Course overview
This studio course introduces students to the repurposing of everyday images, found objects, materials, media, spaces, and situations for the creation of artworks. The forms of collage, assemblage, bricolage, ready-mades, hacks, mashups, installations, and happenings produced will be explored as vehicles for low-stakes experimentation, and as critical modes with the capacity to reframe the world and its systems. Through this, students will be invited to reflect on the value of constraints and conceptual and material investigations for the generation of creative ideas and be introduced to the iterative, practice-based research methods used in subsequent courses in the Fine Arts program.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate a broad knowledge of the principles of practice-based research in Fine Arts and its diverse forms
- Develop technical skills to explore and make creative use of everyday materials in response to various themes, briefs, and provocations
- Apply problem-solving techniques within the specific parameters of the course activities to produce creative and innovative artworks
- Communicate ideas effectively using appropriate media and formats to present artworks and articulate the creative process
- Reflect critically on the relationship between concepts, processes, materials, and methods in the creation of contemporary artworks