Class# 11 Followup: The Semiotics of Survival and next class JUNE 2 (no class memorial day may 26th!) meet at Socrates Sculpture Park

HW for next week: Finish your group banner and post your groups manifesto on all your blogs
Details: http://zegeer-introtoart.blogspot.com/2014/05/class-11-symbolizing-your-society-and-hw.html


Next Class (June 2), meet at 1:45 at Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd, Queens. 
http://socratessculpturepark.org/visit/directions-and-hours/

N train to broadway 
Q103 http://bustime.mta.info/#q103
Q104 http://bustime.mta.info/#q104
 bus to broadway and vernon blvd





For Online lecture and blog response, see below.





Lecture Followup Questions:

Describe which type of representation each image is below (Iconic, Symbolic, Indexical, or more than one?) and explain why :


1.

Holbein, Hans /Younger/ Sir Thomas More,  oil on canvas, 1527


2.

 Yves Klein, Anthropometry ANT 85, 1960. 155.5 x 352.5cm. 
(body prints of female models painted with his universal blue) 

3.

4.

Francesca Woodman,  35 mm Photograph

Class #11: Symbolizing your Society and HW

Class #11 Lecture
 


HW: Finish your Banner ! and Formal Manifesto


Meet up during the next two weeks to finish your banner !

also,

Collaborate with your group to formally write up your society's rules or manifesto. Write a short introduction headed by your society's chosen name, and a description of the world that you live in. Feel free to adopt a zany tone like the Futurists, be formal like the Declaration of Independence writers, or whatever mood fits your society.

Then write the agreed-upon rules, beliefs, or principles that you defined in class and used to construct your banner. If you wish to change some of these rules, do so by group consensus.

Then post your finished manifesto to each society-member's blog. Attach your banner if you've finished it.

Class #10 Followup: Collages and Manifesto

Folks,

For HW, finish your two collages and bring them into class next week, May 19th!

For your blog response, read the lecture and answer the question below:




Question (For those who attended class)
 Based upon the fictional society that you invented with your group on May 12th's class, write down some of the rules, laws, beliefs, codes, etc. that would be included in a manifesto for your post-apocalyptic community. The manifesto can be very practical ("There will be no stealing or the offending party will be exiled"), or totally absurd (see anything from the Futurist Manifesto).

If you did not attend class on the 12th and did not form a new end-of-the-world society in groups, your task is to write a personal manifesto, either one that represents your beliefs, style, vision of the world, or one that is completely absurd and makes crazy incorrect statements about you .  (also get filled in on the final project by watching the in-class lecture below. You will join one of the existing groups WHEN you come to class next week.

Extra Credit #4 : Museo del Barrio, MUSEUM STARTER KIT: Open With Care

Museo del Barrio, MUSEUM STARTER KIT: Open With Care
Suggested donation $5 for students
Hours:  Wednesday through Saturday from 11:00am to 6:00pm






Some quotes about the project from the website:

The cultural disenfranchisement I experience as a Puerto Rican has prompted me to seek a practical alternative to the orthodox museum, which fails to meet my needs for an authentic ethnic experience. To afford me and others the opportunity to establish living connections with my own culture, I founded El Museo del Barrio.-Raphael Montañez Ortiz

"To create a contemporary parallel to Montanez Ortiz’s open and generous vision, El Museo has invited a group of local artists from East Harlem to in turn invite the people of East Harlem to bring objects from their homes for display in the museum’s galleries. This reversal of expected museum exhibition practice underscores the museum’s commitment to creating connections with its audiences but also its interest in interrogating the role of the museum, the potential of the object and the human impulse to collect."

Answer these questions in essay form and post on you blog with documentation shots of your chosen works. 


1. What do you think about Raphael Montañez Ortiz's mission to represent the Puerto-Rican-American and East Harlem community in a museum space? How is this presentation of art different that the story of modern art presented at MOMA (museum of modern art)? 

2. Pick one artwork in the museum, describing it physically and how it was made. How do the materials and the process communicate something about the community, culture, or neighborhood of East Harlem? 

3. Pick one object or group of objects that was provided by the community (non-artists). Describe if physically. Why you think the individual chose these objects, and what it represents about about their culture or neighborhood history/

4. What do you think about this idea of asking the community to contribute objects that are important to them for the museum? Do you think that museum curation should be left to people with the training, should be totally crowd-sourced, or a combination of both? 


This is worth 2 blog posts and i missed class!

Extra Credit #3: Ai Weiwei at the Brooklyn Museum

Visit the Ai Weiwei Exhbition, "According to What?"
It will cost $10 with your Laguardia ID, or 15 without.

Hours: Monday, Tuesday Closed
Wednesday 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Thursday 11 a.m.–10 p.m.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
First Saturday of the month (except September)
Target First Saturdays: 5–11 p.m. 11 a.m.–11 p.m.


Find one work in the exhibition that intrigues you and spend at least 30 minutes with it, making notes about any physical details, ideas about what it means, how it was made, why the curator placed it where he/she did in the gallery, any random thoughts that come into your head.

Now in essay form, answer the following questions

1. Describe this work physically
2. What was the process of its making
3. What is the political significance of this piece (what message does it send to the chinese government or the Western art world)?
4. How does the material and the way the piece was made reinforce the politcal message (think about who actually made the work. Did the artist? Hired crastmen?)?
5. What other random thoughts and discoveries did you have while observing this work for a prolonged period.

The post your answers along with some documentation photos. One of these photos should prove that you were actually there...

Once again, this will make up for 2 missed blog posts and one class absence, so do a good job!

Class #9 Followup: Survival

Look at previous post for the HW Assignment. Please watch the below and answer the blog response to prove you "attended" our online portion of class.



1. Write a short paragraph response describing which of the lecture artist's interpretation of escaping, advancing, or repairing society you most agree with, and why.

Class #9: Ai Weiwei and Interventions

Here's the in-class presentation. We watched the 50-minute BBC doc on Ai Weiwei, called, "Without Fear or Favor", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcRodOfu_s8

Homework Below...


HW: Create a Public intervention!

For your HW assignment for next week, I’d like you to plan out a public “Intervention”, and enact it at some point this week, and create suitable documentation to record the intervention.

That intervention must happen in the public space (park, street, work, store, classroom, library, etc.).

It can either focus on an object that you bring into that setting, objects found in that setting that you rearrange, or some simple performance or performance-centered gesture that you make.

-Don’t just repeat an intervention that you saw in class. Think of your own.

--Don’t do anything illegal. Don’t do anything that will get you in trouble.

-It doesnt have to be political. It doesn’t even have to draw attention.  

For class next week, post a description of your intervention and documentation photos on your blog.