Lecturer: Wang Ruobing
Seminar Topic: The Archive of the Everyday
Contact: ruobing.wang@lasalle.edu.sg
Class hours: Thursday, 9-1pm
Location: BT09-02, Bencoolen Tower
Synopsis:
This tutorial will examine methodological approaches that artists use in their referencing of the current, the past, the absent and the intangible in their contemporary practice. While not dealing with archaeology and anthropology per se, the tutorial will look at the ethnographical approach employed by contemporary artists in sifting through, weighing up and ordering knowledge, information, sensations and non-quantifiable data.
The readings will assist the students 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 as well as the political implications of the artist as archaeologist, anthropologist and archivist.
Seminar Topic: The Archive of the Everyday
Contact: ruobing.wang@lasalle.edu.sg
Class hours: Thursday, 9-1pm
Location: BT09-02, Bencoolen Tower
Synopsis:
This tutorial will examine methodological approaches that artists use in their referencing of the current, the past, the absent and the intangible in their contemporary practice. While not dealing with archaeology and anthropology per se, the tutorial will look at the ethnographical approach employed by contemporary artists in sifting through, weighing up and ordering knowledge, information, sensations and non-quantifiable data.
The readings will assist the students 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 as well as the political implications of the artist as archaeologist, anthropologist and archivist.