This Fall my New Genre's Art Class at USC has been collaborating with the Levan Institute For Humanities and Ethics. Come January students will be mounting an exhibition/event. It May Be Legal But Is It Right?, will be a show and happening made up of artwork that engage the students of USC in aesthetic and ethical questions. Students projects will interrogate the ethics of warfare, labor, privacy, business, speech, and authority. The show will be mounted outdoors in a campus quad, with some projects taking place off site, as interventions in the campus architecture.
This semester our class focused on ways artist engage publics. We looked at rhetoric and theory surrounding the manner by which representational, abstract, and social/relational art are said to connect with people. We considered practice as a form of sociological or behavioral psychology. We looked at artists who create stages or situations for encounter. And we considered the genres of parodic art and service as strategies to interrogate publics.
Students of FA 335 discussing their projects to be made public this January for the show "It May Be Legal But Is It Right?"
Update 4/2/2010...
Show happened, article here!
This semester our class focused on ways artist engage publics. We looked at rhetoric and theory surrounding the manner by which representational, abstract, and social/relational art are said to connect with people. We considered practice as a form of sociological or behavioral psychology. We looked at artists who create stages or situations for encounter. And we considered the genres of parodic art and service as strategies to interrogate publics.
Students of FA 335 discussing their projects to be made public this January for the show "It May Be Legal But Is It Right?"Update 4/2/2010...
Show happened, article here!