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overview
Lesson 1 | Summary
Activity Pages
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lesson 1 | systems &
styles
activity | bodies as machines
In his clay works, artist Gabriel Orozco
brings together the physical process of working with the clay—the
molding and shaping—with the thinking or intellectual process
that goes into each shape and each object. Orozco says, “You
can have this mechanical quantity of clay and then my body can act
mechanically. For me it was very important for my body to become
a kind of organic machine of constant movement, doing almost a mechanical
movement with the clay—that constant. It was an activity that
needed some rhythm connected with the machine producing the clay,
bringing it to the table, and then myself doing it as a constant.
So in one day you can do a whole amount of hours, like a worker
doing a mechanical thing. And for me that was important. Not so
much one object, but more a kind of body machine doing this action
with the clay.” In works such as “Double
Tail” and “Palmplate
I” students can see Orozco's artistic philosophy exemplified.
Ask students to think of writing as a physical process, one that
reflects both the intellectual or thinking process, as well as the
physical act of writing. What are the physical elements that go
into writing and how do they contribute to the final work? Ask student
to think of their bodies as creative machines and to list all of
the physical elements of their writing process, i.e. what tools
they need, how they establish their working space, the physical
movement of their body as they write. Ask students to write a piece
that emphasizes or exaggerates those physical elements and incorporates
them as central aspects of the final work. Have students share their
final writing with the class and have other students identify the
different elements they have included. |
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the next activity for this lesson
Narrative Structures
The artists Matthew Ritchie and Jessica
Stockholder use narrative
as a structure or armature for their work as well as its inspirational
source. Students will explore these artists’ distinct approaches
to narrative and use images, objects, and writing to create their
own visual narratives.
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