Introductions

Tech orientation to studio, blogs, and equipment

Assignment: Book Stacks (After Nina Katchadourian)

Demo on using cameras/phones at home for shooting/high res.

Demo on using home lighting

MONDAY:

Tattoo design and printing on tattoo paper demo

Sample works inspired by Micah Lexier

WEDNESDAY:

Research proposals, discussion and development

Designing and printing

Come to the SHENKMAN LECTURE AND MFA OPEN STUDIOS!

Monday:

Lecture: Artist Tattoos

Tatoos in Contemporary Art

Assignment: Artist Tattoos

ASSIGNMENT: Make an Artist Tattoo

RECOMMENDED MEDIA: Tattoo transfer, drawing for the body, performance, video

Due: See schedule for details

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Human beings have been tattooing themselves for thousands of years. For religious and spiritual reasons, for beautification, remembrance, for rites of passage, for sex, as expressions of identity and belonging; of protest, of love and sometimes – of possession and hate.

Artists have explored many of these ideas in artist-tattoo projects, utilizing self-conscious, and conceptual strategies in designing and applying tattoos. The resulting works are sometimes surprising, provocative or difficult, funny, or emotionally moving.

Students will create a tattoo piece. You can use the transfer paper or other print and drawing techniques to make one, or multiple tattoos. You can also consider ways to present your work – on a body, in a performance, or in a video. Finish your tattoo somehow – to present to the class and on the blog as a finished artwork.

**** While your work may be a proposal and sample of a permanent tattoo, I would recommend you do NOT apply a real permanent tattoo/mark on yourself or others to complete this assignment. After critiques you are free to do what you like with your own body – but for class, you will not make a permanent body alteration, please.

Consider artist tattoos by:

Jana Sterbak

Douglas Gordon

Catherine Opie

John Murchie

Shannon Gerard

Artur Zmijewski

Michelle Lacombe

David Shrigley

Jordan Bennett

Santiago Sierra

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

Students will document finished works for addition to the blog. Include a title, a short description and one to two images or video of your work.

Works must be posted on the blog ONE WEEK after final class –  with a title and description to receive a final grade.

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Prep for in class exercise on Wednesday – SHOW US YOUR TATTOOS

Wednesday:

Complete late critiques for Parents Video – LAST CHANCE

All updated blog posts for Parent’s videos will be due next week on MONDAY.

In-class exercise – Make a collective video montage of community tattoos called:

SHOW US YOUR TATTOOS

Monday:

Critique of Parents Video

Wednesday:

Critique of Parents Video

Time to revise and improve videos, update blog descriptions

Visit to AGG

Monday:

Critique of Parents Videos

Wednesday:

Complete critique of Parents Videos

Revise and post videos with description on the blog

Visit to the AGG

1. Catch up on late critiques for Post-Internet Videos

2. Film: Sarah Polley, The Stories We Tell

https://www-nfb-ca.subzero.lib.uoguelph.ca/film/stories_we_tell/?ctlgsrc=mr

Lecture: Parents Video

VIDEO ART ABOUT OUR PARENTS:

Assignment:

Make VIDEO ART involving your PARENTS*

Videos may be up to 10 minutes MAX. They may include original and/or found footage.

Ideas and work in progress must be discussed in class before critiques.  See schedule for details.

Consider your parents. You may choose to work with one or many of the individuals that are your parents.

*This does not have to literally be your mother or father – you may work with the idea of parents, with remembered parents, with other people’s parents, with dream parents. Interpret this theme as widely as needed. You may also be a parent – and want to explore what the role means to you – and work with your children. It’s up to you.

Who are your parents? What are the quirks that distinguish them? What is your relationship with them like? What are their relationships like with others? What are they into? Who were they in the past vs. the present? What are their strengths and their weaknesses? Do they understand what you do? Do you understand what they do? Think about what you want to discover, or bring out about your parents, and/or your relationships. Think about something really unlikely for your parents to do. How do the attributes and concerns about your parents reflect truths about you or your family, or about a wider world?

You may consider*:

Interviews

Voice-overs

Using still photographs

Truth vs Fiction

Documentary style observation

Use of sound/music/dancing

Taking your parents by surprise

Instructions for parents to perform

Task for you to perform with your parents

Performances by non-actors

Working remotely with parents

Absence of parents

Past vs. Present

Using found video/film/audio

Artists:

Michelle Pearson Clarke

Basil Alizeri

Janine Antoni

Gillian Wearing

Jim Verburg

Lyla Rye

Evergon

Sarah Polley

Patty Chang

Aleesa Cohene

Steve Reinke

Aislinn Thomas

Mona Hatoum

Lee Walton

Rajnar Kartansson

Adad Hannah

Sheilagh Restack

Lenka Clayton

*Reminder: Always create works that are safe and respectful for you and others at all times. Discuss your ideas with the instructor.

Demo: Camera recording and lighting in the field

Reminder: Field Trip on Wednesday! See you in Toronto!