In just less than three weeks I’m mentoring two online ART workshops.
One runs for 4 weeks and is aimed at teachers new to the IBDP visual arts programme.
Triple A Learning IB Blogs
May 10, 2012
November 18, 2011
ARTISTS USING ART: a three week workshop (February 2012)
I have been fascinated by the way that art inspires, influences or informs other art for many years. There are of course many examples of this throughout history, and it goes on today, under a variety of names – re-contextualization, reinterpretation, pastiche, transcription, homage, appropriation, parody etc.
It’s an assignment I occasionally set my students, because it involves things that I think will benefit them – for example, I ask them to to investigate art (usually from different times and cultures), find something that interests them, and then make an accurate study but with a creative twist.
June 5, 2011
TRANSCRIPTION (AGAIN)
There I was, quietly eating my cornflakes in this morning’s Sunday sunshine, reading the Sunday Times magazine, idly watching the labrador putting up with two overly affectionate kittens, when I came across still more examples of art imitating art – or transcribing art, anyway.
Back in March 2010 I posted a blog entry something a long the lines of “you can appropriate – but you’d better not plagiarize!” and have revisited the homage, appropriation, transcription, reinterpretation etc theme regularly since then.
April 7, 2011
March 2, 2010
Appropriation and assessment
YOU CAN COPY – BUT YOU’D BETTER NOT PLAGIARIZE!
Plagiarism is, of course a real and constant concern. But in art is gets a little complicated.
March 1, 2010
Cultural ‘authenticity’ and the Olympics
Issues of cultural appropriation and ownership were apparent in the recent 2010 Olympic ice dancing event that required couples to perform a ‘folk dance’ originating from any culture. These dances were rife with material for discussion by budding anthropologists!
By now, the most infamous example from this particular sports event is that of the Russian figure skaters, Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, who performed a ‘folk dance’ that represented their interpretation of an aspect of Australian Aboriginal culture (see the story). Their show offended, outraged and caused a certain amount of laughter across the globe as they donned Disney-like outfits that were a clear example of misguided appropriation. This took Hobsbawm’s idea of reinventing traditions to another level!
