CDP: Research Studies
Course Description
Summary
This course utilizes a seminar and workshop format focusing on conceptual, relational, and material frameworks of the choreographic. Through shaping a bibliographic course archive, we will source current developments within the field of contemporary art making. The class investigations, assignments and discussions will yield imaginative and experimental directions for student’s development towards aesthetic projects, including BFA senior thesis works. We will consider the varied approaches that artists utilize, acknowledging that experience and creative acts are appearing and getting made within the world around us all the time. This course will unfold through multiple modes of learning and connection that include viewings, discussions, individual and group projects as well as reading and written assignments. Students will be encouraged to locate and deepen a series of practices that yield generative modes of introspection and expression.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to identify different methodologies and approaches to art making and creative practice.
- Students will broaden the ways that they consider their own creative research.
- Students will compile and assemble a citational and bibliographic resource workbook, locating and archiving artists, scholars and activists that serve to accompany and activate their research.
- Students will be able to give and receive critical feedback both in writing and verbally.