Course Description

This course will investigate the ways in which artists have presented narratives in the public realm and the organizations that have made the presentation of those works central to their curatorial practices over the last 40 years. Focusing on recent works presented in New York’s public spaces by Creative Time, The Public Art Fund, the Percent for Art Program, Arts for Transit and other non-profits organizations, this course will look at what it meant to tell stories and open discourses that challenged or interrogated widely-held value systems, the events and the politics of their time. In addition to the specifics of current and other key works and projects, we will discuss the conditions that governed the development of public performance, temporary and permanent installations, the ways in which those works were influenced by public approval processes and governmental agencies, media coverage and community response. Each student’s final project will be an on-line proposal for an exhibition that conveys a “narrative“ developed in the context of this course, referencing other relevant works .

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Project Proposal: West Village

Cities within the city: I propose a project in which the city is juxtaposed against itself. I would like to explore and contest neighborhood identity and its visual language. To do this, I would use wheat paste posters, sidewalk graffiti, stickers, and other media like this that is easy to place and does not interfere with what is allowed within the space (as these are media already used by advertisers and common in the space). I would like to create an immigrant city within the West Village, a city of outsiders, overlaying images of sidewalks in other places onto sidewalks in the village. Walls onto walls. Buildings onto buildings. Plants. Photographs of corners and people and life in other places. Life of other places in other places.
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