Dessin (MA)

🌐 English version

Multimedia Research-based and Diasporic Art Practices

Enseignante : Christine Meisner

Based on the notion of drawing, this class extents the artistic practice into media like video, photography, text, music, sound or installation. Drawing is understood as a concept of thinking, as an attitude to approach reality through tracing the conscious and the unconscious. In that drawing can be a sole practice as a cartography, a discovery, an excavation, a diagram, as a document or a record. Much more it also can form the content and structure for other media combined or based on. In approaching and questioning knowledge, reflecting and ordering observations and implementing surveys into artistic language, this concept of drawing is very much connected to research-based art practice. The critical examination of history and present, the questioning of political systems and their implementations and the investigation and disclosure of social processes is understood as a basic approach to art production.

Beside the free choice of individual subject and medium, the comprehension of diasporic and migrant experience is a particular perspective in the student’s works. In this context we are discussing the history and present of transcultural movements. How can individual biographies of intertwinement and resistance be translated into an artistic practice against the background of discourse ideologies? Roots, paths traveled, rights of abode and home, regimes of exclusion and inclusion, memories and the politics of remembrance are among the topics we explore in this class.

In-depth individual exchange and examination of each student’s art project. Regular individual meetings and occasionally group discussions. Development of an artwork within the timeframe of M1 and M2. Students should be able to speak and understand English on a basic level.