MONDAY
Critique of Kilometre assignment – Bring in your kilometre for discussion, and/or make a post about your kilometre in any media on your Blog page.
Review on how to post to blog
BLOG Deadlines and expectations:
- All blog posts should be up on the blog ONE WEEK after final critique, reading assignment, proposal assignment or class activity/trip.
- Include work in progress, research and references to support your final projects.
- For final projects, include the artwork, artists names, a title, and a short description of the work – why did you choose to make it this way? What does it consist of? How did you complete it? How might it work in the gallery or other context?
- Note:
- You must have at least one final blog post for each project, and you will not receive a grade (or a grade with a significant reduction) if a post is missing. Rich evidence of engagement with course materials will increase your grades on your work.
REMINDER:
FRIDAY JAN 24th EXPERIMENTAL FIELD TRIP
9:30 AM to 6PM – Toronto Museums
Here is the eventbrite link for students to purchase tickets:
SCHEDULE and assignment:
Art Gallery of Ontario
https://ago.ca/exhibitions/culture-hip-hop-and-contemporary-art-21st-century
https://ago.ca/exhibitions/pacita-abad
The Power Plant
https://www.thepowerplant.org/whats-on
WEDNESDAY
Watch the Film: The Artist is Present
Watch the film: The Artist is Present, Marina Abramovic
“Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramovic has been redefining what art is for nearly 40 years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her limits and at times risking her life in the process she creates performances that challenge, shock, and move us.
This film follows Marina as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major new retrospective of her work, taking place at The Museum of Modern Art. To be given a retrospective at one of the world’s premier museums is the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina, it is far more: it is the chance to finally silence the question she has been hearing over and over again for four decades: But why is this art?”( From Film Summary)
Questions for discussion and blog post:
- What are some of your first impressions of Marina Abramovic’s performance works, based on the documentary? Use an image/example of one or two works to describe aspects you admire, and aspects you might agree are problematic?
- How would you answer the skeptical journalists when they express shock, confusion, and rejection of Abramovic’s work?
- What have you learned about features of performance art based on Abramovic’s work? Name a few key features according to her precedents. Include an image to illustrate. Consider her quote “When you perform it is a knife and your blood, when you act it is a fake knife and ketchup.”
- Discuss the ways performance art resists many museum and commercial artworld conventions. How does Abramovic solve/negotiate some of these challenges, and do you find these compromises add to, or undermine the ideas at play in her work?