I will be running some short course with UAL over the summer and I would like to use this opportunity to run a course that is based around the themes of identity.
I wrote my MA dissertation on Contemporary Painting: Process, Materiality and Identity. The reading and writing for this was a transformative experience for my practice as an artist. I would like the intervention to a similar affect for my teaching practice and I think for me this means the intervention needs to have a real life impact for me.
As such I would like to use this opportunity to plan and teach a short course that helps students to consider the different intersectional aspects of their identities and how they can language these in a material way. I will use examples of artists that have chosen to do this and will perhaps structure the five day course as such:
- Personal and historical identity
- Place and identity
- Performing and questioning gender identity
- Expanded painting and identity
- Collage and assemblage
The aim of the course would be for students to consider how they define themselves and to create the framework for their own personal language.