Trace: Experimental “Drawing"
Experiencing the Force of a Curriculum Assemblage
Intertwine metaphors and methods to construct comprehensive bricolage curriculum, an assemblage, a constellations of qualities, ideas and objects that introduce students to strategies for experiencing, interpreting, enjoying and making contemporary culture.
Can drawing be useful if the artist wants to document, not only everyday visual reality, but also more elusive things such as the passing of time, internal emotional states, the detritus of everyday life, or the mental residues of living in a media saturated society?
Continuing a series of presentations and articles on re-imagining the content of everyday art education—Postmodern Principles, Principles of Possibility, New School Art Styles, Evocative & Provocative Pedagogy, Bricolage Curriculum—this presentation addresses the need for curriculum frameworks that adequately prepare students for understanding 21st century art and culture.
Project examples for this presentation are drawn from the Spiral Workshop theme group, Trace: Experimental Drawing.
The presentation includes a wide range of projects including Surrealist gaming, drawing with Durer-like attention to detail, photography as drawing with light, temporary urban installations, and self-portraits as GIF animations.
TRACE: Part 1
Part 1 explores the use of the terms
Assemblage Curriculum
Bricolage Curriculum
Comprehensive Curriculum
to articulate goals for 21st century Art Education.
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TRACE: Part 2
Part 1 introduces the Spiral Workshop, Trace: Experimental Drawing Group and features the projects, related artists and conceptual ideas:
Surrealist Seeing Into: Inked String
Mystic Writing Pad: Freud and the Unconscious Mind
Indexical Drawing
Hair Today Trace
Semiotics: How Meaning Is Made
Traces of Light: a Photography Project
Leave a Trace: Detournement
Rauschenberg Erases DeKooning
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TRACE: Part 3
Part 3 continues with more Spiral Workshop, Trace: Experimental Drawing Group projects and ideas:
Surrealist Seeing Into: Inked String
Leave No Trace
Always a Trace
Hair Today Trace
Just Tracers
Always Already
Trace in Motion
The presentation concludes showing how the Trace: Experimental Drawing group exemplifies the ideas and values of 21st Century assemblage, bricolage and comprehensive curriculum.
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