Memory
In this unit, we will be focusing on the idea of memory.
Main Essential Question:
What is memory and how can we relive it and share it through incorporating alternative experiences in our art?
Additional Essential Questions:
Main Essential Question:
What is memory and how can we relive it and share it through incorporating alternative experiences in our art?
Additional Essential Questions:
- What qualities does a memory have?
- How do artists use memory as a way to convey meaning in their work?
- What is the difference between history and memory?
- How does how we experience memory (in our head, through film/photos, orally, sensorially, etc.) change its meaning?
- How can I use my artistic choices to convey meaning (through memory)?
- How can I work alternatively to help convey that meaning?
- How do the 5+ senses trigger memory?
- How does photography construct meaning and memory?
- Who defines what is remembered correctly?
- Why are memories important?
- Are memories accurate? Do they change?
- How are memories constructed?
Artists
We've looked at Susan Rothenberg, Mike Kelley, Hiroshi Sugimoto. Here's the link to the videos:
art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s3/memory/
art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s3/memory/
Memory Recreation project
We will brainstorm about memories in a variety of ways in class (frayer models, the definition of memory, mind maps and visual recreations of particular memories, etc.) (see below for handouts)
For your first project in this unit, you will create a piece that combines three or more photos to convey a memory, working outside of the rectangular frame. See the details below
For your first project in this unit, you will create a piece that combines three or more photos to convey a memory, working outside of the rectangular frame. See the details below
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Previous student examples.
Please note that the grey box around them is the wall they are posted on. They are not in a rectangular frame!