ART 250F Intro to Installation Art: Engaging With Spaces Around Us
Student will focus on seeing spaces as a catalyst for art and engaging with spaces through a variety of means. Over four weeks and through four projects, the course will look at installation art from a sculptural/formal perspective, from a video/new media/time-based perspective, from an ephemeral, performative, or social practice perspective, and from an historical or cultural perspective of a space itself.The course will include exposure to early and contemporary installation artists such as Richard Long, Eva Hesse, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Sarah Sze, Sarah Oppenheimer, Ann Hamilton, and Robert Gober, and students will have the opportunity to delve deeper into an artist's inspirations and concerns through a research presentation on an installation artist working anytime from 1945 to present day. We will also venture out to our Pine Lake campus and engage in site-specific work and exploration on the grounds. Suitable for non-majors. (EL)