PGFA
5300

Advanced Practice: 3D Methods

Parsons School of Design: School of Art, Media, and Tech

Non-Liberal Arts
Undergraduate Course
Graduate Course
Degree Students (with Restrictions)
Adv Practice: Slippages
Spring 2025
Taught By: Catherine Telford Keogh
Section: A

CRN: 1944

Credits: 3

Slippages invite shifts between categories, meanings, and material states, unraveling expectations and opening pathways to new effects. In this studio course, we will explore the significance of relinquishing control, engaging with material processes that extend beyond our intentions, and embracing improvisation and responsiveness as foundational approaches to making. Students will investigate the physical and formal properties of materials alongside their historical, socio-political, bodily, and ecological dimensions, understanding them as interconnected systems. This inquiry will take shape through hands-on sculptural practices—including casting, metalwork, and assemblage—alongside other forms of material alchemy, such as cooking and composting. The course will delve into assemblage theory and philosophies of materiality from thinkers like Jack Halberstam, Jane Bennett, Mel Y. Chen, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, and Jasbir Puar, in conjunction with critical art discourses on sculpture and formlessness to deepen material investigations. We will contextualize projects through discussions of contemporary artists such as Carl Chang, Dora Budor, Dieter Roth, Kara Walker, Helen Marten, Lygia Clark, Robert Morris, Delcy Morelos, Mark Lecky, Carolyn Lazard, Eva Hesse, and Jack Whitten, among others. Throughout the semester, we will examine the limits of representation and explore what emerges through experimentation and abstraction, considering the capacity of artworks to act, decay, affect, evolve, or transform.

Open to: All university graduate and upper-level undergraduate students; some seats reserved for MFA and BFA Fine Arts Students. Pre-requisite: Completion of the E4 Wood Tier 1 Orientation.

College: Parsons School of Design (PS)

Department: School of Art, Media, and Tech (AMT)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Studio (S)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 12

Repeat Limit: 8

Add/Drop Deadline: February 3, 2025 (Monday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 15, 2025 (Tuesday)

Seats Available: No

Status: Waitlist*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 7:40am EST 12/13/2024

Meeting Info:
Days: Thursday
Times: 12:10pm - 2:50pm
Building: Parsons East 25 E13th
Room: 502
Date Range: 1/23/2025 - 5/8/2025