ART 408/508                                                         Art/Artifact                  

Summer Term 2021, August 16-20

Instructor: Colleen Choquette-Raphael

Camille Henrot

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. 
―Comte De Lautreamont

 

This one-week remote 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.