Rites of passage and coming of age rituals are common throughout the world. Often, a ceremonial object or garment is a central part of the event. Drawing on your vast array of skills, your own experience as a teenager, and your fertile imagination, invent and construct a ceremonial object or costume element that marks your own transformation, or rite of passage from high school student to artist in the world. You may work individually or in collaboration with others.
Sources of inspiration (a list for your to add on to…) and Strategies:
Ceremonial garments and forms: the cloak or mantle, the sash or stole, headdresses, masks…
Structural or sculptural objects, gateways, staffs…
Exaggeration or emphasis (through accumulation, color/contrast, scale etc.)
Masquerade and transformation
Performance and performative installation
Melissa Webb, Pat Olezsko, Nick Cave, Leigh Bowery, Julie Taymor, Joseph Beuys, Jeanine Oleson…
Option 2:
You have started a couple of projects in this class and experimented with new techniques. An idea for a costume, performance, installation or sculpture may have been sparked in the process. Develop your idea further by continuing with one of these projects.
Proposals due: Tuesday afternoon, July 14
Proposals should include sketches and/or collaged images, sources of inspiration, writing and materials samples, if possible.
Final Presentation: Wednesday morning, July 22
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