Course Description
This course will investigate the ways in which artists have presented narratives in the public realm and the organizations that have made the presentation of those works central to their curatorial practices over the last 40 years. Focusing on recent works presented in New York’s public spaces by Creative Time, The Public Art Fund, the Percent for Art Program, Arts for Transit and other non-profits organizations, this course will look at what it meant to tell stories and open discourses that challenged or interrogated widely-held value systems, the events and the politics of their time. In addition to the specifics of current and other key works and projects, we will discuss the conditions that governed the development of public performance, temporary and permanent installations, the ways in which those works were influenced by public approval processes and governmental agencies, media coverage and community response. Each student’s final project will be an on-line proposal for an exhibition that conveys a “narrative“ developed in the context of this course, referencing other relevant works .
New York is constantly finding new ways to be sustainable and energy efficient and there are always grants and scholarships available for this kind of work and so I would imagine that funding a project like this would be conceivable. I would like to see more ideas/renderings of the kid of work you intend to produce and how it directly correlates with the environment you are placing the piece in. How do you choose the artists who are conducting this work? It is a social experiment? How is it servicing the community?
ReplyDelete• I will suggest to relate a little bit more with social anxiety because it seems unclear what it the goal of this project.
ReplyDelete• I think the audience would be mostly tourists or people who just moved to the city. Not sure exactly how the project works.
I really like the concept of this project being based on maps. I do agree that as we become more addicted to digital information and digital interfaces, we lose our ability to navigate through physical space. It reminds me of how I am always surprised when I ride in a taxi in NY, which doesn't happen that often, at how it gives me a sense of real perspective of geographical locations of buildings and neighborhoods in the city. When you spend weeks underground on the Subway, you begin to lose a real sense of location of things above ground. I think this idea is similar to iPhones and such. So a project based on real maps in real space could be a profound project.
ReplyDeleteI think what could make this project stronger is just a clearer description of what exactly it is, because I've just read through it a couple of times and I still don't really know what it is. So is it a public sculpture or building that also acts as a map for restaurants, toilets, and public transportation? I think just a clearer statement, and perhaps more visual images that explain what exactly the intentions of this project are would help me understand it. Also, I think that the whole idea of putting up a map for restaurants, toilets, and buses seems like a huge lost opportunity. Those things are already more easily found on our phone. What are aspects of New York or of our physical world in general that CANNOT be mapped digitally? It seems to me that this is the most interesting part of this project. And I think greater exploration into this realm would help this project be truly awesome.