Art Studio 370 - TOPICS IN INSTALLATION ART

Topics course. In this course we create and critically interrogate socially engaged art. The focus is the subset of those practices that originate and gain power from remembering events of the past. Formats include site interventions, community collaborations, performance, traditional studio practices or intersections of these. The processes and physical forms of the (art) works complicate boundaries between art and education, art and sociology, art and activism). The course is organized as a laboratory/workshop to experiment with ideas and forms of socially engaged art. At the same time, we discuss (aesthetic and participant impact) rubrics for these projects, and analyze their efficacy. A required fee of $25 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Prerequisite: One studio art course or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12.

Topic: Unforgotten: Memory & Socially Engaged Art. Instructor permission.