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.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

What Happens? (JW)























I'm thinking about consumer culture, working with and constructing receipts and combinations of products. I'm wondering, can mundane mass consumer goods be reanimated to say something else? What do they say about us? Can new meaning be imposed?

I was talking with a friend of mine about this and he mentioned that no matter what you buy with condoms it always comes out weird. Seemingly inane products mindlessly placed next to each other seem to draw expansive narratives.
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