"Create a work about secrets" (00:04:19)
2005
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chose "Create a work about secrets" in the themes listed below.
(December 2005)
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Multiple Choice
Multiple Choice: Select from one of the following assignments
(due after the Christmas break)
Create a work from found images and found words or lost images and lost words
Create a work about secrets.
Create a work that plays with fragility and failure.
Create a work that does not rely on sight.
Create a work which can be re-constructed or reproduced by others.
Create a portrait of Truth and Beauty.
Create a work that destroys all notions of Truth and Beauty.
Create a work of alchemy by totally transforming an object.
If as Ad Reinhard says "Any meaning demeans", then create a work about nothing.
If as Joseph Beuys suggests, the revolution is us, then portray your revolution.
If we live in a world that is screaming then create a work that whispers.
If as Andy Warhol once said "I don't know where the artificial stops and the real begins."
Create a work about that border or membrane in between.
If I live in a very different galaxy than you do, then build a window so I can look into your galaxy.
Leave behind a visible trace or residue from a direct action to let us bare witness to what we have missed.
Take a space and make it a place.
Take the ordinary and make it extraordinary.