FINAL ASSIGNMENT FOR ARTS OF NEW YORK CITY
Group assignment: 3 groups of 3, 1 group of 4
Each group will research one of the following art forms we studied:
- VISUAL ART (choose: installation, film/video, photography)
- DANCE
- MUSIC
- THEATER
ASSIGNMENT: Make an in-class presentation in either video or PPT to be presented in class on December 7 with written script to hand in to Professor (include credits for student participation.) Presentation to be 20 minutes long.
This presentation should –both in its FORM and its CONTENT — be subjective AND objective. I want to hear your voice (subjective) but also want the presentation to contain objective, researched information with sources sited.
It can be subjective in its style – put your own creative flare into the presentation; be artistic and also objective—include documentary elements, research, quotes from the readings, and facts (site sources).
Answer the following questions:
1)What is Art ?
What was your original definition of Art before this class?
Find/site definitions of Art by philosophers and artists.
Ask 5 random people “on the street” the question. See what they say.
2) How has your definition of Art changed as a result of this class?
What do you think it is now?
3) How do you define the art form you are assigned?
- VISUAL ART (chosen medium)
- DANCE
- MUSIC
- THEATER
Describe the art forms’ components, elements, structure, materials used….
What is dance? What is music? etc.
4) Select one artist we studied in your art form.
What is their definition of art, or their art form?
Where does this definition come from?
How do they express their aesthetic?
5) Show/describe the forms or modes of presentation your art form takes.
6) In what types of places, spaces, sites do you “happen to” or purposefully see/experience your art form in New York City? Give examples.
7) include credits
AMERICAN IDIOT ASSIGMENT
After listening to Green Day’s album “American Idiot” (2004) Write up list of song titles (see if you can look at the hand-written liner notes–there are interesting notes and clues there), what you think each song means/is about? how you might envision each song being enacted or staged? Who are the characters and what are the settings for the songs? Is there an overarching narrative or message for the entire album?
Metropolitan Museum Assignment
Artists are always trying to change our perspective. Their art is an attempt to get us to see and experience the world in new ways.
How did the Starn twins (Big Bambu), Katrin Sigurdardottir (Boiseries) and the contemporary photographers (Beyond Here and There show) change our perspective –on the city, on the museum, on definitions of art? What strategies did they use to alter our perception of time and/or space? What did we–the spectators–see anew as a result? Give at least one example from each artist/show.
