2015-16 Spring
(HART 1035)
1 Credit | Can be used to fulfill Common Core Requirement (Core Elective: Arts Area)
Teaching Medium: English
Course Description
This course aims to introduce students without artistic background into hands-on art making for the public realm. Students will look into contemporary concepts of art in public space, such as interventions and guerrilla art, and learn how art has the potential to transform our everyday perception of our life, as taking art from a gallery context into the public can be challenging and thought provoking, yet at the same time playful and meaningful.
As part of the course, participants will explore UST campus for its artistic potential, and complete a series of site-specific interventions using spatial concepts, methodologies, techniques and materials available. Most likely the interventions will be ephemeral only, yet the effect and memory they create for the passing audience will be longer lasting. The interventions will also encourage direct interaction with and feedback from the audience, thus provide participants opportunities to very actively get involved with their daily community.
- Demonstrate and identify knowledge of recent trends and tendencies in public art practices
- Apply a self-developed artistic concept that takes into consideration the spatial qualities of a location
- Produce a creative intervention that challenges the original perception of the site
- Demonstrate a sustainable work ethic
Part I: Introduction to Contemporary Concepts of Public Art Practice
Week 1: Overview of Public Art
Week 2: Traditional Public Art in Hong Kong
Week 3: Urban Interventions & Guerrilla Art
Part II: Exploring Options and Developing Concept
Week 4: Characteristics of Places and Sites
Week 6: Development of Ideas and Concepts for Public Art Projects
Week 7: Concept Verification and Group Presentation
Part III: Artwork Creation and Implementation
Week 8-9: Studio Practice and Creative Processes
Week 10-11: Display and Installation Techniques for Exhibition
Week 12-13: Artwork Implementation, Documentation & Feedback Collection
- Krause, Cher Knight. Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. ISBN 978-1405155595
- Kwon, Miwon. One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. ISBN 978-7-80262-112659
Books
- Dean, Tacita, and Jeremy Millar. Place (Art Works). London: Thames and Hudson, 2005. ISBN 978-0500930076
- Hoffmann, Jens, and Joan Jonas. Perform (Art Works). London: Thames and Hudson, 2005. ISBN 978-0500930069
- Klanten, Robert, and Matthias Hübner (eds.). Urban Interventions: Personal Projects in Public Spaces. Berlin: Gestalten, 2010. ISBN 978-3-89955-291-1
- Matzner, Florian (ed.). Public Art. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2001. ISBN 978-3775790734
Websites
http://publicartnow.com/
http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/APO/en_US/web/apo/artivatingpublicbuildings.html
http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/APO/en_US/web/apo/apo_publicart_archive.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_art
http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/
http://www.publicartarchive.org/
http://www.art-public.com/
http://www.calder.org/
https://publicart.org.hk/
http://www.islandeast.com/eng/art/index.htm
http://www.olafureliasson.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy
http://christojeanneclaude.net/
http://www.richardlong.org/
http://www.danielburen.com/
http://banksy.co.uk/
http://knithacker.com/
http://knitta.com
Enrolment Details
Course Registration : 08-08 Oct 2024Add/Drop : 08-08 Oct 2024
Instructor
Cornelia ERDMANN
Assessment
| Attendance and Participation | 20% |
| Individual Research Presentation | 10% |
| Group Concept Presentation of Public Art Intervention | 20% |
| Public Art Intervention (in small group work) & Documentation (individual) | 50% |