ART / FILM Art390 / Film379, Visual Memoir
This course explores strategies of visual memoir and art practice. Conducted as a studio basedseminar, the course will explore the use of archives in constructing real and fictive narratives
across a variety of disciplines. Participants create and develop autobiographies, biographies of
fiction-based projects tailored to their own work (in art, music, performance, literature, dance,
etc.) around Natalie Goldberg’s concept that “our lives are at once ordinary and
mythical.” Rooted in the instructor’s experience with the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion
project, students will explore the construction of visual text in the creation of communal and
individual memory. The course will examine the works of contemporary artists who draw from
the family album whether inherited or found, to call into question identity, biography, visual
literacy, truth and representation. Lab/Materials fee: $25. Thomas Allen Harris
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