Day: : Friday
Time: 10-1pm
Location: WB209
Artist/Curator explores the potential overlaps, complements, and conflicts roles of the two disciplines. Through lectures and studio work, students will expose to how artistic practices can be expanded beyond the boundaries of the production of objects, and incorporated with curatorial practices including collaboration, time and space management, writing and editing. The objective of this workshop is to develop in the students both an appreciation and understanding of the blurring boundaries between the artist and the curator. The workshop will also provide the students an opportunity in engaging with such a hybrid practice via curating exhibitions.
Time: 10-1pm
Location: WB209
Artist/Curator explores the potential overlaps, complements, and conflicts roles of the two disciplines. Through lectures and studio work, students will expose to how artistic practices can be expanded beyond the boundaries of the production of objects, and incorporated with curatorial practices including collaboration, time and space management, writing and editing. The objective of this workshop is to develop in the students both an appreciation and understanding of the blurring boundaries between the artist and the curator. The workshop will also provide the students an opportunity in engaging with such a hybrid practice via curating exhibitions.
Day: Tuesday
Time: 5-8pm
Location: WB209
Execution of art projects involving communities. It discusses the shift of the public as audience to participant in the making of an art piece, the position of partners in the execution of the work, the nature of work itself in relation to venue and environment, as well as the intention and integrity of the artist amidst all these. Looking into various factors that an artist needs to consider before, during and after a community engagement project, the class takes place in the form of lectures, presentations, discussions and actual/ on-site community art events. The class will be suitable for those who are working with the public or intending to involve the public in their own artistic work, have interest in creating art events mainly for the public, are keen in using art as a tool to reach to a particular group/community (through a charity project or any project of a humanitarian nature), and to those who are passionate about bringing up certain social/cultural issues to the public through art awareness projects.
Time: 5-8pm
Location: WB209
Execution of art projects involving communities. It discusses the shift of the public as audience to participant in the making of an art piece, the position of partners in the execution of the work, the nature of work itself in relation to venue and environment, as well as the intention and integrity of the artist amidst all these. Looking into various factors that an artist needs to consider before, during and after a community engagement project, the class takes place in the form of lectures, presentations, discussions and actual/ on-site community art events. The class will be suitable for those who are working with the public or intending to involve the public in their own artistic work, have interest in creating art events mainly for the public, are keen in using art as a tool to reach to a particular group/community (through a charity project or any project of a humanitarian nature), and to those who are passionate about bringing up certain social/cultural issues to the public through art awareness projects.
Day: Wednesday
Time: 12-3pm
Location: WB309
RESISTANCE: Critical and Post-critical Strategies of Contemporary Art Practices is Studio Elective that will provide an occasion to reflect on and create works informed by notions of resistance. Relations between art practices and resistance will be developed through three tentatively defined and inseparable topics: first, the often illusive term “critique” understood as re-action against physical/geographic, social, cultural (etc…) “spaces”, “institutions”, “constructs”, etc.; second, an idea of resistance as “post-critical” in that as opposed to re-act against, it can be said to act beyond through different strategies such as proposing “alternatives”; and third, another “post-critical” approach in the understanding of notions of “hidden or invisible realms” such as the Absolute, the Transcendental, the Outside, Life, (or any other culturally specific “ordinarily invisible realm”), as source of, or potential for, resistance. The limits between these three topics are blurred; they serve as points of departure and will be up for debate. Students will develop their own practical work – in any chosen medium –, and their understanding of what it can mean for an art practice or artwork to resist, through two practical projects to be realized individually or in small groups. The sessions will take the form of group discussions stemming from the presentation of photographic and video documentations of a wide-range of artists/mediums/artworks, group brainstorming to generate and play with ideas for the projects to realize, group critique sessions where students will constructively engage with each other’s works, and the critical engagement with some art theory and philosophical writings. Students will actively participate in determining the content the course will explore.
Time: 12-3pm
Location: WB309
RESISTANCE: Critical and Post-critical Strategies of Contemporary Art Practices is Studio Elective that will provide an occasion to reflect on and create works informed by notions of resistance. Relations between art practices and resistance will be developed through three tentatively defined and inseparable topics: first, the often illusive term “critique” understood as re-action against physical/geographic, social, cultural (etc…) “spaces”, “institutions”, “constructs”, etc.; second, an idea of resistance as “post-critical” in that as opposed to re-act against, it can be said to act beyond through different strategies such as proposing “alternatives”; and third, another “post-critical” approach in the understanding of notions of “hidden or invisible realms” such as the Absolute, the Transcendental, the Outside, Life, (or any other culturally specific “ordinarily invisible realm”), as source of, or potential for, resistance. The limits between these three topics are blurred; they serve as points of departure and will be up for debate. Students will develop their own practical work – in any chosen medium –, and their understanding of what it can mean for an art practice or artwork to resist, through two practical projects to be realized individually or in small groups. The sessions will take the form of group discussions stemming from the presentation of photographic and video documentations of a wide-range of artists/mediums/artworks, group brainstorming to generate and play with ideas for the projects to realize, group critique sessions where students will constructively engage with each other’s works, and the critical engagement with some art theory and philosophical writings. Students will actively participate in determining the content the course will explore.
Day: Wednesday
Time: 3-6pm
Location: WB309
The elective draws on documentation and visual materials to illustrate and consider the recent history and artistic parameters of performance and live art practices. The session looks at the principles of live art practices, different forms and sites live artists use, their challenges to audiences and to artistic, cultural and political conventions. The course utilizes the experience and expertise of the art practitioner, Amanda Heng, and its extensive visual resources to deliver engaging and thought provoking sessions, and give insight into performance art from the perspective of the performance artist. The hands on exercises provide the opportunity to students to personally experience and experiment the nature and the processes of the art form, and examine the tools, the principles and characteristic particular to performance art.
Time: 3-6pm
Location: WB309
The elective draws on documentation and visual materials to illustrate and consider the recent history and artistic parameters of performance and live art practices. The session looks at the principles of live art practices, different forms and sites live artists use, their challenges to audiences and to artistic, cultural and political conventions. The course utilizes the experience and expertise of the art practitioner, Amanda Heng, and its extensive visual resources to deliver engaging and thought provoking sessions, and give insight into performance art from the perspective of the performance artist. The hands on exercises provide the opportunity to students to personally experience and experiment the nature and the processes of the art form, and examine the tools, the principles and characteristic particular to performance art.
Day: Wednesday
Time: 10-1pm
Location: WB209
Drawing Machines and Soft Toys is a course that will look at art making strategies that use systems and rule based approaches. Participants will be exposed to a range of artists, works, and techniques that make use of rules, instructions, systems, data or code. Although these are rather technological terms they are not reserved exclusively for technological applications but are being used by artists as materials and tools with diverse outcomes reflecting upon society, politics, culture, nature or beauty.This course aims to discover the Art of Systems and Rule-Based Art making by going back in time and looking at various artists and movements creating works by applying systematic approaches and rules. We will explore techniques that allow us to generate images through instructions, we will look at the beauty and complexity of systems and their visual expressions and we will study and evaluate these based on their rules and sets of instructions. During this course, students may choose to work in any media including but not limited to sculpture, installation, performance, social practice, and/or conceptual art. To capture the development and process of outcome, participants are required to document their individual journey in form of a journal, blog or documentary video. Through lectures, research, and class discussion, students will examine the ways in which artists have responded to and recontextualized systems and rule-based strategies in their work.
Time: 10-1pm
Location: WB209
Drawing Machines and Soft Toys is a course that will look at art making strategies that use systems and rule based approaches. Participants will be exposed to a range of artists, works, and techniques that make use of rules, instructions, systems, data or code. Although these are rather technological terms they are not reserved exclusively for technological applications but are being used by artists as materials and tools with diverse outcomes reflecting upon society, politics, culture, nature or beauty.This course aims to discover the Art of Systems and Rule-Based Art making by going back in time and looking at various artists and movements creating works by applying systematic approaches and rules. We will explore techniques that allow us to generate images through instructions, we will look at the beauty and complexity of systems and their visual expressions and we will study and evaluate these based on their rules and sets of instructions. During this course, students may choose to work in any media including but not limited to sculpture, installation, performance, social practice, and/or conceptual art. To capture the development and process of outcome, participants are required to document their individual journey in form of a journal, blog or documentary video. Through lectures, research, and class discussion, students will examine the ways in which artists have responded to and recontextualized systems and rule-based strategies in their work.
Day: Wednesday
Time: 1-4pm
Location: WB209
This elective aims to look "beneath the surface" of photography. At the heart of the photographic process is a strange translation of the time-space dimension that sees real life events turn into 2D images. But what are these images truly made of? How do they happen? How do they exist? In the first half of the elective we will look at the multiple aspects of the photographic image by first exploring and analysing its different physical states. We will then look at its different conceptual and semiological dimensions. In the second half, physical states and conceptual dimensions will be brought together in the form of a site-specific installation that will work on and expand the time-space perception of that site.
Time: 1-4pm
Location: WB209
This elective aims to look "beneath the surface" of photography. At the heart of the photographic process is a strange translation of the time-space dimension that sees real life events turn into 2D images. But what are these images truly made of? How do they happen? How do they exist? In the first half of the elective we will look at the multiple aspects of the photographic image by first exploring and analysing its different physical states. We will then look at its different conceptual and semiological dimensions. In the second half, physical states and conceptual dimensions will be brought together in the form of a site-specific installation that will work on and expand the time-space perception of that site.
Day: Friday
Time: 10-1pm
Location: WB309
This workshop explores installation art in all media. Students will explore a variety of media including photographs, painting, drawing, video, sound and sculptural materials in their works that expand the physical boundaries of art beyond the discreet object. Projects encourage experimentation with different processes while prompting a reconsideration of the “site” of installation.
Time: 10-1pm
Location: WB309
This workshop explores installation art in all media. Students will explore a variety of media including photographs, painting, drawing, video, sound and sculptural materials in their works that expand the physical boundaries of art beyond the discreet object. Projects encourage experimentation with different processes while prompting a reconsideration of the “site” of installation.
Day: Friday
Time: 1-4pm
Location: WB209
This course is an introduction to ceramic art. It covers the basic techniques of clay forming: pinching, coiling, slab building and glazing. Students will also have the opportunity to experience the entire process of working with clay from the making to firing stage.