2012-13 Spring
(HART 1016)
1 Credit | Can be used to fulfill Common Core Requirement (Core Elective: Arts Area)
Teaching Medium: English
This course aims to introduce students to the creative potential and concepts of installation art. Students will explore and experience their surroundings in unfamiliar ways, and discover new understanding of their living environment and new ways of artistic creation. Students will gain an understanding of the streams of development and the creative concepts of installation art, as well as its influences to both visual arts and the society. Students will also learn to explore space, materials, forms, contents and techniques in installation art. Upon the completion of the course, students will experience making use of spatial design as a means of communication and expression.
- Describe and appreciate the history and development of installation art
- Identify the aesthetic, cultural and social elements of installation art
- Apply the artistic concepts to the process of art making
- Use installation art as a medium of expression and communication
Part 1: Understand the spatial elements of installation art
Week 1: Installation Art in Everyday Life – Revisiting spatial design and our surroundings
Week 2: Defining Space – discovering space for art making
Week 3: Materiality in Installation Art
Week 4: Experience of Time in Installation Art
Part 2: Understand our surroundings - Installation Art as an interface to interact with our community
Week 5: The Influence of Situationist International
Week 6: Introduction of Happenings and Performance Arts – Time-based spatial artwork
Week 7: Space as Narrative Medium 1 – Introduction to public art
Week 8: Space as Narrative Medium 2 – Short presentation of the proposal of final project
Part 3: Understand current practice of Installation Artists - Installation Art as an expression tool
Week 9: Introduction to Land Art
Week 10-11: Final Exhibition Set Up
Week 12-13: Critique of Final Exhibition
Week 14: Installation Art in Hong Kong – Field Trip
Hugh M. Davies, Ronald J. Onorato. Blurring the boundaries: installation art, 1969‐1996.
La Jolla, Calif.: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, c1997
- De Oliveira, Nicolas. Installation Art. London : Thames and Hudson, c1994
- Erika Suderburg, ed. Space, site, intervention: situating installation art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2000
- Anish Kapoor [DVD]. theEYE series, Illuminations TV
- Antony Gormley [DVD]. theEYE series, Illuminations TV
- Martin Creed [DVD]. theEYE series, Illuminations TV
- Mona Hatoum [DVD]. theEYE series, Illuminations TV
- Rachel Whiteread [DVD]. theEYE series, Illuminations TV
- Richard Wilson [DVD]. theEYE series, Illuminations TV
- Vong Phaophanit [DVD]. theEYE series, Illuminations TV
- Langlands & Bell [DVD]. theEYE series, Illuminations TV
- Michael Landy, [DVD]. theEYE series, Illuminations TV
- Richard Deacon, [DVD]. theEYE series, Illuminations TV
- Olafur Eliasson, [DVD]. Art Lives series, Illuminations TV
