March 19-24 “Appropriation Workshop”
Outcomes
- Enact a critical outlook as visual readers, recognizing how meaning is cultivated and perpetuated through representation.
- Produce ethical, informed, multi-dimensional, work that is situated in contemporary concerns.
- Identify the characteristics of medium towards the interpretation of an image, in order to make informed material choices for their own work.
Lecture
Appropriation Critique – As with the midterm, I will use this class to conduct a training critique for the students preparing them for Appropriation critiques online and in class next week.
Lab
Artist Workshop (45 minutes)
Please come up with ways to discuss appropriated moving artworks with your class. You can have them dissect work from lecture or links below, or other ways you can uncover this idea towards helping them think about appropriation in a more critical way. What ideologies and meanings do certain footage/artifacts carry? How have artists revealed these ideologies and made us question it? Please feel free to add art work suggestions in the post reply box!
Example Video Works:
- Candice Breitz Four Duets: Double Whitney 1999
- Candice Brietz Soliloquy Trilogy 2000
So much more Candice Brietz on Vimeo - Mishka Henner I’m not the only one 2015
- Oliver Laric 50/50 2007
- Aleesa Cohene Like, Like 2009
- Takeshi Murata Monster Movie 2005
- Scott Billings Good Bad Flat Round 2012
- Chris Bechman Oops 2011
- Angie Waller New Babylon 2004
- Abounaddara Kill Them! 2015
- Marco Brambilla Civilization 2008 (& others)
- Mishka Henner & David Oats Photographers
- Christian Marclay Surround Krack 2014/15
- Christian Marclay Telephones 1995
- Christian Marclay The Clock 2010
- Angie Waller The most boring places in the world 2008
- Douglas Gordon 24 Hour Psycho 1993
- Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait 2006
- Tons more Cory Arcangel beyond what I showed
- Tracey Moffat Love and Other
- Chris Marker – Stopover in Dubai
- Max Grau – Craving For Narrative
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Peer Review (45 minutes)
As in week 5, have the students look at one another’s works and give feedback.
Homework Reminders
- Draft projects need to be critiqued on ComPAIR by March 23.
- Final Projects are due next week!