Stage 1 FIRST DAY INDUCTION PROJECT

MONUMENT

"The term monumentality suggests qualities of inertness, opacity, permanence, remoteness, distance, preciosity, and grandeur. Yet monuments are prized precisely because they are not merely cold, hard, and permanent. They are also living vital, immediate, and accessible, as least to some parts of society."

(Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade, 2003:3)

"A monument is what art history chooses to celebrate and proclaim as a monument."

(Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade, 2003:2)

3 Hour Project!

On the very first day at University for the Creative Arts students studying on BA (Hons) Fine Art & BA (Hons) Arts & Media worked collaboratively to on an intense project over 3 hours.

From research to exhibition, students explored ideas around the "Monument" on this their momentous 1st day at UCA Farnham.

Inaugural Lecture

Students started the day with Amanda Couch's inaugural lecture on a range of artists who explore the monument in their work including the work of Mark Wallinger, Graham Hudson, Lottie Child and Doris Salcedo.

Mark Wallinger

Graham Hudson

http://www.grahamhudson.com/x/1.html

Lottie Child

Doris Salcedo

Tate Shots Interview

Project Development

Students spent some time to reflect on what the project and develop their own responses before then sharing these with each other and then formulating their own project groups.

Students then developed their ideas before starting to realise and construct their Monuments.

Exhibition

Students then exhibited their Monuments in the Quad that explored a range of approaches from intervention, protest, performance and participation.

CASE

Students spent some time reflecting upon their process to write an explanation or manifesto for their response to the project and the production of their Monument that where presented in CASE outside in the Quad.

Some Video Diary Reflections