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Creating the 21st Century... Jessica Hamlin jess@art21.org Mary Mattingly mary.mattingly@gmail.com
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How are artists engaging with personal, social, political, and global issues today? Ai Weiwei, Remembering, 2009. Backpacks and metal structure. Klaus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
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How might artists inspire new paradigms for teaching and learning? Tania BRUGHERA, Museum of Arte Util, 2014, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
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What is (contemporary) art?
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Claude Monet, Haystacks (sunset), 1890-91. Oil on canvas. Jessica Stockholder, [no title], 1995. Wicker chair, plastic tub, light fixture with bulb, synthetic polymer, oil paint, plastic, fabric, concrete, resin, wood, wheels, acrylic yarn, glass, cookies in resin, 71-1/2 x 63 x 50 inches.
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Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808, 1814Kerry James Marshall, Watts, 1963, 1995
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Leonardo DaVinci, Vitruvian Man, 1492 Cao Fei, RMB City 7, 2007
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Gong Xian, Ink Landscape with poem, 1688 Jenny Holzer, Truisms, 1977-79. Spectacolor electronic sign. Times Square, New York. 1986.
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Duchamp, Fountain, 1917. Porcelain. Tania Brughera, Tatlin’s Whisper #5, 2008. Two uniformed mounted policemen, crowd control police technique, two horses (one white, one brown), audience.
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What do artists do today? What expertise do they have?
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Mel Chin, KNOWMAD, 1999, Collaboration with KNOWMAD Confederacy
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Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa, 2003
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ALLORA and CALZADILLA, Chalk (Lima), 1998-2002.
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Allora and Calzadilla, Paradox: http://www.art21.org/videos/segment-allora-calzadilla-in-paradox
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An My Le 29 Palms (4:02) http://www.art21.org/videos/short-maya-lin-disappearing-bodies-of-water
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Dor Gabriel Orozco Spanish Lessons (4:45): http://www.art21.org/videos/short-gabriel-orozco-spanish-lessons
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How might educators think and work like artists across subject areas and disciplines?
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Pursue questions and follow curiosities: Artists as investigators Alfredo Jaar, The Silence of Nduwayezu, detail, 1997
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Read, talk, and research: Artists as researchers Mark Dion, The Great Munich Bug Hunt, 1993
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Focus on process: Artists as makers Oliver Herring, "Exit–Videosketch #6," 1999
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3. Inspire curiosity Experiment and play: Artists as inventors Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Under Discussion, video still, 2005
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3. Inspire curiosity Foster creative spaces: Artists as place makers Thomas Hirschhorn, Gramsci Monument, 2013
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Go beyond disciplinary boundaries: Artists as explorers Pierre Huyghe, A Journey That Wasn’t, 2005
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Carrie Mae Weems, From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, 1995 Make connections to the past: Artists as critical historians and storytellers
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Move from the personal to the social, political, and global: Artists as engaged citizens An My Le, 29 Palms: Security and Stabilization Operations, Graffiti, 2003-04
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Krzysztof Wodizcko, The Bunker Hill Monument, Boston, 1998 Work with others: Artists as collaborators and facilitators
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Ai Weiwei, Production still from the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 6 episode, "Change," 2012 Engage in critical discourse and productive criticism: Artists as change agents
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Embrace ambiguity, uncertainty, and failure: Artists as learners Tim Hawkinson, "Emotor," detail, 2000
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With a partner… Reflect on your own practices as an educator: ● Which strategies are most relevant to your practice? ● Which do you currently utilize? Which are less used? Why? ● Which strategies would you like to utilize in the future? Why?
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