We or I always want to create work that is beautiful and seductive. I believe that defining beauty or ugly is subjective because we all are from different background and have various perspective. One thing could be very beautiful in somewhere whereas it is seen as a ugly piece of junk in the other place. One might think my work is so ugly and the other could find beauty in it.
Course Description
This course is meant to be a space for you to examine and deepen your relationship to the field and your own practice through readings, discussions, and presentations. The readings are meant to expand your perspective on the field of jewelry and metalsmithing, to define its particularities and concerns in relation to the discourses of the contemporary art world.
Together we will explore a series of seminal theoretical texts, seeking ways to relate them to our own practice. Through these texts we will encounter a series of themes and historical perspectives that are crucial to the field of jewelry, while also delving into fields and areas of inquiry, that have not commonly been related to our field, but perhaps should or could be. Our aim is to get a historical and interdisciplinary perspective on where we are as artists/makers today, how we got here and where we could go from here. The course aims to bring up critical questions on why we make, whom we make for and the meaning of our practice beyond the studio and the jewelry and metals world.
This is a chance to practice your skills in connecting theory, reading and writing to your work and to build a vocabulary and ground of reference around your ideas, interests and intentions. It’s a chance to take part in an intense discourse around your field, which you might be asked to do many times in the future of your career.
The Wednesday meetings will adopt the form of a reading/talking circle. Your role in the group is important and the success of our conversations will be based on your participation and engagement. We will all take turns in presenting and leading the discussion and also examine what “research through practice” might mean for us, by exploring some ways of connecting theory and making.
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Soo Yeon, I agree with you in saying that defining beauty or ugly is subjective because we all come from different backgrounds and have different perspectives.
ReplyDeleteEven things as simple as an animal, a person might think dogs are ugly because they personally just don't like them and people who do like them, think they are beautiful.
My first art teacher used to say that you cant make anything beautiful if that´s all your trying to do, that you need to make a painting ugly before you make it beautiful. He would say "you have to drag it trough the dirt and and down into the gutters. Then you can bring it back up when it is time.
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