FA315 ADVANCED STUDIO

"Proposal for Naturkunde Museum"

After we were offered a private tour of Berlin's Museum of Natural History, students were asked to develop a site-specific art project for the museum in the form of a public art competition poster (format A0). The "sky was the limit" for budget, scale, and thematic direction.

"Reaction"

After BCB was forced to move classes online this semester students were asked to "react" as artists to the new challenges that we all faced for the first time, especially the strange and unexpected need to quarantine.

Vero Risnovska, "Memory of 10 Hours of Love"

Jessie Kao, "Un-screentime with Jessie"

Nell Dreyfus, "GRASS"

Joey Walsh, "Look At Me In My Space"

Claire Uicker, "Repurposed Painter Keys"

Final Projects

The following final projects have been initiated by the students of FA315 with communal and individual feedback and assistance as needed. Our interest to share this production through this platform is a unique alternative to the traditional end of semester: Open Studios

"10 Hours of Love"

For their first assignment of the semester, students in this Advanced Studio course were given the task of taking the average expected homework time (10 hours weekly for 8 ECTS credit) and "do what they love" for 10 hours, sharing their results in class.

"Transformations"

As a continued response to our absurd limitations as artists under quarantine, we ask: what happens when we take everyday found objects lying around the house and allow them to be transformed into some new experience?

Love is demonstrated in the physicality of our environments. We as humans like to be fooled with signs and imaginaries we perceive to be real, but it is only our physical Umwelt in which our realities can be shared and justified. 'I' is the densest point in the web of everything I am surrounded by. I decide to be surrounded by tactile experience of other bodies.

Since arriving home to my New York City apartment from Berlin I have made a small series of short films surrounding the idea of isolation. With the challenge of limiting space, keeping up with social distancing, and limited material my sister Lola goes to the beach and tries to relax amidst the chaos.

"Un-screentime with Jessie" is a paper doll set designed to tackle one of the major problems during the Covid-19 lock-down, excessive screen time. The doll set is made to create contact while social distancing and bring back childhood nostalgia. As a pdf it may be downloaded, printed and constructed from anywhere in the world.

While being stuck at home I have explored the potential for domestic tools to be used in the creative process. I took these images using the scanner from my home printer. Movement and activation has played a role in the distortion of these images, shifting the materials of my body, yarn, and blades of grass, to take on a form of their own. I am drawn, particularly in these surreal times, to the transformation and re-formation of the mundane.

Finn McMurray, "Scan Images"

Phoenix Adler

Stella Burke

Fish Chiu

Nell Dreyfus

Stella Gatti

Jessie Kao

Finn McMurray

Evelyn Morrison

Vero Risnovska

Claire Uicker

Joey Walsh

Anna Zakelj

In this video I take an everyday object, a comb, and use it in an unconventional way by brushing the grass. This is a reflection on self-care in a time of confusion. This video is also meant to be visually satisfying and soothing.

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STUDIO

With "Look At Me In My Space" I attempted to create a room in which the viewer is lost in. I wanted to create a sense of depth by using linear perspective. Every piece incorporated into the work is hand cut because I felt as if detail was essential to create the relationship I was looking for between the viewer and the piece.

Evelyn Morrison, "Level 0"

A recording of the sound of a ceramic teapot takes on an interest in becoming rhythmic, exploring the genre of electronic music. A sample is modulated in 10 different ways (unaltered at the beginning of the track).

Fish Chiu, "In Transit"

Anna Zakelj, "Skin"
Pantyhose, plumbers tape, duct tape, thread, push pins

Anna Zakelj, "Breaking"
Plaster, duct tape, straight pins

Joey Walsh, "Backseat Love"

"Steno Book Playboy"

Joey Walsh, "Harlem 2020"

Finn McMurray, "Spring Shirt Collages"

To me, the word "liminal" is defined by the characteristics of sound. The sound of fastening your seat belts, the sound of public announcements, and the sound of distant chatters. To be in transit is to be in between two spaces. For my final project, I gathered samples during my travel home from Germany to Taiwan. These samples are then modulated in ways to create an atmosphere, a composition that defines the feeling of being in-between spaces.

Stella Gatti, "Lola Escapes"

Anna Zakelj, "Archetype"
Film on pantyhose installation
(with performance by Vero Risnovska)

Phoenix Adler, "How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed?"

Stella Gatti, "Lola Goes To The Beach"

A work in and of quarantine, level 0 seeks to explore the heightened and pervasive experience of isolation, constraint and the ensuing, potentially volatile, realm of reflection.

Stella Burke, "Grandpa in Mask"
Oil on canvas

Stella Burke, "Claire in Mask with Zip-lock of Placenta"
Oil on canvas

Claire Uicker, "Coming Off Cold"
Plaster, air-dry clay, Photoshop

Sick Woman Theory is an insistence that most modes of political protest are internalized, lived, embodied, suffering, and no doubt invisible. Sick Woman Theory redefines existence in a body as something that is primarily and always vulnerable, following from Judith Butler’s work on precarity and resistance. Sick Woman Theory maintains that the body and mind are sensitive and reactive to regimes of oppression – particularly our current regime of neoliberal, white-supremacist, imperial-capitalist, cis-hetero-patriarchy. It is that all of our bodies and minds carry the historical trauma of this, that it is the world itself that is making and keeping us sick. ~ Johanna Hedva

These collage images are a humorous reflection of the time we are in. I tried to imagine what the future of vacationing may look like.

Joey Walsh, "Steno Book Playboy"

Originally I wanted my sculpted pieces to look as though they were coming out of one of my illustrations. But after some work-shopping it felt like there was more power in making this a self portrait. The Intention is to show the transition from one state to the next by literally showing a transition from 2D to 3D art. I want to show this by juxtaposing a harsh almost calcified exposure of the senses when first entering an altered space to a free and fluid familiar space.

These images are collages that I made by combining my own photos with images from the internet. During this time I have found a lot of comfort from searching the internet and looking at the various things you can buy online. I wanted to present these objects in a playful way that also reflected my state of mind.