IPHOT 3275 Contemporary Practices and the Archive
This studio course provides a hands-on approach to investigating the relationship between contemporary art practices and institutional archives. Using local and online archive collections as our sites of inquiry, this course will explore how contemporary artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, video, and installation are mining the archive to trace, inscribe, contest, or retrace history, memory, and identity as art practices. This course will decenter whiteness and decolonize the structure of institutional archives to ethically include the lives and experiences of marginalized populations through visual and textual research. Students will present their final self-published project in visual, textual, or a combination of the two reflecting their chosen area of archival study.