In addition to developing, researching and constructing individual and collaborative installations, students will explore and investigate the installation work and studio practice of artists Laure Prouvost and Nairy Baghramian. Both Prouvost and Baghramian will have solo exhibitions on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in the the fall of 2017. This course will include tours of the Prouvost and Baghramian exhibitions, conversations with the exhibition curators, guest lectures and research in the Walker Art Center Library. This course will also look at the installation works of Yayoi Kusama, William Pope.L, Kara Walker, Allan Kaprow, Rosemarie Trockel, Pierre Huyghe, Allora & Calzadilla, Kader Attia among others.
About the artists
Laure Prouvost ( (French, b. 1978; lives and works in Antwerp) produces visually and aurally rich moving image installations in which she conflates reality and fiction, words and images, reveling in moments of mistranslation that open up new avenues for meaning. In conjunction with the new installation in the Medtronic Gallery, Prouvost will create a theatrical performance work commissioned by the Walker.*
Nairy Baghramian (b. 1971, Iran; lives and works in Berlin) has created sculptures and site-responsive installations that play off the body and its gestures. Her works mark boundaries, transitions, and gaps in the museum and urban space, referencing interior and exterior, fashion and design, theater and dance, form and meaning. Nairy Baghramian installation Déformation Professionnelle at the Walker marks the artist's first international museum presentation.*
*Walker Art Center exhibition descriptions.