ART of the MOOC: Merging Public Art and Experimental Education
开始时间: 04/22/2022
持续时间: 7 weeks
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/artofthemooc
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Can a MOOC be a work of art? New York’s public art institution, Creative Time, and Duke University believe it can. Designed by artist and Duke professor, Pedro Lasch, and co-taught with Creative Time chief curator, Nato Thompson, ART of the MOOC functions simultaneously as a socially-engaged public art form and a survey course on that very subject. Taking full advantage of the global scale yet intimate environment that only a MOOC can offer, this course merges traditional classroom practices with new technology and aesthetic experimentation. Video lectures, complementary readings, and presentations by cross-national artists, curators, critics, and activists provide a formal and theoretical overview of the fundamental themes within socially-engaged public art. Interspersed with these lessons, students will contribute to the field by completing creative assignments and participating in collective art projects. Online forums and opportunities to assemble outside of class will allow students to share their activities while developing critical thinking and discussion skills. Through this hands-on, participatory approach, ART of the MOOC welcomes students as collaborators in an unprecedented expression of public art and education.
课程大纲
Week 1: Public Art & Spatial Politics (Lasch & Thompson)
This lesson will lay out some basic definitions of public practice and socially engaged art, especially as they relate to spatial politics. Through key examples and projects, we will examine the critical role that such practices have had in relation to various forms of urbanism and social planning, as well as physical and symbolic mechanisms that separate the global and the local, the urban and the rural, the visible and the invisible, citizens from immigrants, settlers from refugees. Students will refer to the lecture and guest presentations as both foundation and inspiration for their own experiments on spatial politics.
Guest presenters: Claire Doherty, Tom Finkelpearl, Rick Lowe, Enrique Peñalosa
Week 2: Experimental Pedagogy (Lasch)
Socially engaged artists can be extraordinary communicators, educators by training or vocation. From Freire to Boal to feminist consciousness raising, a brief review of some theories of experimental pedagody and radical education and their influence on particular projects are hence the focus of this lesson. Using varied technologies and social forms, some of these works set out to transform educational institutions from within, while others intentionally place themselves outside them as self-organized platforms. Whether art is being made or studied is not necessarily relevant. What matters is the production of alternative communities of learning, often challenging the hierarchies, professionalization, homogenization, and debt mechanisms of our current education systems.
Guest presenters: Tania Bruguera, Sean Dockray, Suzanne Lacy, Cesare Pietroiusti
Week 3: Fictions, Alternative Structures and Mock-Institutions (Lasch & Thompson)
Social artworks have by definitition been collective endeavors. Some seek to transform larger social structures and economies or, perhaps more modestly, offer some alternatives. Others simply wish to confront immediate challenges. The production of an unusual, creative, or engaged collective body can itself be the goal for some of these works. In this lesson we will learn how socially engaged artists have used the guise or actual form of governmental and non-governmental organizations, institutions, churches, corporations, banks, and other such social units as the very media of their work.
Guest presenters: Mujeres Creando, Fran Ilich, Ruangrupa, Caroline Woolard
Week 4: Aesthetics, Art History, and Cultural Institutions (Lasch & Thompson)
Starting with an exploration of the ways in which socially engaged public art has been included and excluded from particular art historical narratives, aesthetic theories, and international art institutions or events, we will use this lesson to follow social practices as they question the overall function and logic of conventional art and art history. It is for this very reason that students will be invited to create projects that directly engage with Cultivating, Farming, Cooking, or Eating, activities that are fundamentally social, but traditionally seen to be in contradiction with any serious artistic production.
Guest presenters: Chido Govera, Hans Haacke, Jolene Rickard, Abigail Satinsky, Greg Sholette
Week 5: Embodied Knowledges (Lasch)
Women, minorities, and majorities of color worldwide have long understood that knowledge is hard or impossible to separate from one’s gender, sexuality, or skin tone. Linking socially engaged art to performance art, gesture, and ‘writing without words’ this lesson will use the notion of ‘embodied knowledges’ to understand the sustained critique that much social practice has launched against Western paradigms that separate information from matter, reason from affect, mind from the body, the worker from her labor, the individual from the collective. This lesson’s practical components will ask students to actively think ‘from’ their particular site of enunciation and ‘through’ their particular embodied knowledge.
Guest presenters: Mariam Ghani, Sharon Hayes, Shannon Jackson, Wanda Nanibush, Chemi Rosado-Seijo
Week 6: Activism and Social Movements (Lasch & Thompson)
We are dedicating the final lesson of our MOOC to the prolific and exciting overlap between socially engaged art and the wider cultural practices of recent social movements around the world. The cultural effervescence that has accompanied Environmentalism, AIDS activism, Queer movements, Zapatismo, immigrant rallies, alter-globalization, the World Social Forum, Occupy, protests in China, museum boycotts, and multiple uprisings in the Middle East will here be seen in direct dialogue with artists and cultural producers who are either part of these very movements, or are doing work inspired by them. Rather than pass judgment on the political efficacy of such cultural activities, or reaching conclusions on the fate of their associated movements, we will examine their place within contemporary art and public practice. The students’ own projects will engage Listening, Organizing, Dancing, or Partying, setting each student’s contributions within the context of a particular social movements that may seem relevant or inspiring.
Guest presenters:
Beka Economopoulos, Gulf Labor (Mariam Ghani, Greg Sholette, Andrew Ross), Rebecca Gomperts, Leonidas Martin, Naeem Mohaiemen, Joshua Wong
Full List of Guest Presenters:
- Tania Bruguera
- Sean Dockray
- Claire Doherty
- Beka Economopoulos
- Tom Finkelpearl
- Future Farmers
- Mariam Ghani
- Rebecca Gomperts
- Chido Govera
- Gulf Labor
- Hans Haacke
- Sharon Hayes
- Fran Ilich
- Shannon Jackson
- Suzanne Lacy
- Rick Lowe
- Leonidas Martin
- Naeem Mohaiemen
- Mujeres Creando
- Wanda Nanibush
- Enrique Peñalosa
- Cesare Pietroiusti
- Jolene Rickard
- Chemi Rosado-Seijo
- Abigail Satinsky
- Gregory Sholette
- Ruangrupa
- Joshua Wong
- Caroline Woolard
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