{"id":1179,"date":"2015-07-18T11:48:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T15:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2020-09-06T21:30:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T01:30:30","slug":"advanced-studio-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"Sculpture: Open Studio at The Cooper Union"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sculpture: Open Studio\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>at The Cooper Union<\/h4>\n

In 1989 Ashford was\u00c2\u00a0asked by Hans Haacke, his former\u00c2\u00a0professor\u00c2\u00a0to teach an advanced studio class then labeled as “Sculpture.” Over the years Ashford\u00c2\u00a0re-designed the course repeatedly, as the condition of making and thinking changed. From 1990 until 2011 the class was taught with\u00c2\u00a0the use of a single\u00c2\u00a0assignment linking the members of the class into a\u00c2\u00a0related field of research: “Produce a work derived from the lives of everyone in the room” – “Design a Crime” – “Assume the identity of a Fan and\u00c2\u00a0produce an element of\u00c2\u00a0their life,” etc. Ashford changed the name of the class in 2006 in order to imagine an educational practice separated from the oppressive developments in academic “critique.”\u00c2\u00a0 Course\u00c2\u00a0content is now organized around the production of the collaborative instruction between participants\u00c2\u00a0by examining\u00c2\u00a0individual artistic\u00c2\u00a0propositions that\u00c2\u00a0seem beyond\u00c2\u00a0the capacity to produce.\u00c2\u00a0 In other words, the class is asked to work from untethered\u00c2\u00a0collective inquiry\u00c2\u00a0into the possibility of\u00c2\u00a0 a yet unrecognized method of thinking and making. Accordingly, it is now called “Open Studio”<\/p>\n

– Syllabus _\u00c2\u00a0(link)<\/a>
\n– Propositions _\u00c2\u00a0(link)<\/a>
\n– Docs _ download (forthcoming)
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