Art Studio 370se - Topics in Installation Art-Unforgotten: Memory and Socially Engaged Art

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. Students may require additional materials and are responsible for purchasing them directly. Enrollment limited to 12. Prerequisite: One studio art course. Instructor permission required.