Introductions

INTRODUCTIONS
Answer introductory questions, due on Friday March 5, 7pm (NYC)

Present yourself online to each other and to your professor — answer these questions:

1. In what city are you located?

2. What media / discipline do you consider your primary mode of expression?

3. If applicable, what other disciplines / media do you work in?

4. Are there any media / discipline that you are interested in, but haven’t yet tried?

5. What do you consider your best creative workspace? (Studio/ office/ desk/ kitchen/ park/ other). Please include secondary workspaces too, if any exist.

6. What artists have inspired you, recently or in a distant past time? (Of any discipline)

7. What current or recent events (personal, local, national, worldwide) have affected you? Please pick at least one event affecting you positively, and one affecting you negatively. Specify which is which. (Note: You can pick more than one in each of the positive/ negative categories, if you feel inclined to do so, but you need to substantiate at least one in each category)

8. Please provide an image of yourself.

9. In a maximum of 3 sentences, please describe why you chose this class.

10. Please share one image of the area where you will be located during the course. This can be an image of your house/ apartment/ studio (interior/ exterior), or street, neighborhood, city. A simple snapshot is sufficient. It should give us a strong idea of a piece of your local environment.

11. Provide a one-line caption of your choice for this photo. (Some examples: Corner store that I frequent everyday; Studio where I work and share with a friend; Apartment where I live/ study/ work alone or with 5 cats and two family members; Main street of the city where I live and shop, and also near where I grew up; my favorite apartment corner, and so on)

12. What is an area (accessible to you) that you are curious about? (one real place, one virtual)

13. Add one media piece related to who you are and another related to maps or spaces (anything goes: drawing/ photo/ video/ audio/ btw 3-5 mins. max)- have a little fun.

PLEASE NOTE: .jpg and .png image files; mp3 audio files; .docx and .pdf files can all be uploaded in the online studio below. If you have a large file (over 10mb) please provide a direct link to a player or a cloud service. When providing cloud links, please be sure to make available to all without the need to login to the service.

DETAILED INFO FOR UPLOADING TO THE ONLINE STUDIO CAN BE FOUND HERE.

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j o h n r o s

26 February 2021 11:17am

my name is john ros and my preferred pronouns are they/them
https://johnros.com/

1. brooklyn, ny, us
2. installation
3. interested in investigating more performative elements, sound, and interventions beyond the gallery
4. nope
5. studio and home (couch or kitchen table)
6. agnes martin, vito acconci, adrian piper, pope.l, bruce nauman, bill traylor
7. positive — focused work in the studio, ongoing projects, etc.; negative — most everything in us politics: rise of white supremacy, supreme court, election madness, corporatism, capitalism… too much to list here
8. see attached
9. interested in learning more about social practice and how my ideas might bend in ways that connect to my broad range and different modes of working
10. see attached
11. my neighborhood… and my walk to and from the studio at least 5 days a week.
12. real: my neighborhood / virtual: i am not sure? i spend too much time in the virtual space as it is… maybe my virtual space would be a real space
13. see attached… both images of past work:

dust on a shelf – time drawing
apartment piece… more here

looking forward to the course!

Artist

tash kahn

28 February 2021 9:47am

Hello I’m Tash from south London
1. London, UK
2. Polaroids or concrete
3. Sculpture, painting, installation, photography
4. No
5. Kitchen table or bath
6. Robert Rauschenberg, Rachel Whiteread, Tal R
7. Positive: Covid; Negative: Covid
8. see attached
9.Art as activism has always interested me and I’d like to know more
10. see attached
11. A polaroid I took of a corner of my room in lockdown
12. All the areas I am curious about are not accessible to me – what goes on behind neighbours’ windows for instance
13. see attached (in order: me, an image of my space, a line drawing of that space cut up and collaged, aerial shot of my piece ‘Maybe I’m just a one-word kinda girl’

Natalia de Campos

3 March 2021 1:34pm

welcome everyone! Natalia here. My picture may not show for now– but happy to see you here. Awaiting one more post, and I will share some info about me. Look forward to seeing you on Saturday!

5 March 2021 4:30pm

Hello everyone! I am posting my answers. Look forward to one more of our class members to post as well.

New York
Performance, Text and Sound
Interactive Media (computer based and analog), theater, video, collage, objects, installation
Printmaking, watercolor
Office at home, floor in the studio, the city streets, the beach
Bjork (Music and experimentation), Lygia Clark (interactive art), Tadeusz Kantor (Theatre and sets), Richard Foreman (Writing, theater, sound)
POSITIVE: solidarity within the #BlackLivesMatter marches and events; solidarity with climate action movements, including Brazil’s Amazon Forest; learning from activists from all walks of life, majority of non-artists; NEGATIVE: growing bias and violence on words and actions online; holding back vaccine patents for financial gain
in blue, below
I want to share my experience with social engagement, and a life-long of multidisciplinary collaboration. It inspires me that people look at the current personal and world events to imagine new ways to engage with other fellow humans. I am very please with the studioELL platform’s vision and how it turned into a reality – it’s full of possibilities
second image below
My virtual studio during the pandemic and snowstorm
REAL: The ever-changing Lower East Side — where my studio is — I never get tired of it, it keeps surprising me – and it’s been hard hit by the pandemic.You see very wide economic disparities within the same few blocks. VIRTUAL: The different formats being explored for online connections with the real world during the pandemic.
About me: This audio piece: https://soundcloud.com/syncretic-pleasures/queima

This space below

Catherine Harrington

5 March 2021 5:13pm

Hello my name is Catherine and my preferred pronouns are she / her.

East London UK
mixed media – I have been moving around
still mixed
I would like to explore performance based works and making longer films
it is home-office or around the home (studio lost to covid)
Hans Haacke, Michael Rakowitz, Rebecca Horn, Feral Practice, Steve McQueen, Mierle Laderman Ukeles,
positive – (in my work as an architect) schools in Scotland – they are really pushing the boat out in educational and zero carbon ways and are so engaged! art work – have a few collaborative works planned which is great; negative – UK leaving EU, world pandemic plus lack of movement in personal life
see attached.
I want to learn how to better align my artwork re: social / political engagement and collaborative working; I have been involved in an art group researching social change and activism so this will proceed from that work (https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/art-activism-the-peer-led-research-group/); I want to develop / learn in a group setting
see attached
Pedestrian street near where I live – awash with “security” from CCTV
I have been curious about the railway arches / underpasses near me – place for temporary artwork? Also existing carpark in London used as backdrop for a virtual performance.
Chalk map – last week we were asked to make a map of our school and friends / We used to make barbecues / short film Visiting Each Other in Lockdown / Trees Talk – still from film

5 March 2021 5:40pm

Reply to Catherine Harrington

images here – 2 portraits / my neighbourhood street – see 11. / area accessible – Underpass / Virtual – carpark with virtual performance / see 13. chalk map of high school

5 March 2021 5:44pm

rest of 13. We used to make barbecues / short film Visiting Each Other in Lockdown / Trees Talk – still from film

5 March 2021 10:16pm

Hi Catherine, did you want to attach images? They didn’t come through on your post.

6 March 2021 5:05am

Reply to Natalia de Campos

hi Natalia
They are situated below in the 2 reply comments below my post. I had forgotten that with this website there is no editing of a post once sent. – so attached images in following messages.

6 March 2021 12:26pm

Thank you!