Charlotte Cullinan

In this course we consider art as – unfixed – about the un-foreseen, boundless, infinite, untold, fluctuant, iffy, incomputable and inestimable. Therefore the participants will refer to anything that appears in the studio during the three weeks – its arrangement, composition and ultimate archive.

The class is organised as a laboratory of inquiry centred round individual production, staged and perhaps restaged within the wider context of the group. This will be played out in the guise of a group exhibition at the end of the course, which deals with the interaction of artworks through a particular set of controls. Using exhibition as a process to show individual works, students will discover new narratives using redaction and collaborative editing processes that open up questions around production type. All the research will contribute to the conversation within an exhibition context that is un-foreseen – the possibility of movement and change being both implied and real.

There will be a special focus on painting. Beside emphasis on the use of impermanent materials such as paper, tape, plastic sheets, cardboard and other surfaces, students will also be assigned several projects using found images, photocopies, text, film etc. to develop the production of new ideas and approaches. This course will be supplemented with weekly presentations of contemporary artists’ works and interviews, as well as one-on-one critiques and group discussions.

The aim of this course is to test the validity of painting today and its potential meaning beyond its original flat surface.