Nathan Thomas Wilson, Artist and Educator, Jaishri Abichandani, Artist, Founder of South Asian Women's Creative Collective
| Jan/09 | Mon | 01:00PM-05:00PM | W20-425, bring laptop and/or sketchbook |
| Jan/10 | Tue | 01:00PM-05:00PM | W20-425, bring laptop and/or sketchbook |
| Jan/11 | Wed | 01:00PM-05:00PM | W20-425, bring laptop and/or sketchbook |
| Jan/12 | Thu | 01:00PM-05:00PM | W20-425, bring laptop and/or sketchbook |
| Jan/13 | Fri | 01:00PM-05:00PM | W20-425, bring laptop and/or sketchbook |
| Jan/17 | Tue | 01:00PM-05:00PM | W20-425, bring laptop and/or sketchbook |
| Jan/18 | Wed | 01:00PM-05:00PM | W20-425, bring laptop and/or sketchbook |
| Jan/19 | Thu | 01:00PM-05:00PM | W20-425, bring laptop and/or sketchbook |
| Jan/20 | Fri | 01:00PM-05:00PM | W20-425, bring laptop and/or sketchbook |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: interest in sculpture and collaboration
Part contemporary theory seminar, part studio art class, this course will serve as an introduction to the politics of collaborative and social practices in contemporary visual arts. Class participants will organize artist collectives, and plan and execute site-specific sculptural installations informed by lectures and discussions. Each collective will address specific issues relevant to the wider community, with site-specific installation as their entry point. The installations will be rendered with the objective of igniting a critically self-reflexive dialog with an engaged community that encourages viewer participation. The collectives will be responsible for sourcing all installation materials. While participants are encouraged to use recycled and found materials, they may obtain materials by any means. Lectures by Jaishri Abichandani (founder, South Asian Women’s Creative Collective http://www.sawcc.org, New York and London) and Nathan Thomas Wilson (Co-founder, Kali Yuga Zoo Brigade artist collective, Philadelphia) will address the politics of authorship, place, commodification, art institutions, legibility of art, audience, and social interaction, as they relate to artistic practice in the context of late capitalism. Additionally, we’ll examine the parallels and discrepancies between contemporary collaborative art practices and MIT’s Hacking Culture.
For additional info and to sign up, visit:
http://arts.mit.edu/saa-classes/
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Student Art Association
Contact: Nathan Thomas Wilson, nathanthomaswilson@gmail.com