Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0333 - Work

Fall
2013
1
4.00
Sara Rafferty

09:00AM-11:50AM W

Hampshire College
312161
Arts Barn STUDIO 2
sgrHA@hampshire.edu
This class calls into question genre specificity and thematic orientation and instead examines the constructs and the philosophical tenets of work. Through independent work in multiple media - including drawing, painting, and basic printmaking, as well as performance, sculpture, installation - students will call into question value structures and assumptions of work in an individual artistic practice. Focusing on the manners of work that typically define art schools, collectives, and concepts of the American "workplace," including the concept of an American work ethic will be foreground. Discussions regarding labor, duties, tasks, exertion, and industry will augment physical studio projects and performances. Readings will include Herman Melville, Carl Andre, Alain de Botton, Helen Molesworth, Joan Didion among others. Contemporary artists will be discussed. This class will also include several collaborative projects, including some that engage the broader community. You will be expected to work. Prerequisite: at least four studio art classes. A minimum of 8 hours per week outside of class time. Open to artists in Division III and late Division II.
Field Trip $60, Lab Fee $100
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.

This course has unspecified prerequisite(s) - please see the instructor.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.