Big Week 1: Baptism By Fire

So, you've a week of work ahead of you starting almost immediately.

You are to prepare and present a solo creative project. You've the first four days of the week to work, presentations happening on the Friday.

Guidelines:

1. You are the only person you are working with. You can work in community, but you present by yourself, construct by yourself, rehearse by yourself;
2. You can present a project in any area or discipline. It can be inter/multiple disciplinary, but you can only do one project. So, you could write and then perform what you wrote;
3. You must be able to develop/rehearse your project during class. You can work after class as well, but you cannot be idle during STAC;
4. Your project should push your boundaries. Don't be safe. Try something new; try something you've never done before. Risk! It's good;
5. If you're a Noobie, you are not required to show your project to the entire class, you can show it privately to me. If you've a year or more of STAC behind you, you must share your project with the entire class.

Due Dates:

• Draft Intention Statement due via email Sunday Night, 9/9
• Studio log kept via your blog, updated daily
• Final Intention Statement due Thursday Night, 9/12
• Project in Final Form due on Friday, 9/13

What's an Intention Statement? This is a written (translate that as word processed) piece in which you describe the point of your work, the effect you're trying to get, the message you're trying to get across, the ideas and techniques that you're exploring, your sources of inspiration, etc. It can be any and or all of these things. It explains the work. It's also called an Artists Statement, but there is a difference: an artists statement covers all the work of the artist, an intention statement covers a single work or series of works. Here are examples of artists statements:

• how to do it!
• Example #1
• Example 2

And here is a specific intention statement I wrote for a series of photo constructions I exhibited over the summer:

"Die Adevntures of Wunderboy und Schpat will be a continuing series depicting the trials and tribulations of a small mannequin who has come to life, his girlfriend, Betina, and his dog. Chased by the Evil Baron Buublschiesse, tortured by Dr. EinsSchwein, written in made up German and consisting of pictures taken of other pictures, mannequins, and any odd thing that has a face or something like it, Die Adventures is sure to delight and confuse anyone on your Christmas list."

An example of the work to which the statement refers:

Feel free to ask questions.