FINAR-6040-5: Fine Arts Seminar: Press Print / Press Play
Spring 2022
- Subject: Graduate Fine Arts
- Type: Workshop
- Delivery Mode: In-Person
- Level: Graduate
- Campus: San Francisco/Oakland
- Course Dates: January 18, 2022 — May 08, 2022
- Meetings:
Fri 4:00-07:00PM, Oakland - Founders - 103: Letterpress
Fri 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC3 - Instructor: Anthea Black
- Units: 3.0
- Enrolled: 10/12 Closed
Description:
Artist books, podcasts, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, bulletins, broadsheets, newsletters, chapbooks, comics, zines, recordings, printed ephemera, editioned objects, and multiples of all kinds are again proliferating in contemporary art; this studio seminar is the place to start. Press Print > Press Play is for anyone who wants to start publishing now. We will get into this improvisational yet demanding practice, like many emerging publishers, making it up as we go along. What are the processes that comprise publication? How do we foster published works from creation, to editing, and design, to production and distribution? Are you making books for the moment, the archive, the undercommons, or the coffee table? You will make books, objects, audio, sampling widely from publishing theory and criticism, all the while working towards skillful technical orchestration of materials and ideas in your practice. We will work across formats - not posing analogue and digital as a binary, but instead as an endless loop increasing access and shifting the values of cultural production. Self-publishing is intimately tied to liberation movements, and remains an act of political autonomy and personal survival. Against the threat of state censorship and amidst and the endless ping-pong of market co-option and criticality, publishing and collecting printed matter is also a fiercely defended labour of love. This class draws equally from Bay Area artist book and publishing histories, canon-breaking precedents by trans, queer, Black, Indigenous and POC publishers, and the exuberant resurgence of DIY and self-publishing and podcasting in contemporary art. Case studies, visiting artists and site visits will survey various art publishing and small press projects across the Bay Area and LA, Canada, and Mexico. Fine Arts Seminars are intended to broaden and clarify students' perspective on contemporary art practice. Each semester these seminars shift in focus and subject matter. Seminars may concentrate on art from the perspectives of art history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and so forth, or may take the form of a discipline-based critique focusing on the history, theory, and practice of painting, sculpture, and photography, among others.
Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:
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