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, October 31, 2013

Prompt 7: MY PSYCHIC ATLAS

Kerstin Bratsch is a New York and German based artist who works in painting, sculpture, installation, design and performance. Her practice is as much about making an exhibition - designing and installing an exhibition as a project -- as it is about creating individual works.









Bratsch received her MFA from Columbia in 2007. While at Columbia she wrote an artists statement titled "My Psychic Atlas" which probes and distills what is closest to her in her work - and asks the very tough question of herself in her practice - what is it that I really care about and commit myself to as an artist? 

Read Kerstin's Psychic Atlas here. 

For Prompt 7, write your own Psychic Atlas. This can be in list form, as Kerstin Bratsch did - or in paragraph form, or script, or whatever road the project takes you. The important thing to focus on is the question: between me and me, what is my work? 

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