PGFA
5301

Advanced Practice: Time

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

Non-Liberal Arts
Undergraduate Course
Graduate Course
Degree Students (with Restrictions)
Adv Prac: Decolonize Time
Fall 2024
Taught By: Faculty TBA
Section: A

CRN: 9636

Credits: 3

Decolonize Time explores contemporary artists whose time-based works radically reflect on histories and cultures erased from the lands we live on, our current embodied socio-political conditions, and point us towards decolonial, ecofeminist futures. Focused on video, film, sound, and including performance, this course considers an array of artistic practices that center marginalized collective demands, shift into perspectives aligned with geological time scale, and keep time in decolonized tempos. Artists include Raven Chacon, Pauline Oliveros, Guadalupe Maravilla, Rena Anakwe, Sun Ra Arkestra, Yuki Kihara, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Thao Nguyen Phan, Zheng Bo, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Eglė Budvytytė, Karam Ghossein, Carlos Martiel, mayfield brooks, and Christopher Unpezverde Núñez. Students will generate time-based works that reference these artists’ frameworks while addressing students’ own pressing political questions. Readings include “Placing Time, Timing Space” by Rasheedah Phillips, “In the Wilds of Black Sound” by Anaïs Duplan, “Time and the Colonial State” by Meryem-Bahia Arfaoui, “Giving, Taking Notice” by Dylan Robinson, “Quantum Listening” by Pauline Oliveros, “Feminist, Queer, Crip” by Alison Kafer, and “The Dance That Makes You Vanish” by Rachmi Diyah Larasati. Students will learn the basics of Adobe Premiere and Audition to produce video and sound works.

Open to all university graduate and upper level undergraduate degree students. Some seats reserved for MFA and BFA Fine Arts Students.

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

Add/Drop Deadline: September 9, 2024 (Monday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: November 17, 2024 (Sunday)

Seats Available: Yes

* Seats available but reserved for a specific population.

Status: Open*

* 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: 6:18am EDT 3/19/2024

Meeting Info:
Days: Thursday
Times: 7:00pm - 9:40pm
Building: TBD
Room: TBD
Date Range: 8/27/2024 - 12/3/2024