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