04 Bodies of Work
Esti Cohen –3rd Year 2023Arley Milne –3rd Year 2023
Image & Craft Studio
Bodies Of work
– Georgia Janetzki & Alex Zubryn
Studio InqiuryBodies of Work is a course that provides opportunities for exploring diverse themes relating to the body in contemporary society.
Inspired by drawing and printmaking practices this studio involves research into visual thinking from a social, historical, and contemporary perspective.
Each assignment will be a thoughtful and highly resolved folio piece. Crafting imagery is thinking through image making.
EngagementMaterial thinking; idea generation, manifest in the methods of making images, is the foundation for practice-led research in this studio.
Critical inquiry will support a range of image-making techniques and media, however the emphasis will be on mark-making as a process for discovering visual meaning.
You will research histories of art and image-making.
Understanding an audience will be encouraged as it is vital for the success of communicating visual information.
Activities
Excursions and weekly workshops including drawing, printmaking and image-making praxis.
AssesmentsWorkshop and homework processes, outcomes and reflections create the content to produce a designed series of three Studio Knowledge Objects (SKO) in the form of A4 printed publications (and a psd-mockup of each). The design of the SKO series is important because these publications are your assessable project. During the semester you will develop a distinctly personal iconography by examining three core themes:
Brief OneBody Politic: form and shape
Brief TwoBody: the sensory and ephemeral
Brief ThreeGestural Bodies: Dynamic mark-making
Your SKO series will become a visual archive of your process that is reflective and analytical. This practice addresses a given area of study with an appropriate level of complexity. The SKO documents will establish an experimental, visual practice with a focus on authorial image-making for design and illustration.
ReadingsDeMello, Margo. Body Studies: An Introduction. First edition. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Explore Past student work via Are.Na