MIMIC

State Standard:

VA:Cr2.1.8a Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art-making or designing.

VA:Cn10.1.IIa Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore unfamiliar subjects through art making.


Assignment:

Mimic a behavior you have closely paid attention to and thoroughly researched through methods such as field notes, video, sound, drawing, and photo.


Students will turn in their field notes and research in

on their website along with their final documented

mimicry.


Workshops:

Bookbinding workshop for the field guide

Papier mache workshop for prop making

Basic Sewing and material workshop for costume

making

Video Documentation workshop

Photo Documentation Workshop

Sound Workshop

Zine Workshop


Artists:

• Nina Katchadourian

• Kallie Hancock

• Eduardo Navarro

• Bas Jan Ader

• Thomas Thwaites

Class Discussions

1. Absurdity

:ridiculously unreasonable, unsound or incongruous

:extremely silly or ridiculous

:dealing with the absurd

:Having not rationale or orderly relationships to human life


2. Mimic

:to imitate closely

:simulate

:impersonate

:a close copying

:To make something so that it resembles an existing thing.

:Suggests duplicating an original as nearly as possible


3. Affordances, Benefits, and Limitations of Mimicry

Morio Agata