Graduate Critique Seminar 1

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This seminar is dedicated to the discussion of theoretical texts to be explored in relation to the student’s developing research- based art practice. Students will be introduced to a diverse range of writers that have informed contemporary art practices, including questions of representation, materiality, memory, our relation to objects and questions posed by writers on the characteristics of our late capitalist condition. What do this mean for art making today? How do artists position themselves and make work in world which increasingly dominated by politics of aesthetics and speed in the consumption of images in which art works require different temporality of contemplation and haptic experiences. Students will be required to critically engage with readings and explore their relevancy to their own art practice, through presentations, weekly journal entries, the development of an annotated bibliography and a final research paper. Students will have the opportunity to understand concerns and practices of local and regional artists and institutions and how this may inform their own practices and research.