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Grand Finale Showcase!

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December 5th – Grand Finale Showcase!

In 3rd floor of Audain, 3:30-5pm (but please come in a bit earlier if you need to set up your piece)

Open house grand finale party to celebrate the end of your partnerships with the community partners. You will present your creative response work (maximum 3-minute presentation unless other arrangements) to the class and partners.

Final Reminders of Due Dates

Creative Response Presentations due today in class for presentation
CBEL Project Synopsis (Hardcopy) due today, or CBEL Project Synopsis blog due December 6th
Final Reflection and Peer Evaluation due December 8th

Week 7

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October 30th – Art & Activism Part 2

Discussion on antagonism, ethics and activism’s role in contemporary artistic practice. Reading discussions will inform a reflective group activity in the second half.  We will finish this class with a small lecture on description of the Creative Response project due for the final class, and other due dates.

Required Reading/Discussion On
  • Claire Bishop Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics in October 110, Fall 2004. 51-79
    (Link available through Connect to UBC Library)
Further Resources
  • Marcus Steinweg Art between Affirmation and Critique in Scandalous: A Reader on Art and Ethics p.169-175
  • Boris Groys On Art Activism from e-flux (Available here)
  • Chantal Mouffe Artistic Activism and Agonistic Spaces Art&Research 2007
  • Mick Wilson Autonomy, Agonism, and Activist Art: An Interview with Grant Kester from Art Journal 2006
  • Nicolas Bourriaud Excerpt from Relational Aesthetics (Presses du Réel, 1998, trans. 2002)
Homework
  • Creative Response for CBEL project due December 4th
  • CBEL Project synopsis due December 6th on partnership blogs, or if you opt for the written synopsis, a hard copy is due December 4th
  • CBEL Final Reflection Journal (online in Connect Journal) by 11:59pm December 8th
  • Self and Peer Evaluations (if in a pair) due by 11:59pm, December 8th
Reminder

Studio visits next week! (Meet in Audain please)

Week 6

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October 23rd – Art & Activism Part 1

Video screening of Renzo Martens “Enjoy Poverty”

Readings
Homework
  • Readings for “Art and Activism” due for discussion next week, in relation to this week’s screening.
  • If you miss the screening on class, you are expected to watch the video on your own time before next class.

Week 8

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November 6th – Peer Studio Visits

Today we will be conducting peer ‘visits’ or interviews.
Please prepare work or a portfolio for visitors to look at and for you to be able to look at your colleague’s work.

Activity

Studio Visits (will be assigned in class)

Homework
  • Reflection on studio visits and other art events analysis due November 27th.
  • Readings on “The Artist’s Labour” and ready for discussion next week.
Relevant Preparation

Must be ready to visit and be visited, can include an artist statement, should have work, etc…  Questions and preparation for being a studio visitor.  Please meet in Audain, 3rd floor, for the start of class.

Week 10

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November 27th – Final Thoughts

Reminders on final expectations of the class, today we will reflect on our experiences an knowledge share insights. As well, we will conclude our envelope activity.

Final Due Dates
  • Creative Response for CBEL project due December 4th
  • CBEL Project synopsis or partnership (hardcopy) due December 4th  or partnership blog due December 6th
  • Self and Peer Evaluation (survey) due by midnight December 8th
  • CBEL Final Reflection (online in Connect Journal) by midnight December 8th

Week 9

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November 20th – The Artist’s Labour

Today Steven Cottingham will be substituting for this specific class. Reading discussion on artist’s labour (and other cultural roles).

Discussion On

(To be confirmed with Steven)

  • Pascal Gielen The Art Scene. A Clever Working Model for Economic Exploitation? from Open 17:  A Precarious Existence, Vulnerability in the Public Domain
  • Claire Fontaine Human Strike has Already Begun in Human Strike Has Already Begun & Other Writings29-33 (Download available here )

Upcoming Deadlines

Studio & Events Analysis Due by 9am Monday November 27th in Connect

Week 5

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October 16th – Poster Presentations

You will all be presenting on your partnership institution or partnered artist in class in a poster presentation format. Please give the class an understanding of the history, structure, mandate, exhibition models, artists associated, publications, events, etc… of the gallery or artist. The presentations will take place in two sets, and you will visit each other to communicate about your space and experiences. At the end of the class you will have time to discuss what each gallery’s role and what it means to the Vancouver Art community.

Activity

  • Reflection, what did you learn, what was revealed, what stood out, and a pop quiz!
  • The last half hour will be used to discuss the upcoming screening and next two classes.

Week 4

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October 2nd – The Artist’s Studio

Discussion on the role and purpose of the artist’s studio and how it relates to your/a practice.

Required Reading/Discussion On:
  • Daniel Buren Function of the Studio in Museums by artists p.61-67
  • Rebecca Fortnum Creative Accounting: Not Knowing in Talking and Making from On Not Knowing: How Artists Think 70-87
Further Resources:
  • Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson Art in the Making Artists and their Materials: From Studio to Crowdsourcing 2016
  • Caitlin Jones The Function of the Studio (When the Studio is a Laptop) from STUDIO, p.116-121
  • Mary Jane Jacobs and Michelle Grabner The Studio Reader
  • Edited by Jens Hoffman STUDIO (From Whitechapel’s Documents of Contemporary Art series)
  • Twyla Tharp The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use it for Life
Homework
  • Prepare for being visited and conducting a studio visit for November 6th with peers in the class. Prepare and have work ready to show, can be in process/sketch and have language/writing or previous work for context.  Prepare to view colleague’s work in a critical and rigorous lens, have questions ready, etc.
  • By the end of this term you are to have attended 3 art events either at the University or in the city, one of those events must be with a partnership in this class.  An analysis on the studio visit experience and the events you attended is due November 27th.
Upcoming Due Dates

Poster Presentations for next class, including blog summary & poster upload.

Week 3

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September 25th – Galleries and Institutions

In-class discussion on readings of ARC’s, commercial art galleries, biennale’s, fairs, and other international art events and how it affects the type of art produced and the role of artistic practice.

Required Reading/Discussion On
  • Gabriele Detterer The Spirit and Culture of Artist-Run Spaces in Artist Run Spaces:  Nonprofit Collective Organizations in the 1960s and 1970s p.10-49
  • Michael Turner Whose Business Is It? Vancouver’s Commercial Galleries and the Production of Art in Vancouver Art & Economies p.205-218
Extra Resources
  • A Bronson The Humiliation of the Bureaucrat:  Artist-Run Centres as Museums by Artists first from Museums by artists (Available here)
  • AA Bronson The Transfiguration of the Bureaucrat in Institutions by Artists (Available here)
  • Keith Wallace Artist-Run Centres in Vancouver:  A Reflection on Three Texts in Institutions by Artists
  • Sarah Thornton The Fair in Seven Days in the Art World  76-104 (this whole books is really fun!)
  • Jan Verwoert The Curious Case of Biennial Art in Filipovic, Van Hal, Ovstebo The Biennial Reader
  • Okwui Enwezor Mega-Exhibitions and the Antinomies of the Transnational Global Form in Filipovic, Van Hal, Ovstebo The Biennial Reader
  • Gerardo Mosquera Beyond Anthropophagy: Art, Internationaization, and Cultural Dynamics in The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds
  • Sara Giannini J’est un autre: Notes on Cannibalism and Contemporary Art from The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds
Lecture

On art Events, Global and Local, including Fairs, Biennale’s, etc….

In-Class Reflection Activity
  • Intro to reflection & meeting with the partner – how did it go?
  • Personal and Group Shareback – Articulate Learning
Homework
  • For October 16th, please prepare and print a poster for display that describes your partner; include the mission, history, structure, programming, and other details for the purpose of knowledge sharing with your classmates. As well, a blog submission on your institution/artist with a summary, and include a smaller version of your poster (pdf or jpg) on your blog for classmates to download.
  • Readings on “The Artist’s Studio” due for next week’s reading discussion.
Upcoming Work

Please have a project outline posted on your blog by 9am October 2nd (let me know if you need an extension), and remember your readings for next week!

Week 2

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September 18th, 2017 – Role of the Artist

Reading discussion on the assigned readings, and overall approach of the artist’s role in society. Final part of the class will be a lecture on the different types of gallery systems and events.

Required Reading/Discussion On
  • Ann Hamilton Making Not Knowing from Learning Mind: Experience Into Art p.66-73
  • Excerpts from AKADEMIE X: Lessons in Art + Life 2015
Further Resources
  • James Elkins (Ed) What do Artists Know? 2012
  • Michael Schwab (Ed) Experimental Systems: Future Knowledge in Artistic Research 2013
  • Estelle Barrett Experiential Learning in practice as research: context, method, knowledge from Journal of Visual Art Practice, Volume 6 Number 2, 2007 p.115-123
  • Janet Eyler Creating Your Reflection Map from New Directions for Higher Education114, Summer 2001 p.35-43
Activities
  • Personal Values Inventory
  • Reflection on Anticipation
  • Secret Envelope Exercise
Lecture

Gallery systems and types, focusing on Vancouver’s art community, to aid in readings for next week discussions.

Homework
  • You are to come up with three goals for yourself in regards to the project to be posted in your Connect Journal due September 25th (before class, by 9am).
  • Create an outline/plan for your partnership. If you are working with another student on the same project, you will show how you will work on this together, and should be consulting on how the work will be divided as well as articulating how and why. Notify me if you need an extension as not all projects will be at this point just yet.  This is due October 2nd on UBC blogs.  In order for your posts to connect to your partnership, you must “categorize” your post in WordPress with the category of your partnership.
  • Readings on “Galleries” due next week for in class discussion.
Upcoming Due Dates

Please try to have your first meeting with your partner by September 22nd, notify me if you cannot.  Journal “Goals” due by September 25th, 9am.

Remember your readings for next week!