Pool 9: Art & Time 

Nummer und TypMFA-MFA-Po00.23H.009 / Moduldurchführung
ModulPool: 
VeranstalterDepartement Fine Arts
LeitungCarissa Rodriguez
Anzahl Teilnehmendemaximal 17
ECTS3 Credits
VoraussetzungenCourse language: English
LehrformSeminar
ZielgruppenMA Fine Arts students only
Open for exchange students
Lernziele / Kompetenzen
  • To explore various concepts of time (historically and cross-culturally) and gain an understanding of time as a social construct that shapes everyday life
  • To gain exposure to the work of artists who deal with time or use it as an artistic tool
  • To question accepted notions of time and experiment with artistic methods
  • To visit sites of production to observe their temporalities and apply this to artistic thinking and creating
InhalteIn the pool seminar “Art and Time” we explore time as a social construct and examine the ways in which our lives and bodies have come to be organized according to it. We will immerse ourselves in the work of artists, writers, filmmakers and revolutionaries who have worked with or against various concepts of time to give it form or reclaim it by other means. We will question labor time as it relates to productivity in our own experiences as workers and artists. As well we will unpack notions of the biological clock as a gendered form of control. We will examine the origins of society’s fetish for speed and creative attempts to stop time or slow it down.

Through field trips across the city, the class will investigate sites of “factory time”, “train time”, “reproductive time”, among other forms. We will meet with artists who have used time as an artistic tool and experiment with interventions in time through group exercises. An important feature of the course is to look closely at the historical transition from analog to digital and consider how this shift has impacted our understanding of what it means be human today– in synch and on time.


About the lecturer:

Carissa Rodriguez (US, born 1970 in New York City) lives and works in New York City. Solo institutional exhibitions include John Young Museum of Art, Honolulu (2021), The Art Institute of Chicago (2020), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2019), MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2018), SculptureCenter, New York (2018), and the Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2015). Rodriguez participated in the Whitney Biennials of 2014 and 2019. She holds a BA in Literature from Eugene Lang College at The New School, New York (1994), and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (2001–2). She was a core member of Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York from 2004 to 2015. Rodriguez is a Lecturer at Harvard University in the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies. Her first institutional solo exhibition in Europe will open in 2024 at Kunstverein Munich, Germany.
Bibliographie / LiteraturWill be handed out during the course.
Leistungsnachweis / TestatanforderungMandatory attendance (minimum 80%); active participation
TermineTime: 09:00 - 17:00 o'clock

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