Social Being - Reaction

1. Social Being - Reaction

2. Journey Together Catholic College Art Department • CONCEPT: Social Being- Reaction • In this unit you are to explore a range of styles and visual expressions based on the theme of: • Social Issues and/ or Events • Research and explore social issues and or an event that you feel strongly about. The issue may be selected from an area of personal interest (eg being a teenager in the contemporary society, family issues etc.), to issues of national and global significance (eg political, environmental, religious, gender issues etc.). • TASK:Create a body of work (refer to last page of the tasksheet) with a major resolved art piece in the style and media of your choice, which expresses your reaction to a social issue or event. You are to create a supporting PowerPoint Presentation this should include signposts of your artist journey. Signposts: identify the significant points that show the characteristics of the assessment criteria. These characteristics will reveal the quality of your: definition of your focus, knowledge and understanding of your chosen issue, decision making, personal aesthetic (style and expression), the construction and communication of meaning, the use of visual language and expression, creative thinking, critical analysis, problem solving, and viewpoint. • ASSESSMENT • At the completion of this unit you are to have submitted the following items: • Your Visual Diary showing research and process work related to the concept, this should include the research activities. • A Power Point Presentation with scanned pages of your visual diary that reflect the artist journey, photographs of exploration works and any extra notes that demonstrate working through the four stages of the Inquiry Learning Model - (Research, Develop, Resolve and Reflect) • At least one resolved artpiece, 2D or 3D of any dimension using any mediums, this piece should reflect your chosen focus for the concept “Social Being - Reaction”.

3. What is a Body of Work A body of works is a collection of investigative artpieces leading to a single or “major” work/s. The body of work shows your progress through the inquiry learning model (researching, developing, resolving, reflecting), as you integrates the components of the course (concept, focus, context, media area(s) and visual language and expression). The body of work comes to represent a coherent journey which may attempt divergent paths but eventually moves towards resolution of art work/s. Phillip Toledano “Hope & Fear” is the external manifestation of internal desires and paranoia that are adrift in contemporary American society. What are we afraid of? What do we love? How does our society function, and what does it worship? *All costumes are real 2004 Read page within tasksheet

4. Inquiry Learning Model

5. Look at Example of year 12 Students Body Of Work http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/learning/8137.html PALIMPSEST - a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.

6. Issue-Based Art Art can be a powerful tool for expressing views, thoughts and feelings about important issues. It can be used to influence people’s ideas or change their viewpoints. Artists have used a wide variety of different media to create powerful works that put across their concerns about issues they care about: from paintings, sculptures or mixed media installations to posters, graffiti and signage(Young Tate, 2009). Over several bodies of work Fiona Foley has immersed herself in discourses and histories of hate and hatred. She dwells in the shadows they cast across constructions of race, be they political, scientific or cultural Fiona Foley HHH, 2004textiles, dimension variable (Installation)

7. Atomix by Nike Savvas Aug 5, 2006 In Nike Savvas’ huge room installation a shimmering haze of vibrating coloured balls suggests the very atoms that are the fundamental structural units of all things. This mesmerising work has an extraordinary optical effect as it oscillates within the gallery space, suggestive of a haze of colour over a hot landscape or an abstract painting that has exploded in the exhibition.

8. Fiona Hall Fiona Margaret Hall (b. 1953) is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists. She first emerged in the 1970s as a photographer, but during the 1980s transitioned to using a diverse range of art forms. Her ever-growing repertoire includes sculpture, painting, installation, garden design and video. Hall's choice of material, and the way she uses it, is critical to her art. It speaks to us because it engages with contemporary life in intriguing ways, created from an Australian perspective. Hall deliberately transforms ordinary everyday objects to address a range of contemporary issues such as globalisation, consumerism, colonialism and natural history Fiona Hall lotus, 1999, aluminium and steel.

9. Yuken Teruya does wonders with recycled materials and she must have a sharp exacto knife. Here she took toilet paper rolls and created a small forest installation. Check out more of her work at: http://www.yukenteruyastudio.com/ Doesn’t need to be expensive materials

10. Hossein Valamanesh’s Untitled (1999), shows the following characteristics: an example of the use of found objects in installations the suggestion of spirituality and the artist’s cultural background symbolism in the use of the candle and the branch the depiction of nature and self-identity as two concerns in the artist’s works. Hossein Valamanesh, Untitled 1999 Lavender bush, oil burner 80 x 58 x 82 cm Courtesy the artist and Sherman Galleries, Sydney CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE/INSTALLATIONS

12. Internet sites for ideas Words to use in your searches: Global issues Issue-based art Conceptual art

13. http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/index.shtml

14. Environmental Issues • Eradication of Extreme Poverty • Health and Social Issues • Education Issues • Eradication of War, Tribal Misunderstandings, and Terrorism • Business Commerce and Economics Issues • Religious and Spiritual Issues • Justice Law and Order Issues • Human Rights Issues • Planetary Management Issues • Miscellaneous matters • For a Happier Planet http://www.harryrings.org/main.htm

15. Everyday and Serious Issues Teens Face By Denise Witmer, About.com Guide to Teens From getting up in the morning to coming home by curfew at night, today's teen faces many choices and issues. Parents can help their teen traverse this winding path of adolescence by learning about and having resources for these issues. Here parents will find things they need to know - even about things they didn't know they needed to know. School Resources and Homework Help Acne Body Image Cars and Driving Dating and Relationships Depression and Suicide Drug Use: Issues and Prevention Health Issues and Teen Wellness Money Matters Teens Online and Plugged In Friends, Teen Social Life and Peer Pressure Teen Sexuality and Pregnancy Working Teens http://parentingteens.about.com/od/familylife/u/teenissues.htm

16. Other Issues Local and General • Fluoridation • Anti Materialism/ Anti Consumerism – no shopping day (local artist Tania Cobham) • Greed and Corruption • Re-zoning of Coral Sea – support green or against end of Game Fishing Industry • Stop Development of Whitfield ranges – Save Our Slopes • Black card – need one to work in Indigenous communities • Development of False Cape • Ukulele festival • Carbon cost of transport food unnecessarily – stores such as Coles and Woolworth buy NQ produce send it to Sydney and redistribute it back to NQ.(Farm Gate Markets) • Veganism – boycott cruelty http://www.vegsoc.org.au/ • Swine Flu • Site to visit for many local environmental issues • Cairns and Far North Environment Centre http://www.cafnec.org.au/ • Ella Bay Development • Walsh River – no Damn • Whitfield Hillside development • Coral Sea re-zoning

17. Bibliography http://www.cafnec.org.au/ http://www.harryrings.org/main.htm http://parentingteens.about.com/od/familylife/u/teenissues.htm http://www.tate.org.uk/youngtate/examhelp/themes/issue.htm http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/index.shtml http://www.vegsoc.org.au/