2021-22 Fall

Public Art Interventions

(HART 1035)



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.

Remarks:

  • Please be noted that students will have to pay for their own material fee involved in the creation by themselves.
  • Please keep the classroom clean by clearing the desks / materials left after class to maintain a tidy environment for subsequent classes.

  1. Demonstrate and identify knowledge of recent trends and tendencies in public art practices
  2. Apply a self-developed artistic concept that takes into consideration the spatial qualities of a location
  3. Produce a creative intervention that challenges the original perception of the site
  4. Demonstrate a sustainable work ethic

Part I: Introduction to Contemporary Concepts of Public Art Practice

Session 1: Overview of Public Art

Session 2: Functions and concepts of Public Art

Session 3: Urban Interventions & Guerrilla Art

 

Part II: Exploring Options and Developing Concept

Session 4: Materiality of Places and Sites

Session 5: Experiencing Places and Sites

Session 6: Space as Narrative Medium

 

Part III: Artwork Creation and Implementation

Session 7: Individual Research Presentation & Studio Practice and Creative Processes I
Session 8: Concept Presentation & Studio Practice and Creative Processes II
Session 9: Studio Practice and Creative Processes III

Session 10: Display and Installation Techniques

Session 11-13: Artwork Implementation, Documentation & Feedback Collection, Post Production, Feedback & Evaluation

  1. Krause, Cher Knight. Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. ISBN 978-1405155595
  2. Kwon, Miwon. One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. ISBN 978-7-80262-112659

Books

  1. Dean, Tacita, and Jeremy Millar. Place (Art Works). London: Thames and Hudson, 2005. ISBN 978-0500930076
  2. Hoffmann, Jens, and Joan Jonas. Perform (Art Works). London: Thames and Hudson, 2005. ISBN 978-0500930069
  3. Klanten, Robert, and Matthias Hübner (eds.). Urban Interventions: Personal Projects in Public Spaces. Berlin: Gestalten, 2010. ISBN 978-3-89955-291-1
  4. 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 : 26-27 Aug 2021
Add/Drop : 01-14 Sep 2021

Instructor

Jamsen LAW

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%

Class Schedule

Monday | 14:30 - 16:20

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