Studio (390-0-5)

Topic

Print / Performance / Protest

Instructors

Rudolf Brendan Fernandes
847/491-7346
640 Lincoln St, Evanston Campus

Meeting Info

Kresge 1330 Art Studio: Tues, Thurs 9:00AM - 11:50AM

Overview of class

The aim of this course is to introduce students to printmaking techniques as processes through which they will learn to think, visualize, conceptualize and communicate ideas. Through this studio course, students will engage posters and banners as ways of communicating activist concerns. In light of contemporary means of protest in art and in the public sphere, we will also consider ways of expressing ourselves through performative actions that examine the history of printmaking as a tool for speaking on behalf of oppressed bodies.

This course will investigate the history and practice of graphic imagery and text in protests and political posters. We will explore the relationship between print and the living body in performance; the slogan and embodiment through the "activist voice". The course will also provide an introduction to a variety of traditional and non-traditional print techniques including: monoprinting, relief, silkscreen and photocopying. Through course readings and assigned studio projects students will develop the skills to analyze both theoretical arguments and works of art through workshops, seminars, performances/actions and the creation of prints/zines. We will collectively create original prints and take them to the street. We will develop the skills to make socially engaged explorations in print-media and will consider how print-media can function at the intersection of art, activism and politics in your own practices.

As a prerequisite students must have taken at least one studio class in ATP.

Class Materials (Required)

Course costs: $75

Class Attributes

Attendance at 1st class mandatory