Studio Seminar in Art and the Public Sphere (Spring 2021)

Instructor

Gediminas Urbonas

Units

u 3-3-6, g 3-3-3 or 3-3-6

Credit

u/g

Schedule

MW 930-1230

Location

Virtual

Focuses on the production of artistic interventions in public space. Explores ideas, situations, objects, and materials that shape public space and inform the notion of publicness, with an emphasis on coproduction and cooperative ethics. Examines forms of environmental art in comparison to temporal and critical forms of art and action in the public sphere. Historical models include the Russian Constructivists, the Situationists International, ecosystematic aesthetics, conceptual art, and contemporary interventionist tactics and artistic strategies. Helps students develop an initial concept for a publicly-situated project. Includes guest lectures, visiting artist presentations, and optional field trips. Additional work required of students taking graduate version.

Limited to 12.