Hoarding Fever/Archive Fatigue (Studio Course)

AFVS 114 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

Why do we decide to keep things? What politics hide in taxonomy? How do citizenship, colonialism, and death relate to our stuff? And what’s the deal with Marie Kondo? 

This studio course will use the discourses around Archive and research based practice as a starting point for developing work in a range of media. We will look at existing archives, develop our own collections as a form of artistic practice, and destabilize the authority of archives by considering informal, queer, pathologized forms of collecting. The course will include discussions and readings; visits to local collections in and outside the museum; and ample studio time to work with raw and found materials, alongside obsessive investigations and meandering digressions. 

Course Notes

This is an introductory studio course available to all levels of experience open for grad students and undergraduates. Hoarders and non-hoarders are welcome!