| 01. Graphics (due
06.29.04) |
| Create an
easily reproducible graphics piece incorporating image and text.
The content of the piece should address a political
or social issue that you research. Consider audience, site, and
context in the design of the piece. Distribute the piece
in at least one location/site/context, and document
the result. |
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| 02.
Performance (due 07.20.04) |
| Create a performance resonant with social or political issues of
your choosing. Consider carefully questions of participation, venue,
audience, and intent along with form and content. If the performance
will take
place
out
of the classroom, consider whether you want to document the event or
invite us to witness or participate. |
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| 03. Tour (due
08.03.04) |
| Create a project in which you explore
how a social or political issue is experienced spatially. Self-consciously
use one
or more of the activities and artifacts of tourism (postcards, maps,
audio tours, snapshots, travel itself) in
your investigation. Think about Urry’s distinction between corporeal
travel, virtual travel,
and imaginative travel. |
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| 04. Paper (topic due 7.13.04, paper due 7.29.04) |
| Write a 3-5 (undergrad)/7-10
(grad) page critical or historical essay on political art. Non-traditional
formats will be considered
if proposal is submitted with topic. Choose from one of the following
broad frameworks: |
| a. a critical essay on one artist, collective, or project. |
| b. a critical analysis of one of your own projects in light of
the history of political art. |
| c. a positioned, critical essay on a common problem or
theme in the class. Examples might be the uneasy relation of political
work to the audience, ideas of authority and authorship, question
of site, the relation of social work to social transformation,
etc. |
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| 05. Images |
| The following
are select images from student projects completed during the summer
course. Because of the participatory and performative nature
of many of the projects, some images may need further explanation,
provided in the students' papers. The papers and images are compiled
into a class zine, available for downloading here later in the summer. |
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Jennifer Jackson |
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Ellen
Martin |
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Kim
Shay and Molly Sullivan |
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Josh Fournier |
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Jennifer Jackson |
| Jennifer's performance involved sewing
change purses containing information about sweatshop labor outside
the University of Illinois bookstore, which sells a logoed sports
apparel made in sweatshops. Her modest, awareness-raising activity
became an opportunity to engage passers-by in conversation. |
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Ellen
Martin |
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Kim Shay and Molly Sullivan |
| Kim
and Molly continued their exploration of the university as site
by organizing the first in a series of free social events in
an underused university space: an outdoor ampitheater at the
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Participants gathered
at dusk to play a modified game of charades. |
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Jane Anichini |
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Kim
Shay and Molly Sullivan
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Nadia Oussenko |
| Nadia's tour of the outside skin of the
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts happened informally, in
the context of a game of partnered hide-and-seek. She wanted to
create an intimate space for classmates to get to know each other
and to engage in non-commodified entertainment on the outside of
a space of high culture. |
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Ellen
Martin |
Ellie
created an eight-hour long, real-time video documenting one
shift at the university recycling facility. |
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