MIAD
Painting: Peter
Barrickman
Sculpture: Will
Pergl
Writing Workshop:
Digging Deeper
Guest: Kiki
Anderson
Wednesday, 31
August
In this workshop, we will pursue questions about the objects, experiences, places, and media that students address in their work. Through short related readings, timed free writing, and discussions, we hope to aid students as they further develop the forms and content of their current projects, while also shedding light on or reminding them of some of the main themes that run through the body of their work.
Sandbox at Passaic, the town where Smithson was born
I. Physical
objects of interest and their forms
Describe
an object of interest you use in your work.
Why
does this form interest you?
What
are some of the associations a person might make when they confront
this object?
What
might this object's form resemble?
How
can these associations enrich the meaning of your work?
"...the
artist seeks.... the fiction that reality will sooner or later
imitate."
Robert Smithson from "A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art," 1968
Robert Smithson from "A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art," 1968
Related
readings I:
Robert Smithson,
“A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey” in Blasted
Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists,
ed. Brian Wallis (New
York, NY: The New Museum of Contemporary Art and Cambridge, MA: The
MIT Press, 1989), 79-81 [originally appeared as
“The
Monuments of Passaic,” Artforum
6, no. 4 (December 1967), 48-51]
Orhan
Pamuk, The Innocence of
Objects
(New York: Abrams, 2012), 60-61, 76-77, 82-83
Orhan Pamuk at The Museum of Innocence, which opened in 2012. His novel with the same name was published in 2008.
Exterior of The Museum of Innocence in Istanbul
II.
An experience/place and its atmosphere
Write about a
time and place that you evoke in your work.
Why is this so
powerful or useful?
What do people
usually do at that hour of the day or in that location?
What are some
activities that people almost never do then and there? What if they
did?
How does the
time and place interact with the key objects and forms in your work?
Everyone is
asleep
There is
nothing to come between
the moon and
me.
Enomoto Seifu-Jo
in Written on the Sky: Poems from the
Japanese, trans. Kenneth Rexroth
(New York: New Directions, 2009), 18
Related
reading II:
Ibid. 19, 29,
40, 41
III. Books,
music, bands, films, podcasts, video games, etc.
What was the
last movie you saw and really liked? How would you summarize it in
one sentence? What do you like about the movie (set/actors/storyline,
etc.)?
Do you listen to
music when you create work? Why or why not? Do you play music? What
are some of your favorite bands? Who are some of your favorite
musicians?
What kinds of
mass culture consciously inform your work? Do you consider this part
of your personal history? Why or why not?
Related
readings III:
Slavoj
Ẑiẑek,
Looking
Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture
(Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991) 97-99
Marjane
Satrapi, Chicken
with Plums
(New York: Pantheon Books, 2006), 16-19
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