Assemblage Art and Ecological Practice
Started 2 Mar 2024
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Full course description
Location: Glasgow School of Art, Stow Building
Date & Times: Saturday 2nd, 9th, 16th, & 23rd of March, 2024
In-person/Hybrid/Asynchronous
Fully funded places are available for Scottish residents. Please use the code 7VXOYB if you are resident in Scotland. Please note, you will be asked to confirm your Postcode upon registration.
What are we going to do with all of this stuff? We live in a world over-full with objects and materials, but more is made everyday. Many artists and creative practitioners are committed to sustainability, but find it difficult to find and use materials that are both sustainable and affordable. Join us for a short course on assemblage-art, where we will experiment with a variety of sustainable methods for art production, using gathered, re-used, and sustainable materials. This course has been designed to help artists give closer attention to waste and throwaway materials through an experimental, conceptual, and improvisational approach to assemblage. Open to all artists resident in Scotland, this course will help students develop a sustainable material practice. All participating students will have the opportunity to share their work in an exhibition at Glasgow School of Art.
Overview
Building on historical and political usages of assemblage in art practice this course addresses sustainability and materiality in developing ethical approaches to art practice in light of the climate emergency. We will work to create heightened attention to the various materialities and qualities of waste by creating sculptural assemblages with found and gathered materials. We will critically assess creative outcomes alongside our experiences with the materials themselves. Through a variety of learning styles including practical workshops, lectures and conversations we will develop together a small body of work of exhibition standard to a public audience.
Aims
- To increase knowledge of sustainable approaches to art making.
- To engage in theoretical, philosophical and historical discourse about the practical, conceptual and political potential of assemblage.
- To introduce low / no-cost materials for art making.
- To work together to produce collaborative exhibition strategies.
Outcomes
- Participants will re-contextualise found and gathered materials in an experimental approach to assemblage art.
- Participants will engage with a variety of learning styles to enhance knowledge of best material practice in the anthropocene era.
- Participants will work together to create a collaborative exhibition.