Advanced SIS: Installation

Catalog description

This course explores a broad range of sculptural issues concerning the practice of Installation Art. This Studio course will primarily emphasize immersive environments (but not necessarily), given the circumstances of remote learning and one's bedroom as studio, or a similar venue, small and intimate may be more appropriate. Students expected to involve an ensemble of elements: objects, (found, purchased, reused, appropriated), made from an array of any kind of materials including natural materials; combined with time-based media; video, audio, performance, light etc. to create relationships within a particular space possibly as a 'site specific' venue in order to immerse the viewer within. Consider the notion of an immersive stage set, and the importance of documentation, 'Fabricated To Be Photographed, Video graphed, Digitally Imaged and/or Performed In.' Emphasis is on research about "place" and the proposal process for a specific context. Various artists, strategies, methods and materials will be investigated through projects, readings, lectures, visiting artists and discussions. Exercises and gestures are assigned initially, then students are expected to propose and establish their own projects/practice later in the semester.