.........unfathomable (alternative approaches to art)
dont forget water
dont forget good shoes
dont forget hat
snun screen?
michael swaine
swaine@uw.edu
class meetings
TUE , WED, THUR ,FRI
9:00-11:20
Physical ROOM # in art building = 227/229
Tuesdays - Tethered to campus
Wednesdays - Walking day
Thursdays -Touring via bus
Fridays- Linking
(zoom room when needed: https://washington.zoom.us/j/94207726071)
( we will talk on the first day about why/when we might use zoom )
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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 through art. We’ll explore where we each live. We’ll investigate how actions, such as touring a city or viewing public art, can become art.
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 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
NEXT DAY pick three to play
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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