Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York

This course examines ways of looking and ways of seeing, both personally & professionally as artists and in a larger cultural context. Through field trips to contemporary art and other cultural sites, conversations with visiting critical thinkers and practicioners, readings, discussions, and visual & written responses, we will examine how we look, think, act, create and respond--critically questioning our own artistic practices and ways of looking at the world.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Prompt 1 (AY)



















Igloolik Isuma productions

Nunavut. Our land, 1995

Still from episode 8: Avamuktalk

Documenta 11


The image caught my attention out of a wall of postcards in a museum giftshop. As opposed to what I had just saw within the museum, there was a huge choice to be made here among hundreds of images arranged randomly and with no rank or immediate information. This image stood out to me because of the strong relation the caption plays to the image. The font and format show us it was part of a movie, never it’s own moment. And yet the punctuation and the figure’s gesture take up more time than a single still moment, they communicate the whole message slowly, they take up as long as it takes to read the words as they would be yelled. In this sense I feel the image is almost moving, or shimmering.

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