blog post 1.0: What is art? What is design? Post three words that first come to mind about art or design and an image of a work of art or design that embodies at least one of those words. Feel free to make up words or to chose words in languages other than English.
read 2 texts: 1) Alexander Nemerov, "Introduction: Experience," in Experience, ed. Nemerov (Chicago, Paris: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2017), 10-23. (eClass PDF + online); 2) Hagi Kenaan, "Changing Moods" in Mood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, New Theories, eds. Birgit Breidenbach and Thomas Docherty (New York: Routledge, 2019), 22-32 (eClass PDF + library eBook)
topblog post 2.0: post a visual analysis of one of Lee Mingwei's participatory works of art with a photograph of it. While you are writing, think about ways that you can share your own visual experience of the work with you reader as an act of generosity. Show the reader your own attunement to the work and how you encountered it.
artist: Lee Mingwei (b. 1964, Taiwan/US/France). Explore artist's website
read 2 texts: 1) Jill Dolan, "Critical Generosity" on arts writing online; 2) Irina Aristakova, "The Man Who Welomes: Lee Mingwei," in Arrested Welcome (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020), chapter 3 online book
virtual "field trip:" conversation with Lee Mingwei at 12:30 pm MDT
blog post 3.0: post a visual analysis of one of Nkanga's works with a photograph of it. As you write your analysis and choose your words, think about some of the issues of ecological vision and the feeling of being haunted discussed in the readings for this week's conference.
artist: Otobong Nkanga (b. 1974, Nigeria, based in Belgium), watch "Imagining the Scars of a Landscape" Tate Shots; visit artist's website
read 2 texts: 1) Tim Ingold, "Bringing Things to Life: Creative Entanglements in a World of Materials," Working Paper #14 REALITIES, University of Manchester (2010) (eClass PDF); 2) Anna Tsing, et. al., Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), introduction. (eClass PDF + eBook); 3) OPTIONAL: Ken Saro-Wiwa, "Adaku" in Adaku and Other Stories (London: Harcourt, 1989) (mentioned by the artist in the Tate Shots video)
virtual field trip: Tate and Oxford Art Museum
blog post 4.0: post the name of the author and title of a book, article, essay, exhibition review, of any kind of prose about art or design that has been important to you, along with 1-2 sentences from the text, and come to conference prepared to talk about it.
artist: Fu Baoshi (1904-65, China), watch short video introducing the artist's painting practice (Chinese with English subtitles, 5:06 min.) read 3 texts: 1) Lisa Claypool, "An Artist's Glance," PAHA (2021): forthcoming curatorial statement and project (eClass PDF); 2) François Jullien, The Great Image Has No Form, or The Nonobject Through Painting, tr. Jane Marie Todd (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009), 1-14. (eClass PDF); 3) Michael Ann Holly, "Interventions: the Melancholy Art," Art Bulletin 89, no. 1 (March 2007): if you are interested in the history of art history as a discipline in North America and Europe, please read the entire article. For our purposes, we will be thinking about melancholy not only as a mood expressed by Fu Baoshi in his paintings that may move us, but also the way it colours our writing and art historical practice, and so we will focus on pp. 7-8 and 13-14 (eClass PDF & JSTOR); 4) OPTIONAL for those of you who want to think more about the tourist's gaze in motion: Jonas Larson, "Tourism Mobilities and the Travel Glance: Experience of Being on the Move," Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism 1, no. 2 (2001): 80-98. field trip: The Tokyo National Museumn blog post 5.0: post a visual analysis of a work of art from the Tokyo National Museum collection (it can be one that we discussed in conference). Be attentive to the ways in which the format of the painting asks you to see and move with (to be moved by it) in a particular way. artist: Nakaya Fujiko (b. 1933, Japan), watch "Veil: Fog Installation at Glass House" (4:15 min.) read 3 texts: 1) Yuriko Furuhata, "The Fog Medium: Visualizing and Engineering the Atmosphere," in Screen Genealogies: From Optical Device to Environmental Medium, eds. C. Buckley, R. Campe, F. Casetti (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019), 187-213; 2) Raqs Media Collective, "Wonderful Uncertainty" in Curating and the Educational Turn, eds. Paul O'Neill and Mick Wilson (Amsterdam: De Appel, 2010), 76-82 (eClass PDF); 3) Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin (Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley, 2012), 38-52 (library eBook); 4) OPTIONAL: "Fujiko Nakaya at the Glass House," Artforum interview (November 2014) virtual field trip: architectural tour of the Glass Housejan 26 / movement (melancholy)
feb 2 / movement (uncertainty)
blog post 6.0: rewrite the first sentence of the visual analysis in blog post 3.0 or 4.0 or 5.0 so that it does the work of showing your reader what you see and encouraging them to want to read on.
artist: Brian Jungen (b. 1970 Canada, Dane-zaa), watch Brian Jungen in "Vancouver" (12:41 min.)
artist: Casey Koyczan (Yellowknife-based Cree/Dene) see artist's website
read 3 texts: 1) Okuwi Enwezor, “Intense Proximity: Concerning the Disappearance of Distance,” inIntense Proximity: An Anthology of the Near and Far, ed. Enwezor (Paris: Centre national des arts plastiques Tour Atlantique and Artlys, 2012), 18-34 (eClass PDF); 2) Dylan Robinson, Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020), TBA; 3) OPTIONAL: "Interview with Homi K Bhabha" in Brian Jungen (Rotterdam: Witte de With, 2015), 7-16 (eClass PDF and eBook).
field trip: Ociciwan Gallery?
blog post 7.0: post 1-2 sentences from this week's reading that help you to better see the work of art that Clark is writing about.
artist: Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665, France), for a glimpse of Poussin's painting, watch this 2-minute video
read 3 texts: 1) T.J. Clark, The Sight of Death (New Haven: Yale, 2008), 1-23 (eClass PDF); 2) George Steiner, Real Presences (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989), 179-200 (eClass PDF); Noël Caroll, "The Philosophy of Horror," iai news (October 31, 2018) (online)
field trip: Getty
topblog post 8.0: post your exploratory about the object of art or design that you are going to think with, research, and write about in your final paper. Please do so by 5 pm on March 1 so that we have a chance to read through them before conference. We will dedicate 20 minutes to workshopping each project. The presenter should plan to speak for 3-5 minutes about how they selected the object, and the discussant will respond with comments about what they liked about the exploratory and questions that they had for the presenter.
Presenter
Discussant
1 Emily
Sarah
2 Sydney
Rojina
3 Fei
Boyd
4 Zoe
Wei
5 Brittany
Jody
6 Ellie
Riddhi
| Presenter | Discussant |
|---|---|
| 7 Sarah | Brittany |
| 8 Rojina | Zoe |
| 9 Boyd | Emily |
| 10 Wei | Ellie |
| 11 Jody | Fei |
| 12 Riddhi | Sydney |
please note: the conference will meet via ZOOM because Lisa will be away from campus. Lisa will send the zoom invite to you for today's conference on March 15.
blog post 9.0: Post an image of a design by Morris that grabs your attention. Please be sure to do so before 5 pm on March 15.
artists: Edward Burne-Jones (1833-98, British), William Morris (1834-96, British), for a totally optional and fun introduction to the Pre-Raphaelites, take a look at the BBC's Desperate Romantics and in a more academic tone, watch this short documentary about William Morris (12:20 min.)
read 2 texts: 1) Caroline Arscott, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones: Interlacings (New Haven: Yale, 2014), chapter 4 "Morris: Four Walls/Heart and Flesh" (eClass PDF); 2) Dave Hickey, "Enter the Dragon: On the Vernacular of Beauty," The invisible dragon, 22-30 (eClass PDF)
field trip: the Victoria & Alberta Museum and the Tate
blog post 10.0: Redraft the first sentence of your exploratory and post
read 2 texts: 1) Wu Hung, A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art, TBA; 2) "Imagination," The Chicago School of Media Theory
field trip to the Mactaggart Art Collection 11:00-1:00
blog post 11.0: post a photograph of a sculptural work that has invited your touch
artist: Selene Huff (Canada)read 1 text: 1) Hagi Kenaan, "Touching Sculpture" in Sculpture and Touch, ed. Peter Dent (London: Ashgate, date), 45-59 (eClass PDF)
field trip: Selene's studio
blog post 12.0: write a short paragraph about your experience of encountering art and design online
artist: Marilène Oliver (UK), see her work in the DY3CORPIA virtual galleries and her website
read 2 texts: 1) Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (London, New York: Verso, 2020), Introduction (3-14), Glitch Refuses (16-37), Glitch is Skin (100-108) (eClass PDF); 2) Sun-ha Hong, "Presence, or the sense of being-there and being-with in the new media society" first monday (online)
field trip: Marilène's studio