Below is your homework assignment from next week's visiting artist, Isaac Richard Pool. Please visit his website and check out his work. Your homework is in three parts:
- view the video poem
- write a one page poem in any style based on a place
- bring a collection of images related to the place
There are more details below, so please read carefully. See you next week! - Jessica
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From Isaac Richard Pool:
This is the video poem I want the students to watch:
I want them to think about a place significant to them and come to class with a poem written in any format, approximately one page, and a group of images related to this place. This place could be something sentimental like a home or a favorite park, but I encourage everyone to think more about the places where they spend the most time additively. Street corners, classrooms, chain restaurants, and stores are all places that receive a lot of attention.
The images should include photographs the students created or inherited, and images cultivated from their local environment. The Internet is a very local environment but no memes allowed.
I chose this video because it uses appropriated images to oscillate our feelings between voyeuristic surveillance eye and pedestrian immersed in textures of the street. It does a lot with very few tools. I want the students to use this video as a reference to think about how their body is contingent upon the framing of the spaces that surround it at all times and on many registers. There's a lot about hailing here and desire and hopefully they groove with it in their projects.
