Some video from The Performative Print/Beyond the Sheet

A video, shot and cut by Ben featuring a bit of everything from the May Term.

Puppetry by Tess Weinberg,

A film by Kieran Riley Abbott.

Bridget Kranz flies her printed kite.

Kelsey Kuno's puzzle animation.

DAY 9: The Performative Print/Beyond the Sheet Goes to a Warehouse

On the last day - we gathered in a warehouse in the Seward neighborhood to display and present the work accomplished over the three short weeks of May Term.  Check the next post for some pictures of the final products, and videos of the projects that were screened.  It was an amazing send off with  screen printing, paper sculpture, samples of the street works, Super 8 and video screenings, a puppet show, glow in the dark rabbits, paper plane poems, and screen printed kites demonstrations.  A pretty ambitious batch of accomplishments - not all visible here, but check back, and if anybody has pics email them to me at brock205@umn.edu, and I'll throw em' up on here.

Some of Keiko's many accomplishments with paper.

Sarah presents her pronto plate collage stalker story book.

Keiko discusses her various pulp treasures.

Some of the glowing rabbits I was talking about.

We gathered early in the day to look at Fred's work, which resulted in a really amazing conceptual piece refelecting on words and the poetry of John Berryman.  There's much more to it than that, but you can see more on his tumblr, and an upcoming final post.

Sam and Sarah - loadin' up!

Ben discusses his public sign project - designed to be taken from posts around the city.

Sam welded this from scrap - complete with screen storage printing table and QRabbit sticker.
 He gave away the prints pictured below.

Sam's mobile screen press open to the public.

My light up heart embryo thing fell of.... facilitating a stop at Skol.

Erin's flag project, ready for emergence in the city.

Kieran's paper made of tshirts and actual glitter - which were then
 tranformed into a Super 8 film inspired by .gif animations.

What an amazing experience.  This was a first for us as teachers, and hopefully not the last.  The work here reflects the ambition and hard work of a great group of students - and we hope it will be a big step in bridging personal studio practices and the world at large.  This course was designed to introduce a variety of new approaches to printmaking and paper, and to foster an enriching creative experience in the print studio.   That experience resulted in a number of personal and experimental artistic enterprises, many of which were really surprising - but each one drew from the spirit of interactivity, and were deeply rewarding to see come to fruition.

Thanks to a great class and to Laura and Terez.

Day 8: The Day of Reckoning is Upon Us...in a good way.

On this very good work day, it dawned upon me that students had included in their respective projects at least one, if not multiple methods we had introduced in week one - combined with their varied print backgrounds to create a breadth of interesting works across disciplines.  At least one of every approach (that I had conceived of) to what "The Performative Print" can mean, is represented in this group of projects.  They truly have moved "Beyond the Sheet," which is what we were going for, actually.  

These projects include, as seen below: Screen, digital, pronto plates, puppetry, welding, laser cutting, stop motion, public art, performance, book arts, relief printing, acetone transfers, mono printing, paper making, calligraphy, 16 mm film, welding, wheat paste - and some other stuff.  Thats a lot of ground for one 3 week term.  What an amazing group - a truly rewarding experience for any instructor to have.

We also had the privilege of having Jeff Millikan stop in to show some of his bee hive book projects and discuss his work with the Bell Museum (not to mention his beginnings in photography and printmaking).  It was a really inspiring presentation - perfect for what we did with our workshop.

Friday is THE DAY!   RSVP on ye ole book of faces right HERE.