FALL 2011: FPA 269/369 Methods and Concepts Special Topics
SCA TV
Response and Reportage
on School for the Contemporary Arts Events and Activities
Instructor: Judy Radul
Mo 5:30 to 8:20 pm/Th 5:30 to 8:20 pm Woodward’s Campus
A studio course introducing topics in “artist’s television” and other forms of creative response and reportage. We will take the many activities of the School for the Contemporary Arts and related Cultural Unit and Community Engagement Office, as our subject. Students will be asked to attend performances, artists talks, exhibitions, events, rehearsals, in class presentations, etc. and find creative ways to document, report on and respond to these activities. The work will be particularly focused around creating video clips and an internet “TV station” as well as blogging, and other forms of text, image and sound production.
We will continually return to the question: what are artistic forms of response, reportage, and document? Looking at works by a range of artists including Hito Steyerl, Mathew Buckingham, Harun Farocki, Luke Fowler, Walid Raad and reading related texts on image and document, will frame our discussion.
Students with skills in a range of areas (video, audio, web design, internet communication) will be ideally suited for the course as the focus is using skills you already have and acquiring new skills primarily through self-directed study. Students will be required to attend some events outside of class time.
This course may be taken more than once for credit under a different topic. Prerequisite: FPA 161 and status as an approved major or extended minor in visual art or approval of instructor. (if you do not have FPA 161 please email jaradul@sfu.ca a short statement regarding your interest in the course and your skill set). A course materials fee is required.
Texts and Readings: The Greenroom Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art #1, Maria Lind, Hito Steyerl (Eds.)Other readings : TBA
References: http://thewoostergroup.org/blog/