Collecting as Artistic Practice
PROMPT
A collection can be performative, object-based, research based, or linguistic to name a few. How will you approach your collection? Will objects be presented with an institutional license, yet have some element of distortion or mockery? Is the collection an investigation of memory? Is it a safeguarding of things that are disappearing? Is the collection a written list of some kind? Is it documenting a quotidian setting, an homage to something or someone, or does it contain elements of fantasy or fiction? Curate or create a collection and discover the taxonomic formula you’re using.
PROJECT GUIDELINES
Work through a number of ideas and create some sketches of how you might approach them to share in class. You may need to create a sort of working prototype for this project. This will allow you to experiment with how you will construct your housing, display or performance, and consider different options. The size, material and method of creating or manipulating the collection is your choice. Perhaps this is an installation, a book, a video or photos showing documentation of a performance, artifacts that must be housed in some kind of container, a bass-relief wall piece, or a free-standing sculpture in-the-round. Be inventive! And remember to pace your work so you have ample time to amass your collection, experiment with possible ways of displaying and time to make the final work.
IN-PROGRESS CHECK-INS
2/06, 2/13
CRITIQUE
2/20
GRADING
40 points
10 Conceptual development, 10 Composition & design, 10 Craftsmanship, 10 Completion
A collection can be performative, object-based, research based, or linguistic to name a few. How will you approach your collection? Will objects be presented with an institutional license, yet have some element of distortion or mockery? Is the collection an investigation of memory? Is it a safeguarding of things that are disappearing? Is the collection a written list of some kind? Is it documenting a quotidian setting, an homage to something or someone, or does it contain elements of fantasy or fiction? Curate or create a collection and discover the taxonomic formula you’re using.
PROJECT GUIDELINES
Work through a number of ideas and create some sketches of how you might approach them to share in class. You may need to create a sort of working prototype for this project. This will allow you to experiment with how you will construct your housing, display or performance, and consider different options. The size, material and method of creating or manipulating the collection is your choice. Perhaps this is an installation, a book, a video or photos showing documentation of a performance, artifacts that must be housed in some kind of container, a bass-relief wall piece, or a free-standing sculpture in-the-round. Be inventive! And remember to pace your work so you have ample time to amass your collection, experiment with possible ways of displaying and time to make the final work.
IN-PROGRESS CHECK-INS
2/06, 2/13
CRITIQUE
2/20
GRADING
40 points
10 Conceptual development, 10 Composition & design, 10 Craftsmanship, 10 Completion