ART 131 A: Alternative Approaches to Art and Design

.........unfathomable (alternative approaches to art)

michael swaine

swaine@uw.edu

class meetings

TUE , WED, THUR,FRI

9:30-12;00

zoom room #

 https://washington.zoom.us/j/99152589575

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“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.” - James Baldwin

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In this class, we’ll explore our experiences of public spaces (virtual and physical) through art. We’ll explore where we each live. For example, some students might be in Hong Kong, and others in California. I, your teacher, will be in Seattle, grounding our virtual tours in the city where your university is located. We’ll investigate how actions, such as touring a city or viewing public art, can become art.

From your Zoom screens, you’ll participate in guided tours of Seattle that I’ll curate each week. Many of these walks will include visiting artists and curators. You’ll produce work wherever you live.

This class is designed with the idea in mind that most classes you’ll take at the university in future years will involve hours of sitting in chairs. This class is meant to offer the opposite experience — a mobile class that will keep you on the move most days in your respective city and change how you are a student for the next four years.

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"The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom with all its limitations remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labour for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom." - Bell Hooks 

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DAY ONE press play on all of the videos below at once

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FOLLOWING DAYS now, you can play them one at a time

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NOTES ON GRADES:

1/4 attendance / participation (in person and/or zoom and/or other)

1/4 small projects/ reading responses

1/4 class feedback loop 

1/4 your own research / work / project 

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