PUFA
3240

Core Studio 2: Topics in 4D

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

Non-Liberal Arts
Undergraduate Course
Degree Students (with Restrictions)
Topics 4D: Performing Identity
Spring 2025
Taught By: Tara Asgar
Section: A

CRN: 1925

Credits: 3

"People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.” (British-Palestinian Artist Mona Hatoum in conversation with Janine Antoni, BOMB Magazine, Spring 1998 Issue) This course delves into the contemporary/art exploration of identity through the lens of performance and lecture performance methods. In light of Mona Hatoum's assertion that "identity is more complex and less fixed than society often allows for," students will critically examine the construction of identity categories, particularly race, class, gender, and sexuality, as largely constructed within contemporary social critic and visual art contexts. Through the study of contemporary artists and theorists, such as Mona Hatoum and Judith Butler, students will analyze and learn to incorporate how marginalized artists utilize art and performance as tools to challenge societal norms and question the coherence and authority of identity categories.

Open to: Bachelors degree in Fine Arts majors, others by permission of the Fine Arts program. Pre-requisite(s): PUFA 2200 Core Seminar 1, PUFA 2220 Core Studio 1: 2D, and at least one of the following: PUFA 2230 Core Studio 1: 3D or PUFA 2240 Core Studio 1: 4D.

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: 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: 9:18pm EST 11/5/2024

Meeting Info:
Days: Thursday
Times: 9:00am - 2:40pm
Building: TBD
Room: TBD
Date Range: 1/23/2025 - 5/8/2025
Topics 4D: Woven Narratives
Fall 2024
Taught By: Tamar Ettun
Section: A

CRN: 1959

Credits: 3

This class explores the intersections of performance art, time-based processes, and installation, with textile work. Students will engage with a variety of textile making techniques including weavings, tapestries, fiber arts, inflatables, and wearable sculptures. We will focus on the collision of traditional textile craftsmanship with global trajectories in contemporary art, through the lens of astrological cycles. Through hands-on workshops students will learn making skills such as natural/synthetic fabric dyeing, sewing, weaving, and collage. Students will implement these techniques and incorporate them into their own performative objects and installations. Students will research artists that have pushed the boundaries of textile, including: Cecilia Vicuna, Nick Cave, Ann Hamilton, to harness what they learn when creating their own work.The class will combine presentations on artists and short readings with prompt-driven projects that lead up to independent work. Collectively we will follow lunar cycles and respond through embodied movement, exercises, and creative work.

Open to: Bachelors degree in Fine Arts majors, others by permission of the Fine Arts program. Pre-requisite(s): PUFA 2200 Core Studio 1: Sign & System, PUFA 2240 Core Studio 1: 4D, and at least one of the following: PUFA 2220 Core Studio 1: 2D or PUFA 2230 Core Studio 1: 3D.

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: September 9, 2024 (Monday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: November 17, 2024 (Sunday)

Seats Available: Yes

Status: Closed*

* 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: 9:18pm EST 11/5/2024

Meeting Info:
Days: Friday
Times: 9:00am - 2:40pm
Building: Parsons East 25 E13th
Room: 502
Date Range: 8/30/2024 - 12/13/2024