Methodologies of Artistic Practice Today

Instructor: Mohammad Salemy Date & Time: Thursdays, October 4, 11, 18, 25, November 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 10 AM EST - 12:30 PM EST

DESCRIPTION Organized exclusively for the Digital Earth Residency Program, this artistic practice seminar will be hosted by Mohammad Salemy and Moses Serubiri. It will feature seven artists and art professionals (Marwa Arsanios, Stephanie Bailey, Kimberly Bradly, Hugo Canoilas, Marina Fokidis, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Ahmet Ogut) who have made a major contribution to art and culture in the last five years. The seminar will concentrate on each individual’s specific methodologies and career track. Through researching, understanding and articulating the work of these individuals, Digital Earth residents will develop a group exhibition from concept to implementation featuring works by themselves or other artists to be exhibited online.

 

October 4: Mohammad Salemy & Moses Serubiri /// Art, knowledge, information, poetry & language // Networks & Production of Contemporary Art

By looking at two recent texts written for exhibition catalogues, Mohammad’s presentation concentrates not only on the possible functions of art in the 21st century, but it develop an approach to understand the poetics of research-based artistic practice.
Moses’ presentation engages the networks of art making, and art production, concerning contemporary art in Africa. He will also touch on recent debates and historical arguments about art production, and networks of African artists.

 

October 11: Marina Fokidis /// The Living Together and its Entanglements / Curatorial Practice as a Continuous State of Human Encounter

How can one describe the space, which an event an exhibition-a biennial- or a periodical publication occupy?
Can geographical and territorial distinctions be still accurate to describe this space? Or do distinctions like these faction just as pure allegories?
Does the question of local and world-while, have any meaning in the era of digital mediation and social media?

 

October 18: Stephanie Bailey /// A World Affair

This text is an introduction into what has been an ongoing study into the dynamics of the art world industrial complex, which takes into account my position as both complicit participant and professed infiltrator in the field.

 

October 25: Kimberly Bradly /// Interpreting an artist and her oeuvre: methodologies and processes

 

November 1: Marwa Arsanios /// The Cinematic As a Research Tool

In this session we will look at the ways cinematic tools, apparatus and methodologies can be used within research, which in its turn can be translated into a work through montage.

 

November 8: Navine G. Khan-Dossos /// Getting Things Unfolded

A seminar using two texts that Navine G. Khan-Dossos considers crucial to her practice, the session will explore ideas around Aniconism, practice as meditation and mediation, and the influence of Islamic Art on the artist’s thinking. She will focus on the importance of ‘doing’ as an individual but also the value of working in the multitude.

 

November 15: Hugo Canoilas /// Under the volcano experience – working methodology on an eight-year-long work

“I will make a description and self-reflexion on how different typologies of work come together in an expanded cinema and meta-film project.
This analysis raises an ethics of work, ideas about art, society, and all he tangibilities attached to a work of such scale as Under the volcano was.”

 

November 22: Ahmet Ogut /// Short-Term, Long-Term, Life-Time

Ahmet Öğüt will talk about a selection of his early works up until the present day, some of them are stolen, censored, attacked or appropriated, as well as he will give an introduction into his overall practice from interventions to long term projects.

 

November 29: Mohammad Salemy & Moses Serubiri

 

Image credit: Flux Year Box 2, c.1967, a Flux box edited and produced by George Maciunas, containing works by many early Fluxus artists.