Render is offering a unique opportunity for students to work with innovative UK artist collective Proboscis in a distinct studio/seminar setting. The course will introduce students to contemporary approaches to collecting and curating through learning by doing. Students will be introduced to techniques (anarchaeology, public authoring) and tools (Diffusion eBooks, StoryCubes, podcasting) used and developed by Proboscis. The goal of the course will be to work both individually and collectively in excavating narratives of people, places, events and artefacts and creating new artefacts (using new and old media tools) that will contribute to an exhibition at the end of the course in the Render exhibition space (ECH1239). Site visits, film screenings, audio presentations and multimedia authoring will all be involved. This unique project has been generously supported by the J.W. Graham Trust.
Reading List
- Species of Spaces, Georges Perec
- The Rings of Saturn, WG Sebald
- Pandaemonium, Humphrey Jennings
- Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin
- Walter Benjamin’s Archive (edited by Esther Leslie)
- ‘Of Exactitude in Science’ in A Universal History of Infamy, Jorge Luis Borges
- Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges
- Robinson in Space, Patrick Keiller
Audio & Video/Film List
- An Idea of North (Solitudes), Glenn Gould
- Listen to Britain, Humphrey Jennings
- Blue, Derek Jarman
- London & Robinson in Space, Patrick Keiller
- Day of the Dead, Charles & Ray Eames
- Folkestone Obscura, Stephen Connolly
