BART 14A03 - Learn like an artist: knowledge as composition

Since the 1980s, the field of performance studies has blurred the boundaries between art and social science, by focusing on what happens instead of what is. More recently, the explosion of ‘creative' occupations, from the work of marketing professionals to tik-tok video makers, has produced new understandings of art and artistic production, intersecting with the capitalist economy and new visual media cultures. How do we think critically about the art/social science field of interaction and what can we do in it? During this workshop, students will engage with texts, art works and accounts of artistic practice to deepen their understanding of form, representation, and the creator's positionality. Putting these ideas into practice, they will pursue individual and group exercises and undertake a creative project of object decomposition. Beginning with a chosen work of art, text, or object, they will dissolve its original meaning and form through mind-mapping and free association, in order to eventually re-compose it as a novel object of knowledge, in a new aesthetic and epistemological context. As part of this course, students will have the chance to hear from an established visual artist and pose their own questions.

Ira BLIATKA

Atelier

English

A good level of English (at least B1), and creative curiosity

Spring 2020-2021

The assessed outputs associated with the course are: a) a referenced diagram/mind-map and b) a final artistic project in each student's selected format, accompanied by a short text commentary. Students will be evaluated in a comprehensive manner, considering their presence, preparedness, engagement with the course materials; and personal motivation: