2005 Residency Events
Initial List
Studio Workshops
Workshops are not intended to further technical virtuosity but to enhance creativity by exposing students to new approaches to working in various genres. It is recommended that students work with what they are technically familiar with for these sessions. Students should bring their own tools ie. cameras, powerbooks, sketch pads. Scanners, video projectors and printers will be available.
Non-degree summer workshop online application
Lynn Book
Voiced Body Laboratory
Interdisciplinary Artist Lynn Book has honed a philosophy and procedural practices concerning what she refers to as the “voiced body” - a deeply interactive state of being and becoming that sites the voice as embodied rather than as foot soldier to the cultural production of language. The lab will focus on hybrid processes that activate this “voiced body” in response to impulses and ideas that could be engendered by visual, textual, aural or sculptural means. A key orientation will be working with space as realized through emptiness, fullness, borders, skins and gaps. Through inquiry and performative processes we will look towards what it takes to create new approaches to organizing strategies for relationships between the material and immaterial, the concrete with the ephemeral, reinventing and recontextualizing Body and Voice vis-a-vis the participants current artistic practices. www.voicelabnyc.com
David Carson
Self-Indulgent Design
www.davidcarsondesign.com
Christopher Hewitt
Documentation as Concept, Theory and Practice: Performance, Photography, Video, Sound
This workshop explores the issues surrounding the use of documentation as a creative and integral part of the artistic process. As well as covering conventional forms of documentation - photography, video and sound - the workshop will also look at less obvious forms, including text, mapping, mythology and the documentary role of the audience. Applying the methodologies of performance art, the workshop will explore how any ephemeral artistic practice can be approached through documentation and, most importantly, how documentation can become an intrinsic part of the creative process in its own right.
www.liveartwork.com
Klaus Knoll
To See Is to Forget the Name of the Thing One Sees: Connections Between Visuals and Language
Connecting visual work to the more abstract structures of language. Visual vocabulary and transformational grammar: what constitutes a personal style? Influence and manipulation: captions, titles, contexts. Interspersed with short lectures, discussions, brief reading assignments and critiques, participants will create work throughout the workshop. Approaches include all visual media: photography, video, etc. Digital media are recommended for immediacy.
Seminars
MFA students only
Claire Daigle
The Fragmented Body in Contemporary Art
Each session of this seminar will be structured as a series of case studies focused on one or more body parts: hands, eyes, skin, breasts, etc. Concentrating on contemporary art, the approach will also include cross-cultural and interdisciplinary elements. Examples of possible thematic juxtapositions include legs by Robert Gober and Hans Bellmer (the fetish), pieces involving hair as material in the work of Mona Hatoum and women surrealists (the uncanny), or the film Fight Club and works by Dinos and Jake Chapman and Paul McCarthy (shock and sensationalism). Key areas of inquiry will be: what are the implications of parceling out the body? What symbolic investment is made in particular parts of the body in different cultural contexts? How is the hierarchy of the body viewed differently in specific historical moments (particularly our own)? What relationships do the various parts of the body have to identity, gender, politics, the senses, etc.? In the final sessions, the body will be reintegrated by drawing on the thematic threads that have emerged: the hybrid body, the body in pain, body and machine, the body in performance, and so on.
Johnny Golding
The Seven Deadly Erosions, Five Rehearsals and Four Vibrations (Untimely Meditations)
www.gre.ac.uk/~gs04
Lectures
MFA students and workshop participants
Johnny Golding
Twilight of the Beast
"...the corruption of linear time and the sexual/passion rawness that this may (or may not) unleash. it is in keeping with my old friend, nietzsche, and his 'twilight of the idols', where he attacks Religion Art and Philosophy with a capital r, a, p; mine is to attack certain forms of modernism, rigid forms of technology (and concomitant fears around technological domination) and move back to the future in the realm of the senses."
Christopher Hewitt
Contemporary Interdisciplinary Practice
This lecture looks at the art world's current interest in interdisciplinary practices such as process and project based work. I will examine the increasingly blurred line that exists between performance art, conceptual art and the visual arts and how the notion of ‘interdisciplinary practice' is currently being defined by young artists. The lecture presents examples of interdisciplinary practice by looking at the work of artists such as Mike Kelly (USA), Beaconsfield (UK), Xavier Le Roy (France/Germany), Superflex (Denmark), The Valie Export Fan Club (Estonia), Hanno Soans (Estonia) ROR Group (Finland), Eija-Liisa Ahtila (Finland), Bruce Gilchrist (UK), Guillermo Gómez-Penã (USA/Mexico) and others. The lecture will also attempt to present a historical context for the contemporary phenomena of interdisciplinary practice.
Wolfgang Sützl
After Cynicism. Art and Politics, Reloaded.
More and more the political will is encountering barriers which go by names like "practical constraint", "consequence of globalization" and the like. It seems as if to ask for the "what" in politics has become superfluous since politics is legitimized from the totality of technology. Legitimacy is thus becoming self referential (Cynicism). To what extent did electronic art manage to preserve a politically unrestricted space beyond practical constraints and cynical powers? Which resistances were encountered?