ARTS 290 Art Outside the Bounds: Wanlass Artists in Residence
Art Outside the Box presents the opportunity to collaborate with renowned artist Candice Lin, the 2018/19 Wanlass Artist-in-Residence. Interspecies Entanglements in the Queen’s Closet is a course seeking a non-alienated relationship to ourselves, our surroundings, and the materials we use in making art. We will drink bacteria and the essence of stones and grind pigments from insects and bones. We will grow mushrooms from our urine, experience the sexuality of plants, and will transform earth into clay. In forging a new relationship with our materials, we will read and discuss notions of animacy and mattering. We will consider the history of objects, plants, and animals in relationship to colonialism, slavery, and globalization. We will learn about folk knowledge and its relationship to feminism, witchcraft, and domestic labor. This class will draw upon historical texts relating to alchemy and science, medicine, herbalism, cookbooks, and 19th-early 20th century managerial handbooks. It will have a strong reading and writing component that accompanies the hands-on experimentation with and making of materials.
Previous Wanlass Artists-in-Residence include: Lucky Dragons, CamLab, Rafa Esparza and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle.