed Travel:
Students will take trips all over the Urbana-Champaign area. They will
visit and use resources such as the Urbana Public Library, Champaign County
Historical Museum, Industrial sites, Malls and locations across campus.
Transportation will be your responcibility. We will be walking (A LOT)
everyday!
MCA Chicago
- Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye
Occupying the entire MCA building as well as its outdoor spaces, the works
in the exhibition Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s
Eye— ranging from large scale installations and sculptures to more
intimate photographs and videos— focus on the phenomenon of international
visual artists whose work responds to their experience of traveling and
living within various cultures. Addressing issues related to tourism that
include spectacle, architecture, authenticity, history, souvenirs, and
anthropology. Universal Experience will feature work by more than seventy
artists including Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Darren Almond, Matthew Buckingham,
Chris Burden, Maurizio Cattelan, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Peter Fischli and
David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov,
Jeff Koons, Aleksandra Mir, Mathias Muller, Gabriel Orozco, Martin Parr,
Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, Thomas Schutte, Simon Starling, Thomas
Struth, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Piotr Uklanski, and Andy
Warhol.
Targeted Student Body:
This course will be taught by two instructor from the fields of art and
dance. It is open to students from all departments - though the departments
of art, dance, theater, architecture, urban planning and landscape are
highly encouraged to enroll. This is intended to be an interdisciplinary
course - cross-field collaboration will be highly encouraged!
Technology needs and fees:
Students will have one weeks access to the Art and Design Computer Lab
and check out window. They will use digital cameras and DV cameras to
document their performances. The labs will be utilized for still and video
editing. Students will be charged an appropriate Lab Fee for the usage
of these facilities.
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REGISTRATION INFO: ARTS 391 - SECTION B - CRN 31213