Category: Extended Practices

  • Contemporary Art

    Everything is Interesting, Kelly Mark, 2003.

  • What is Experimental Studio?

    Performance Art/Sound Art

    Yoko Ono

    Click this link to see the courses required in Studio Art

     

    Yoko Ono responding to the win of Donald Trump in the 2016 election:

    https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/305733-yoko-ono-response-to-trumps-win-a-primal-scream

     

    Conceptual Art/Text as Art

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    Performance Art

    Performance/Social Practice Art

    Yoko Ono’s Wish Trees

    “As a child in Japan, I used to go to a temple and write out a wish on a piece of thin
    paper and tie it around the branch of a tree. Trees in temple courtyards were always
    filled with people’s wish knots, which looked like white flowers blossoming from afar.”
    Yoko Ono: “All My Works Are A Form Of Wishing”.

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    Make your own Yoko Ono Wish Tree: http://imaginepeacetower.com/yoko-onos-wish-trees/

    You will need: Tree, pencils, Wish Tags.

    Wish Trees are traditionally native, local and indigenous.
    Olive, Apple, Pomegranate, Ficus, Birch, and Juniper trees are all popular choices.

    For Wish Tags you could use paper and string, or pre-strung white shipping tags.

    Download and add the IMAGINE PEACE sign
    Download and add the WISH TREE instruction

    That’s it!

    When the tree is full of wishes: 
    email us
    a photo and tell us your story
    mail all the wishes to IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, PO Box 1009, 121 Reykjavik, Iceland.

     

    Public Interventions/Text as Art

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    John Baldessari

    John Baldessari was born in National City, California in 1931. He attended San Diego State University and did post-graduate work at Otis Art Institute, Chouinard Art Institute and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA from 1970 – 1988 and the University of California at Los Angeles from 1996 – 2007

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    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, 1971

     

    Nihilist Celebration

    student work by Shay 2018

    Performance Art/Video Art

    Performance Art:

    Camille Turner

    VSVSVS

    See samples of artists works from the Extended Practices 3/4 Blog

    Tatoos as Art:

    Watch Tattoos,

     Leo Zhuoran 2019

    As a child, my friends and I used to draw watches on each other’s wrist for fun. Back in the days, a ball point pen is not easy to find for us since everyone uses pencil and only adult and older children can use a pen. To share a ball point pen that was hard to find and draw different watches on each others wrist was a simple mark of friendship. To recreate this childhood memory, I asked my classmates to draw each other a wrist watch with their own design and photographed it then translated it into a printable design. I then printed these “watches” on temporary tattoo paper and shared it with the class.

     

    Skin Swatch

    This temporary tattoo is pulled directly from the artist’s arm and calls into question the practice of comparing one’s skin colour to others.

    Freckled

    These temporary tattoos form matching freckle patterns meant to be worn in the same spot by two people. They create a connection between two bodies through adornment that looks like it could be real.

    Embrace

    Embrace is a tattoo which only becomes complete with an action. This action is a warm embrace and creates a perfect circle. When the tattoo is not in action it is an incomplete line that starts in the middle of the forearm and ends at the tip of the index finger. It’s functional for both people, open up your circle and get hugged. In this circle is a safe space.

    Sarah Hernandez, Embrace, 2019

    Video Art:

    Ragnar Kjartansson

    Lee Walton

    Fiona Tan

    Social Practices Art:

    Choir! Choir! Choir!

    Conflict Kitchen

    Carmen Papalia

    Special Topics and links to course blogs:

    Stupidity

    Outdoor School

    Houseplant Vacation : Machine Project

    Andrea Zittel – Wagon Station Encampment

    Nina Katchadourian: Collaborations with nature

    Experimental Students on the Farm:

     

    Fastwurms on the Farm

    Fastwurms on the farm – Raku firing, flaming skulls and other dangerous magic

    Raft of the Medusa

    The farm team re-enacts the Raft of the Medusa by Gericault, on the platform /Multi-use room made possible by an anonymous donor.

     

    The Raft of the Medusa, a major work in French 19th-century painting—is generally regarded as an icon of Romanticism. It depicts an event whose human and political aspects greatly interested Géricault: the wreck of a French frigate off the coast of Senegal in 1816, with over 150 soldiers on board.

     

    Students spontaneously re-enacting the The Raft, in OUTDOOR SCHOOL 2019, on the Multi-use room made possible by an anonymous donor.