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Installations Various Installation works.

Project Description:

Select/collect a multiple of a common objects and install the set in some part of the local environment around the GVSU art and design department. As a guide install between 15 and 100 items and generally select items smaller than a person.

Plan your installation appropriately. Coordinate any important details with instructor. With consultation of instructor gain permission from anyone whose responsibility it is to maintain the area you will be installing in (i.e. the building and grounds staff should be contacted regarding -Any installation on the lawn or woods). Be deliberate and responsible about any interference you might cause for normal movement or egress. Do not do anything that will damage the built or natural environment. Do not do anything that may cause risk or harm to anyone.
Rules/Guides

• Inform/consult with instructor on the location, form, and permissions gained for your project.
• Any project that might damage or change any of nature (or give the impression of such) requires consultation with GVSU plant services department. This communication should be done in coordination with instructor.
• Anything that is to be stuck into the ground on a mown area needs to be approved to be sure that it does not hit burried electrical
• Any method of attaching things to the building should be checked with me - blue tape is the only officially approved adhesive
• It is illegal to tie or hang things from any fire suppression equipment (sprinklers) and permission should be gained to hang things from any other mechanical devices
• Building code also requires a 36 inch passageway in any corridor.
• Any projects in non-art department areas need to be approved in advance in writing by the appropriate authority in coordination with instructor.
• No fire or live animals. If you choose to use food or other items of vital value, be careful how you use it.
• Don't harm or appear to harm the viewer.
• Some of these can be temporarily suspended, but only with permission of the appropriate authorities.

Schedule a time with the instructor and plan to install your piece and have it available for viewing by the class. Also, document the installation with at digital photographs, a title, and some descriptive text. This documentation will be presented in a form determined in the studio (display boards or book form).

Books

The installation project will conclude with the creation of documentary book that includes descriptive text and images of your installation. The purpose of documentation is to record the event and convey the experience of the piece to people after the fact.

Book details: Each student creates an edition of 2 hand constructed books. Each book should have a minimum of 3 spreads (a spread is any of the 2 page surfaces visible when a book is open). The standard form of the book will be a simple sewed pamphlet binding using 5 holes. To make the 3 spreads you'll need to print 2 sheets double sided. You can also included text on the outside (front/back page). Each booklet will also include a cover of thicker, cover-appropriate material.

You may also opt to do a more hand constructed, collaged book. Be sure that craft is appropriate and deliberate. Other bindings or methods of presentation are also able to be used.

The size of the books are optional. If you use 8.5x11 inch stock your pages and books will be a maximum of 5.5x8.5. You may also opt to use legal size stock which renders a maximum page/book of 7x8.5.

I recommend using freehand, illustrator, or other appropriate layout programs. It is also recommended that you use only the central spread for image or text blocks that crossover the central fold of the spread. Otherwise keep them to the page area (leaving room for the print margin and gutter).
Printing spreads in Freehand
I put an installation book template in the shared folder on merz.art.gvsu.edu. This includes these instructions on printing the books

Learning objectives for the multiples installation:

1. In this project we will identify and work with common objects that slip - have/generate multiple meanings.

This slippage can be effected by the following:

• The item and its features
• The configuration of the items
• The context, site, and environment of the installation.

2. Identify and use the inherent features and dynamics of a site and understand the underlying structural meanings inherent in various sites.

3. Identify and use basic compositional configurations and be able to recognize and use their underlying metaphorical structures. Some of these structures are:

• Container
• Path - Narrative
• Whole-Part
• Linkage
• Center Periphery

4. Defy the constriction of normalcy by doing an imaginative act in public space - to see/make the connection between art and life.

Additional learning objectives are

• Finding and making meaning in relational ways (in what happens between things, not the things themselves.
• Developing and refining the details of construction and craft appropriate to the ideas and context.
• Inventing systems of construction and meaning that control and refine visual, imaginative, and conceptual impact.
• Learning the importance and methods of documentation. In this visual and written elements are used to re-present the experience of the project in a documentary form.

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