Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Updated Syllabus


NWSA Sculpture 10 Updated Syllabus

Video Project - Since we need to distance ourselves from others, it is a great time to explore the world of video art. The list below is a brief overview of video art, one of the newer mediums gaining popularity in the 1980’s. Video Art explores time and the viewer’s relation to the way the video is presented. These videos are not meant as entertainment so the attention needed to watch them differs greatly from watching a movie or TV program.

Part 1 – Please watch all the videos. It is a lot but they are all important. You may skim through but devote at least 5 minutes to each one and please watch as many as you can all the way through. Write a short paragraph on what you think each artist(22 of them) is trying to do with their videos.

Part 2 – Make an Art Video – After watching all those videos you should be well versed in the varieties of different types of Video Art. Make a one minute long video using your phone or any other means you have available to you. It may include animation, found footage, original footage and can be edited anyway you like. As always it must have a concept.

Ephemeral Project - Ephemeral means lasting for a very short time. We are going to make a series of sculptures that last for only a day, hour, minute, moment, or less. Like the Site Specific, these sculptures will be interacting with their environment and can use the site to help determine what they are about. Materials can be anything, get creative but do not litter. The sculptures can be indoors or outdoors and hopefully seen by someone other than your self. You must make 3 sculptures and document them by photograph or video.  


Proposed Project – In the Art world proposals are very common practice with most organizations requiring artists to make them before work can be done. Some artists (Michael Asher, Sol Lewitt, Allan Kaprow,…) work in just proposals, allowing the museum, gallery, organization, individual or collector to complete the proposal for them. It is very important to explain in detail what you  would like to make, how it will interact with the space, how viewers will be able to interact with it and the concept you are working with.

Part 1 – The Proposal - Look at the list of museums, pick one and create a proposal for a site-specific sculpture to take place at that location. Proposal must include a title, paragraph explaining the work and detailed sketches of the proposed piece.

Museums
The Whitney Museum of American Art

Museum of Modern Art NYC

Stormking Sculpture Park

Socrates Sculpture Park

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Part 2 – Create instructions for a Happening – Listen to Allan Kaprow’s Instructions for a Happening and make your own instructions for a Happening.


Allan Kaprow How to make a Happening

Sol Lewitt

Michael Asher

Art 21 – Watch Art21 videos


MoMa Class – Please sign up and complete the What is Contemporary Art Class on coursera.com https://www.coursera.org/learn/contemporary-art#enroll

Kraus paper – Please read chapters 6 and 7 of Rosalind Kraus Passages in Modern Sculpture and in your own words write a 2 page synopsis.

Final Project – Return to Self - Combining what we have learned in this class create a new work of art focusing on your self as the subject. This can be representational or abstracted, sculptural, performative or video based, actual or virtual, readymade, site specific, site determined, all or some of the above. You must show process including working title, sketches and research.

PDF of all Projects – create a .pdf file with an image, title and description of each project you have done this semester.  

Project list
Readymade
Additive
Site Specific
SketchUp
Video
Ephemeral
Proposal
Final


Monday, March 30, 2020

Ephemeral Project


NWSA Sculpture 10
Ephemeral Project

Ephemeral means lasting for a very short time. We are going to make a series of sculptures that last for only a day, hour, minute, moment, or less. Like the Site Specific, these sculptures will be interacting with their environment and can use the site to help determine what they are about. Materials can be anything, get creative but do not litter. The sculptures can be indoors or outdoors and hopefully seen by someone other than your self. You must make 3 sculptures and document them by photograph or video.  

For inspiration please watch this documentary on Andy Goldsworthy: https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/andy-goldsworthys-rivers-tides/

And these videos by Francis Alÿs:




As always the process is as important as the final product. Make sketches of your pieces with working titles and research other artists that work ephemerally and site 5 sources researched.

Homework and Sketches due April 7th, Projects due April 9th.


Monday, March 16, 2020

Video Project




Since we need to distance ourselves from others, it is a great time to explore the world of video art. The list below is a brief overview of video art, one of the newer mediums gaining popularity in the 1980’s. Video Art explores time and the viewer’s relation to the way the video is presented. These videos are not meant as entertainment so the attention needed to watch them differs greatly from watching a movie or TV program.

Part 1 – Please watch all the videos. It is a lot but they are all important. You may skim through but devote at least 5 minutes to each one and please watch as many as you can all the way through. Write a short paragraph on what you think each artist(22 of them) is trying to do with their videos.

Part 2 – Make an Art Video – After watching all those videos you should be well versed in the varieties of different types of Video Art. Make a one minute long video using your phone or any other means you have available to you. It may include animation, found footage, original footage and can be edited anyway you like. As always it must have a concept.

Part 1 due March 31st
Part 2 due April 2nd

Brief History of Video Art

John Baldessari




Paul McCarthy





Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn




Molly Soda


Miranda July



Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch



Bruce Nauman



Bas Jan Ader
Allora and Calzadilla

Chris Burden

Rodney Graham

Marilyn Minter

Nam June Paik

Paper Rad

Paul Pfieffer

Jordan Wolfson

Superflex

Sturtevant


Carolee Schneemann

Pipilotti Rist

Matthew Barney

Christian Marclay

Mika Rottenberg