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first term collaborative
project pics now online
And so the arts are encroaching one upon another,
and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the
art that is truly monumental." Wassily
Kandinsky
...Social Sculpture--how
we mold and shape the world in which we live: SCULPTURE AS AN
EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; EVERYONE IS AN ARTIST...All around us the
fundamentals of life are crying out to be shaped, or created. -- Joseph Beuys
Free your mind and your
art will follow.
-- M. Dolinsky
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Course Description and Objectives +
This introductory course is designed to acquaint you with aspects of
the fine, performing and new media arts from an interdisciplinary
perspective. Organized thematically, the course will offer you an
opportunity to explore various relationships between these arts,
their relationships to disciplines which have traditionally been
situated beyond their borders, and to consider the circumstances
which shaped them--whether social, political, economic, and/or cultural.
We will also reflect on how contemporary culture and its theoretical
positions condition the way(s) in which we respond to and interpret
these relationships today. Finally, we will evaluate the extent to
which an interdisciplinary perspective can enrich our study of the
arts. Over the course of the year, we will work together to formulate
probing questions and to think critically about those questions.
You will be encouraged to express your views in your own voice, verbally,
through the written word, and in the studio. The course is not designed
as a contest between the disciplines nor does it attempt to survey
the history of each discipline represented in the Faculty of Fine
Arts on an individual basis. Instead, its primary aim is to investigate
some of the ways in which the fine, performing and new media arts
might be linked, and to explore a wide-ranging set of ideas that
students can use to gain new insights into their own artistic practices.
Summary of Objectives
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To think beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries between the
fine and performing arts
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To consider the various ways in which interdisciplinary practice in
the fine and performing arts might be defined
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To contextualize the disciplines which you are most familiar with or
interested in within a wider cultural frame of reference
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To begin developing a language to describe the practice and experience
of the arts
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To think critically and creatively about material with an open mind,
and to acknowledge that not all questions can be answered definitively
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To exercise your own voice
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