MONDAY:
Introductions
Syllabus
Tour of lab and equipment
Class blog – invites, demo post
Lecture: TEXT Instructions for the world
Assign: Using Text as Art – Present one artist for discussion on Wednesday.
WEDNESDAY:
Present artists who use text (5 minutes each!)
Explore reading: Dirty Words: Tammer-El-Sheikh, from Canadian Art
Assign Banner exercise – due for discussion on blog on Monday next week.
Make your own GARLAND BANNER*
Explore the reading, Dirty Words by Tammer El Sheik from Canadian Art. Read for meaning, and read like an artist looking for text as material for a new work.
You will excerpt a fragment of text – in order – to create a banner, and hang it in a context that will expand/alter/transform its meaning.
Document your banner, and post an image of it with a project description on your blog page.
Consider how artists use conceptual strategies to use text in public/context-specific sites:
- Text that gives instructions to the public to act/think/etc.
- Text that speaks to the site, transforming perception of it
- Text that presents personal information in a public context
- Text that manipulates private feelings in public
- Text that goes against expectations of commercial messages in public
- Text that befuddles, beguiles, creates poetic insights
- Text that calls for activist/disruptive action
We will have some time in class to discuss options and use printing facillitites and materials.
Consider fonts, design, scale, and colours for your final banner.
*BANNERS DUE FOR DISCUSSION ON MONDAY NEXT WEEK! Post on your blog page.
