Thursday:
Introductions
Syllabus
Tour of lab and equipment
Class blog – invites, demo post
Lecture: Intro to Conceptual Art
ASSIGNMENT: Make a KILOMETRE*
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Bring in a KILOMETRE next week.
Document a kilometre. Walk it. Sculpt it. Talk it. Write it. Draw it. Video record it. Perform it. Get your mom to perform it. Conjure a kilometre in any media.
It could be a walk down the street, a path down an intestine, a line going up into the air, a kilometre’s worth of rocks. It can be a kilometre made of chewing gum. Made of telephone conversations. Made of complaints. Made of a walk with a cat. Made with light. It can be a distance between two points. It can be imagined, traced, documented, listed, performed, evidenced on the bottom of your shoe, rolled up into a ball.
Make sure to measure your kilometre in some way, and be prepared to discuss your process, and justify how it is precisely a kilometre. Consider your materials, and just how your specific kilometre gives us a new way to think about or experience this abstract concept of measurement.
You have up to 5 minutes next week to present your kilometre to the class.
Bring it, or show us documentation of it.
IT MUST BE PRECISELY A KILOMETRE – EXPLAIN HOW YOU KNOW IT IS ONE.
All kilometres are due for discussion on Thursday Sept. 14 next week.