Is there an art piece or experience that has had a profound impact on you or your life?
What or who makes Art valuable?
What aspects of Art-Making do you enjoy?
Some thoughts about the purpose of art pulled from the internet:
for fun and adventure; building bridges between ourselves and the rest of humanity; reuniting and recording fragments of thought, feeling, and memory; and saying things that we can't express in any other way
By drawing something, an early human could make another human remember something. Various forms of drawing, painting, and other visual depictions almost certainly facilitated communication and education among early humans
Art is a way to express our emotions and feelings. It can be used to communicate ideas and thoughts; it can be used as a tool for self-expression, used as a form of therapy etc
Below are some of the reasons why we make art culturally:
How do these show up in ways we experience in our lives?
+ To form part of a ritual, ceremony, or cultural tradition.
+ To practice faith in a more tangible way.
+ To record history.
+ To teach something as an alternative to verbal or written methods.
+ To tell a story.
Thoughts from a few professional art makers:
Gina Gibney (Dancer/Choreographer): I make art for a few reasons. In life, we experience so much fragmentation of thought and feeling. For me, creating art brings things back together.
Pete Doctor (Pixar, Film Director): On the surface, our films are about toys, monsters, fish, or robots; at a foundational level they’re about very universal things: our own struggles with mortality, loss, and defining who we are in the world.
Kwame Dawes (Poet): I write in what is probably a vain effort to somehow control the world in which I live, recreating it in a manner that satisfies my sense of what the world should look like and be like.
KRS-One (MC): Hip hop is the opposite of technology. Hip hop is what the human body does: Breaking, DJing, graffiti writing. The human body breakdances, you can’t take that away. DJing is not technology; it’s human intelligence over technology: cutting, mixing, scratching. It’s physical. The manipulation of technology is what humans do, that’s art.
Main tasks for this session:
Conversation about this residency
Collaborative Art Game
Initial Online Survey
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