ART 329 - Spatial Engagement — Context, Power & Placement, Installation a Lens for All Matters

Spatial Engagement- Context, Power & Placement, encourages the production and contemplation of all kinds of aesthetic meaning through the lens of Installation. This course is focused more closely on the unraveling of Installation Art into an idea of contemporary public exchange of art and meaning. This class is off the wall, and into the complexity of art’s multifaceted and ever-changing spatial relationships. Students will be expected to think about their work or research as immersive, experiential, and located in space. We will also look at dominant contemporary artists, what they show to compete, and various prominent art exhibition networks to include spectacle works or mega installations, the roll of art fairs, as well as other 21st century exhibition dynamics in contemporary art. Art 329 is smaller in scale in terms of workload and requirements than fall semester and is a 2 unit class. A consistent thread through both courses are social politics. We take up the multiple histories within intersectional discourse on race, gender, and sexuality in our global culture as it relates to course material. This is predominantly a critique class where we will use different analytical frameworks and topics to address the works we encounter. There are 2 requirements outside of the recommended reading¬–one presentation and one installation.
Units: 2
Course Type: Seminar