INSTALLATIONS
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. The objects should all be the same.
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 dead cats. 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 book form.
Documentation
Between 100-500 words on the following (your writing should address each of these bullet points, but not read like a robotic response to them)
The significance, atmosphere, function of your location
The material, original function, arrangement of your materials
How a person would experience your work, how the installation changes the experience/function of the space
Your reasoning/ thesis for working with the material and location you did, and what you wanted to accomplish
Research
- Choose one of the artists from Art 21 that do installation work. (It does not have to be their primary mode of working)
- Create a link from this site to a new page on that artist.
- Find 3 images that display their work. Include a written description about how they use space, how/whether the location of their work is important to its meaning.
- Present this work to the class.
Ann Hamilton
Kara Walker2
Pepon Osorio
Maya Lin
Tim Hawkinson
Richard Serra
Do-Ho Suh
James Turrell
Janine Antoni
Margaret Kilgallen
Cai Guo-Qiang
Matthew Ritchie
Krystof Wodiczko
Mark Jenkins
Barbara Kruger
Judy Pfaff
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 indesign. The center spread is good for images or text that runs across the center gutter. Doing this on other pages demonstrates good control of the book design and contruction.
I put installation book templates for both binding methods in the shared folder on the do server.instructions on printing the booksbinding.jpg+
Instructions on printing the books
design your book in at least 3 spreads
print one whole set of the spreads, resulting in 4 1-sided papers.
print another whole set on the back side of the first set. (all of the following details may vary depending on the printer - pay attention if it comes out wrong make note of how it should be). Set the print settings to manual feed and re-sequence the papers into this order (2-7, 8-1, 6-3, 4-5). Be sure to put papers into the manual feed with the blank side up on the black and white printer, blank side down on the color printer. Also pay attention to the which side is the top of the page as it comes out of the printer and insert the papers so that the top comes out correctly.
Here is how we can keep the jobs from getting mixed up and mistakenly printing on someone else’s pages:
Any paper in the manual feed will be taken instead of paper in the drawers, so don’t put your paper in the manual feed until you know your job is ready to print.
The printer will call for manually feeding paper when it is ready to print the next manual feed job.
To keep the sequence correct for the order of manual feed jobs;
a. send your job to print
b. go straight to the printer with your paper stock in order and ready to insert.
c. ask anyone around the printer if they are waiting for a manually fed print job. If there is anyone else, maintain your order. Be sure to be vocal and holler out, if d. If this method gets confusing we should come up with a more rigorous way to keep track.
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