Lecturer: Shubigi Rao
Seminar Topic: Plumbing the Depths: Archaeology, Narratives and Archives in Art
Contact: shubigi@gmail.com
Class hours: Monday, 1-5pm
Location: B209, Winstedt Campus
Synopsis:
This course will examine 3 methodological approaches that artists use in their referencing of the past, the absent and the intangible in their contemporary practice. While not dealing with archaeology per se, the course will look at the archaeological approach employed by contemporary artists in sifting through, weighing up and ordering knowledge, information, sensations and non-quantifiable data.
Narratives become important here, and the readings will assist the student in distinguishing between and correctly identifying the differing forms of the open work, as well as the relevance of material, content and reference. To both these approaches must be added the role of artist as archivist, whether implicated in the work (as it is understood within the archival nature of exhibitions and their accompanying texts), or in the process.
Contemporary global art practices will be discussed, the critical tools employed by artists with special attention to artists who involve or reference text/s (in any form), as well as the political implications of the artist as archaeologist, narrator and archivist. Finally, how artists use the Internet as archive, as library and as landfill will be examined.
Seminar Topic: Plumbing the Depths: Archaeology, Narratives and Archives in Art
Contact: shubigi@gmail.com
Class hours: Monday, 1-5pm
Location: B209, Winstedt Campus
Synopsis:
This course will examine 3 methodological approaches that artists use in their referencing of the past, the absent and the intangible in their contemporary practice. While not dealing with archaeology per se, the course will look at the archaeological approach employed by contemporary artists in sifting through, weighing up and ordering knowledge, information, sensations and non-quantifiable data.
Narratives become important here, and the readings will assist the student in distinguishing between and correctly identifying the differing forms of the open work, as well as the relevance of material, content and reference. To both these approaches must be added the role of artist as archivist, whether implicated in the work (as it is understood within the archival nature of exhibitions and their accompanying texts), or in the process.
Contemporary global art practices will be discussed, the critical tools employed by artists with special attention to artists who involve or reference text/s (in any form), as well as the political implications of the artist as archaeologist, narrator and archivist. Finally, how artists use the Internet as archive, as library and as landfill will be examined.