Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0234 - Collab and Collect in LA Art

This course examines Latin American and Latino art practices based in collaboration and collectivity. We will look at artist groups such as concretismo (Helio Oiticica, Lygia Clark), New York Graphic Workshop (Luis Camnitzer, Liliana Porter), Los grupos (Felipe Ehrenberg, Maris Bustamante), the Mexican Muralists, Tucuman Arde, Polvo de gallina negra (Maris Bustamante and Monica Mayer) and ASCO (Gronk, Harry Gamboa, Willie Herron, Patssi Valdez) as well as individual practices from throughout the Americas. Such practices will foment class dialogue about labor and craft, migration and exile, design and public art, archive and erasure, social products and participatory aesthetics, iconographic imagery and collective memory. Engaging political and aesthetic debates about collaboration and collectivity, many of the assignments themselves will be experiments in co-work as well as interventions into art history by critically engaging and divulging these largely understudied practices. Foreign language skills (especially Spanish and Portuguese) are welcome, but not required.

Culture, Humanities, and Languages Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research In this course, students are expected to spend 8-10 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.