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.