Art on Location/Sculpture 3040
Winter Interm Class

Syllabus

02 January 2008
Aims of the course

Mary Jane Jacob introduces aims of the course

03 - 04 January 2008
Introductions

January 3: artway of thinking introduces their past projects; students do self introductions | January 4: process of undertaking the workshop, organization of fieldwork and installation in subsequent phases.

07- 09 January 2008
Workshop Co/Operare

Co/Operation is the beginning of journey that will lead to build the relational map of the Chicago’s artist’s community. Students from SAIC, colleagues from Chicago’s organizations and art spaces will experiment strategies and groups dynamics to collaborate at the realization of this new vision, through a collective creative process.

10 - 16 January 2008
Head out in the field - Context Observation

The ability to create is strictly connected to knowledge: more information we have grater is the possibility to elaborate new visions. In this phase of creative process we will work on the themes of observing and listening. In the creative process, like in scientific research, to answer a question, like the one we ask ourselves “How do you envision yourself outside art school in the city?” we begin from the context observation.

19-23 January 2008
Make a show! - Elaboration and Collective Action

With the objective to put it into a system and to translate the acquired information, we’ll give form to the invisible. The elaboration phase is the heart of the process, the moment where a new vision is born, and a strategy is made to give it back to the context. Through the creative action the group’s vision take a concrete form in the world.