UHON 207 Fine Art as Global Perspective: Social Transformation through Art Spring 2020 Professor Jacobs Political Artists: Oral Presentation Due: See dates below. Your presentation date and artist will be listed on the course outline as well. With your partner, create a concise, 15 minute , oral/visual presentation on the artist you selected from the list below with an additional 5 minutes of class discussion/engagement. Looking at artists such as JR, Alfredo Jaar, and Juan Manuel Echavarria we will investigate how political art uses a range of materials and approaches to engage the viewer. Often, these contemporary artists draw upon contemporary issues and problems in their communities, using their art to address their political concerns publicly. The objective of this presentation is to evaluate your artist’s artwork and in particular their motivations, methodologies, and material usage. Further, the presentations will better acquaint you with the breadth of contemporary political art and aim to spark creative ideas for your future creative projects. Be sure to locate several sources on your scholar’s work. Ideally, you’ll be able to draw from the artist’s statements as well as assessment from scholars, curators and critics. Locating interviews with the artist would be helpful as well. Several of the artists are highlighted in interviews on PBS-Art21. Mirroring Lucy Luippard’s three-pronged evaluation of Andre Serrano’s Piss Christ, please use multiple lenses (formal, historical, expressionist, conceptual, etc.) to evaluate and frame your artist’s work. Part 1: Presentation will consist of: Provide an overview of the creative work. Showing background work in • order to frame the scope of the artist is fine, but focus primarily one body of work and unpack it by using the following prompts below: Provide context (e.g. cultural, historic, educational, demographic) on the • artist as relevant to the discussion at hand. What concepts are addressed in the work? I highly recommend that you • find one or more critical assessments (by a curator, critic, or an art historian, etc.) of your artist’s work. When was the work created? What was happening socially/politically • during the timeframe? Do those social or political issues inform the work? If so, how? What materials were used to create the work? Why? • What formal qualities are utilized? (denote and connote what you see) •
Part 2: Discussion leadership will consist of: Facilitation of class discussion that provides opportunities should include the following: 1. Lead a short discussion with the class in order to draw out the links between your artist and at least one of the theorists/scholars we’ve read. Does your artist approach their subject matter and/or the formal output of their work differently than the values outlined by your theorist? 2. Pose to the class what you think are the most profound questions that are generated from the work. Get us to talk! 3. If there are ways to get us to engage with approaches or materials that are unique to your artist that would warrant bonus points. Part 3: Professional & Technical Expectations: Please create your presentation on platform you choose (Powerpoint, • Prezi, Google Presentation, etc.). Have everything loaded 10 minutes before the start of class. If you go the online route please be sure to have your username and password ready. Please divide your time equally with your partner. • Go big or go home! Make sure your images are high quality so they don’t • look pixelated during the presentation. You can use http://images.google.com to look for higher quality/resolution images. You are encouraged to use still photography and video documentation in • the presentation. Be sure to practice the presentation and to have your timing down. I will • hold you to 15 minutes for your presentation and allot 5 additional minutes for discussion/engagement. Krzysztof Wodiczko public participatory Feb. 20 Candy Chang social engagement Feb. 20 Yes Men culture jamming Feb. 27 Rael San Fratello: public art Virginia San Fratello + Ronald Rael Apr. 9 Cannupa Hanska Luger social engagement Apr. 14 Ai Wei Wei political art Apr. 14 Jackie Sumell social practice activist Apr. 21 Kara Walker political art Apr. 21 Pedro Reyes social practice Apr. 28
Grading Rubric: (This presentation is worth 15% of your final grade) 60 pts How well does the presentation to meet the requirements? • (See #1 above) Did the presenters create teachable moments to get the class to • discuss and deeply understand the artwork and connect it with a theorist? (See #2 above) 20 pts Is the presentation insightful? Are new connections drawn? 10 pts • Is the presentation professional? Your self-evaluation and • peer evaluation will factor in to this section. 10 pts (See #3) TOTAL 100 pts
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