CMU School of Art


This page is updated weekly with projects and assignments.

WEEK 3

9/10
Due: Project 1 documentation, Project 1 reflection statement

9/12
Due: Ideas / sketches for Project 2
individual meetings, work time

Homework:
Proposal / Prototype for Project 2 due Tuesday 9/17
Project 2 description is here

Optional Reading / References:

Claire Bishop, Antagonism & Relational Aesthetics: http://www.teamgal.com/production/1701/SS04October.pdf

Alan Kaprow, The Education of the Unartist part 1 : http://www.ubu.com/papers/kaprow_education_of_the_un_artist_pt_1.pdf
Part 2: http://www.ubu.com/papers/kaprow_the_education_of_the_un_artist_pt_2.pdf Lenka Clayton and Jon Rubin's Circle: https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/lenka-clayton-and-jon-rubin-circle-through-new-york

Theaster Gates in Chicago: https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s8/theaster-gates-in-chicago-segment/

Niki De Saint Phalle's Tarot Garden in the New Yorker 2016: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/18/niki-de-saint-phalles-tarot-garden

Stan Douglas' Circa 1948 : https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/apr/22/stan-douglas-vancouver-circa-film-new-york

Stan Douglas Art 21: https://art21.org/artist/stan-douglas/

Claire Bishop, Introduction: Installation Art & Experience, at least to page 14
http://www.acastronovo.com/ClassHtms/ClassDocs/Bishop001.pdf

2007 Roberta Smith Review of Unmonumental: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/arts/design/30newm.html

Richard Serra's Tilted Arc on NPR in 1985: https://www.wnyc.org/story/richard-serras-tilted-arc/

Richard Serra's Tilted Arc brief description / reading: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/visualarts/tiltedarc_a.html

WEEK 2

9/5
Due: Project 1 Time Constraint Sculpture, group critique

WEEKEND HOMEWORK:
Due Monday - Project 1 documentation, Project 1 reflection statement - POSTED TO THE BLOG

Reading:
Rosalind Krauss, Sculpture in the expanded Field:
https://monoskop.org/images/b/bf/Krauss_Rosalind_1979_Sculpture_in_the_Expanded_Field.pdf

Your documentation should consist of more than one good, well-lit photograph of your work installed, ideally from multiple angles, both up close details and a mid-distance shot. If it needs to be "activated" or there is a performance, documentation should include this as well. In that case, I would recommend both photo and video, but at least photo. Documentation should be accompanied by the work's title, materials, and brief description

Your reflection statement should be at the least one paragraph, and at the most 1-2 pages, with a reflective description of your work, remarking on your process, how you felt about this, and your response to the finish work and your peers' critique. Consider these questions: What is the piece? What meaning did you intend to convey through the work? Was this "successfuly" conveyed? How did your peers read this work? Were new meanings understood through the process of critique, and did your peers have creative readings of the work you would not have predicted? How did you feel about this? How could the project have been changed to better convey your idea ? What was your process? What materials did you use? How did you feel about these? What was interested to you about this assignment, what was not? How could you scale this work up or change it if you had more time?

9/3
Due: Artist’s statement, goals and expectations, reading list
Individual meetings, share reading lists, work time on Project 1

WEEK 1

THURS 8/29
Due: giant idea list, giant title list
we will have individual meetings, review idea lists, share favorites from title list, discuss reading
By end of class: should have narrowed list with sketches and plans!
Work time for Project 1

Due Tues 9/ 3: Artist’s statement, goals, "bibliography"

What do I mean?

Give an artist's statement your best shot, we will be developing this throughout the semester, and we will discuss after project 1 how to edit our statements and what they should or could consist of.

Begin building some statements about the goals you have for this semester.

And finally, begin a bibliography. This is a list of all influential texts, references, media, artists, images, movies, LINKS, hyperlinks are great, anything! This should also include a category of references you still need to check out, things you haven't yet read, things you need to look at or tutorials you want to take, etc.
Finish any of the reading from Tuesday you didn't get to.

TUES 8/27
Homework:
Brainstorm for 2 week sculpture, due 9/5, see description here
DUE THURS: giant idea list, giant title list

bioraft safety training : Student Shop Safety, Hand and Power Tool Safety Traning, Compressed Gas and Toxic Gas Procedures, Laser Cutter Safety
^ I recommend finishing by next week

Reading:
Tommy Lannigan-Schmidt interview: https://www.artforum.com/interviews/thomas-lanigan-schmidt-remembers-stonewall-80155

Fischli & Weiss Accidental Beauties: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/03/08/fischli-weiss-guggenheim-accidental-beauties/

Sarah Lucas: https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/sarah-lucas-2/

Or this on Sarah Lucas: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/arts/design/sarah-lucas-new-museum.html

David Hammons: https://www.moma.org/artists/2486

Erwing Wurm One Minute Sculptures: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wurm-one-minute-sculptures-p82013
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/erwin-wurm-one-minute-sculptures-art/index.html