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installations

Projects due at the beginning of class on Weds. April 16th.

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.

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.

Barry McGee
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

Installation

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 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+

Documentation and Writing

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

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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