Artists have always taken the work of others as a jumping-off point for their own ideas. Sometimes they respond to existing work in order to honor the original, and sometimes they do so in order to critique it. Artworks can be in conversation with other works across time and across cultures, and artists can use echoes from the past to reinforce the meaning of their own works. This course will look at works by filmmakers and artists in other media who choose to create art that builds on pre-existing work. We’ll explore the work of artists who directly engage with and speak to other films and artists through their own work, examining how artists transform, expand upon, and dialog with the original through their own works. Artists whose work we will look at include Paul Preciado, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, George Kuchar, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Alee Peoples, Mona Varichon, Martine Syms, Assia Djebar, and Tsai Ming-liang, among others. Students in this course will create a short video that is engaged in a creative dialog with a work by another artist, as well as conducting a research project and giving a presentation exploring how an artist of their choice used the work of another to scaffold their own ideas.

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