VISCR-6300-1/GELCT 6800-4 Description: We all create archives; many of us use them, too. Artists, curators, writers, historians, and scholars of visual cultural studies have good reason to do primary research in archives that hold treasure troves of material awaiting contextualization and interpretation. There are strategies for moving from looking at stuff to developing ideas, interdisciplinary projects, and expansive theory about why and how “knowledge” is collected and preserved in archives (or not at all). Taking the archive as a problem for intellectual consideration, you will produce culminating semester projects--research paper and oral presentation--about an archival subject and/or a rigorously constructed, fictional archive.
CURP-6060-2 Description: This course is a practicum concentrated on real-world engagement with artists, with a focus on the formats of the studio visit and the interview. Students conduct, document, and present studio visits and interviews with artists, with a view to accumulating a substantial body of knowledge about contemporary artistic practice.
Our semester long question: What are the powers of archives?
- Instructor: Jacqueline Francis