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
