FIELD is a class that utilizes field trips to explore ideas of site, its meaning for those that live in the Los Angeles area past and future and especially for contemporary artists. This class cultivates the awareness of contextualization of site as investigation, enjoyment, source and responsibility within the metropolitan area of Los Angeles and welcomes the articulation and practice of all kinds of art media within student's art practice.
Through direct experience students will visit 5 distinct and geographically separate neighborhoods to learn about both their historical roles in the fabric of Los Angeles as well as the ways in which cultural capital is produced, shared within, and exported from these areas. Various modes of transport, Car, Metro, and walking, will be utilized to create physical, visual, spatial, spiritual, intellectual and sensual connections through the involvement with disparate modes of experience attained via daily migratory patterns.
Since "Field" is excursion oriented it meets for a full eight-hour day 9:00am-5:50pm weeks 1-9. Weeks 10-14 are independent investigations culminating in an exhibition at 870.