The course examines the different spatial world we live in and construct. Students explore the relationship between public and private spaces, sacred and profane, and the relationships of these experiences to the space of our bodies. The course investigates how we move from one spatial construct to another and how these constructs are inseparable from the nature of our existence. The course explores how our culture and society affect our conceptions and understanding of our spatial worlds. This course investigates the role of time in making and thinking about art.
Time is considered both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Students examine how and why we measure time as well as how time incarnates itself in the process of making work and how it affects the reception of the work. Students are asked to explore the temporal experiences enacted in our culture as well as historically. Temporal experiences are looked at to determine how we live in and think about time. For example, we will explore how changing temporal dimensions, from biological and natural to mechanical and digital, affect the way we think about and experience art and the world. Tangential to this investigation will be discussions that engage social, political and urban issues relevant to this expanded public context.