Filed under: Work
…a response to existing conditions + the creation of meaning + in public space…
What: Urban Land Art is the practice of creating art from and in the urban landscape. Over the course of four 1 1/2 hr workshops, we will brainstorm + share ideas + investigate precedents, execute an individual piece(s), and lastly, a group project. Class size limit : 10. Please RSVP to ann@placingroutes.org.
Who: Novices, experts, and everyone in between..
Why: To define and create value + expand and/or refine our definition of art in public space
Where: 618 Tillery St.
When: The first 4 Sundays in April: 10:30 a.m.–12
Cost: $15
Supplies: enthusiasm, a digital camera, a (favorite) tool, or two, should you deem it necessary…
Project Parameters:
1) The projects undertaken should begin, and end, on the street. What happens between those two points is up to you. The materials and mediums we engage should be sourced from the public realm (streets, sidewalks, alleys, parks, paths, etc) You may chose to work with them in situ, or bring them home, but their final iteration/resting place should be, as described above, in the public realm.
2) Projects must be legal–something that would not be considered stealing or vandalism
3) All processes and projects should be environmentally considerate.
Syllabus:
(*some readings from the list at the bottom of this page may be assigned ahead of the first class meeting)
workshop 1-
introductions>
discussion: art, resources, public realm>
project 1 : Urban Still Life>
project 2 : Filling a void>
workshop 2-
project 1 + 2 shared>
project 3 : Words in a Hat>
project 4 : Interactive>
workshop 3-
project 3 + 4 shared>
project 5 : Anthropomorphic>
project 6 : Brainstorming
workshop 4-
project 5 shared>
project 6 production>
class wrap up / project documentation
Media (any and everything, man made and natural): film, sound, paper, plastic, dirt, wind, air, shadows, light, conversation, words, bugs, books, crayons, movement, space, solids, paths, night, day, you, them, everyone, no one….
Readings: de Certeau, Guy Debord, Richard Sennett, Henri Lefebvre, John Stilgoe
Related Topics: Land Art, Public Art, Bricolage, Strategies vs. Tactics, Situationism, dérives, and whatever else you’d like to bring to the table.
Sponsored by: www.placingroutes.org / art in the everyday
Filed under: Work | Tags: art, celebrating informal public art, class, girls guild, history, history of street art, street art, urban land art
This is an upcoming class! Sunday, January 27th, 10 am-12.
What: The History of (Street) Art; a compact 2 hour survey tracing the roots of informal public art from cave paintings to the present day.
Where: 618 Tillery St.
When: Sunday Feb.3, 10 am-12
Cost: $5 (covers coffee and bagels)
Syllabus:
1) How do we define “street art?”
2) Precedents through time: Cave painting, petroglyphs, hobo train art, stencils, murals, installations
3) Brainstorming, next steps, proposals, urban land art….
*Please note, though we cover some illegal forms of street art, the class does not encourage or endorse any kind of art acts that would be considered illegal or trespassing. It instead focuses on encouraging practices that are temporal and/or involve permission.
(from top to bottom: unknown, unknown , Anna Garforth, JR, Faith 47)
