ART 408/508                                                        Art/Artifact                  

Summer Term 2020, August 17- 30

Instructor: Colleen Choquette-Raphael

Camille Henrot

 

This two-week studio course will celebrate the theory of the carnivalesque through an exploration of how artifacts act as mediators of experience.

 

Narratives of the collection, the archive, and readymade will be the primary focus of the class. The 2013 Venice Biennale’s Encyclopedic Palace and art movements such as Fluxus, Arte Povera and The Situationist International will also serve as platforms from which we will operate.

 

Strategies explored: Any work that involves interaction with a found/existing object or image. Various manipulations of imagery and ephemera: montage/collage, artists’ books, games, video, photography, assemblage, small-scale installation and performance.

 

Course will be conducted remotely, engaging students through prompts, lectures,

readings and online meetings. No prerequisites.

 

Late summer mapping of falling stars and forging new constellations from everyday materials.