Mark Dion
Museum Culture
Museums; what are they? where did they come from? and who are they for? These are some of the questions that will be explored in this intensive sociocultural class, conducted with customary Mark Dion humor and joy.
Tania Bruguera
Performing for the Internet
Performing for the Internet at TAAS will merge with Tania’s Harvard course of the same theme. Tania will bring these two courses together through the Web to discuss performance for the virtual space.
Nato Thompson
Making a Life of Art
In this course, Thompson will address and workshop the complexities of living an artistic life. Ranging from practical issues like artistic work routines and navigating the art world to more philosophical issues of community, sustainability, and life-work balance.
Mario Ybarra Jr.
Painter to Pointer
Through the exploration of wet media to social media, students will move between painting as an art medium and how it can amplify its effect in relation to site, audience, context, and social engagement.
Guadalupe Maraville
Intensive with Guadalupe Maraville
Art is in a constant process of expansion and is constantly absorbing new materials, media, strategies, and ideologies. In general terms, the goal of my class is to teach my students about art as a living contemporary practice and the importance of self-care. The class will focus on information and techniques that are relevant to the present.
Zoe Butt
Embodying Method: How Artists Provide Responsive Strategies for Sustaining Knowledge
The context of artistic production across the globe is incredibly vast and thus diverse in nature and capacity. Artistic intention is often driven by local landscapes of increasing political fragility, where the urgency to mine the past, in order to excavate historical reason, is paramount to sustaining conversations surrounding issues of sovereignty, religious freedom, Indigeneity, race, spiritual affinities, environmental justice and so much more.
ArtLab
Workshop with Amber Imrie
This non-hierarchical workshop wherein artists will offer each other critical feedback, from idea to fruition, testing and experimenting through iterations, and culminate in an online group exhibition of the finished artworks.
Janine Antoni
At Home in the Body
This class will be part laboratory, part playground, part archeological dig: a place to relate, to connect, and to honor difference.
Pier Luigi Sacco
Aesthetics of impact. Artistic practice and transformational social change
Should artistic practice have an ‘impact’ – that is, beyond the consensus, it is able to command within the art system? This question has a special importance for all such practices that cut through the traditional borders of studio art to directly involve specific individuals and communities, especially when such individual or collective subjects suffer from any form of marginalization and deprivation.
Raqs Media Collective
Procedure, Procedure, Procedure
In ‘Procedure, Procedure, Procedure’, Raqs Media Collective will present an outline of the attitudes, methods, and infrastructural stances it undertakes in order to sustain and develop its three-decade-long artistic, curatorial, and research practice.
The two-week module will be structured through readings, focused discussions, conversations, and exercises.
Marinella Senatore
Building community: Collective Agency
Through her background as a trained cinematographer, Senatore is offering a special workshop surrounding the following themes: 1) the directing of photography and camera workshop 2) lighting and painting 3) Tutorials about “The School of Narrative Dance” and mindfulness sessions. These themes will be touched upon throughout the course.
Cassils
The Body As Instrument And Image
This is a class where we will develop a performance. structured around embodied research, guest lectures, and exposure to several artist works and films. We will be meeting with, hearing from, and engaging the practices of a diverse group of artists whose practices critically, thoughtfully, and beautifully engage intersectional struggles of our time.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
When Nothingness becomes Form
“I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living... How do we continue to think about making art in a world where existing as a human is no longer sustainable? How can we communicate in a world where communication is reduced into 270 characters?