ART-242: Social Practice 1

Social Practice 1 will look at the history and approaches artists are developing in using the real world as an expressive and ideological medium. The engagement in stories, conversations, and histories is how we make sense, how we remember, articulate/re-articulate, our experiences, memories, and fantasies. By talking with, collecting, recording, and engaging with others in the community, we become agents of change and transformation. In this class we will develop and work on projects that help us understand the roles of social narratives. We will also discuss films, video art, and contemporary film and art theory that explore the relationship of the self to the Other and embody a spirit of resistance. Radical forms will be used to investigate roles of gender, multi-culturism as well as positions of difference, opposition and empathy. Social Practice 1 is a fine art studio class.