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 .

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Public Narrative: Gran Fury

Lacey Loughlin

The Gran Furys strategy of creating T-shirts, posters, and banners as a way to communicate their ideas and the need for AIDS to be taken seriously reminded me of how widespread and widely communicated the need to vote in the midterm election is. The word "VOTE" is seen everywhere. On t-shirts, sidewalks, social media. It resonated because this election has a record high amount of voters.

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