Art (Fine arts, Performing arts)

Byrnes is a visual artist whose work encompasses traditional and contemporary forms and practices, including sculpture, multimedia installation, radio broadcasts, writing, and curatorial projects. As a visiting artist Byrnes will share with our class several of her recent public art projects that include multiple models for an art whose public strategies of engagement are an important part of its aesthetic language. The social movements of the 1960s and 70s led to the emergence of performance art and installation art, centering on process and site-specificity. Feminist artists led the practice of art based in social interaction, identified as “community,” “collaborative,” “participatory,” “dialogic,” and “public” art. READ and briefly summarize the attached article Sweeping Exchanges by Lucy Lippard, arts writer, curator and activist. This article gives additional historical perspective and context to current practices and concerns in feminism and socially engaged art. SELECT ONE OF SUSAN BYRNES’S PUBLIC WORKS: name and describe the work; and discuss how this work promoted an exchange of ideas, experiences and collaborations. What is the role of the artist in the artistic process? Who are her collaborators and to what extent does their participation and interaction determine the outcome of the project. Is “public” a qualifying description of place, ownership or access? Byrnes is a visual artist whose work encompasses traditional and contemporary forms and practices, including sculpture, multimedia installation, radio broadcasts, writing, and curatorial projects. As a visiting artist Byrnes will share with our class several of her recent public art projects that include multiple models for an art whose public strategies of engagement are an important part of its aesthetic language. The social movements of the 1960s and 70s led to the emergence of performance art and installation art, centering on process and site-specificity. Feminist artists led the practice of art based in social interaction, identified as “community,” “collaborative,” “participatory,” “dialogic,” and “public” art. READ and briefly summarize the attached article Sweeping Exchanges by Lucy Lippard, arts writer, curator and activist. This article gives additional historical perspective and context to current practices and concerns in feminism and socially engaged art. SELECT ONE OF SUSAN BYRNES’S PUBLIC WORKS: name and describe the work; and discuss how this work promoted an exchange of ideas, experiences and collaborations. What is the role of the artist in the artistic process? Who are her collaborators and to what extent does their participation and interaction determine the outcome of the project. Is “public” a qualifying description of place, ownership or access?