We're going to have a guest lecturer this Thursday for the first part of the class. Michael Borowski, an MFA student at the School of Art and Design, will present his work in conjunction with his Thesis exhibition Make/Shift. Here is a short description of his work:
Make/Shift is a series of nomadic devices built by the desire to carry home with me as I move from place to place. Through the severing and ad-hoc reconstruction of buildings and furniture, these uncanny objects offer temporary attachments to a home that isn't fully here or there. They occupy the precarious border between interior and exterior, security and vulnerability, solitude and companionship. Household objects, detached from their domesticity, drift into places of passing interaction. Private, daily rituals make room for others to share in their intimacy. These fleeting furnishings speculate on inhabiting the unfamiliar, and belonging grounded in mutual displacement.
For more info: http://www.michaelborowski.com/
I suggest you check out the exhibition along with the other students' work at the Slusser Gallery on North Campus, on the 1st floor of the Taubman Building, School of Art & Design.
http://art-design.umich.edu/exhibitions/special/mfa2011#Borowski
Hopefully, this will inspire some cross-disciplinary exchange. I'm sure Michael would be very curious about your responses to his work in conjunction with the readings we've had this semester.
Make/Shift is a series of nomadic devices built by the desire to carry home with me as I move from place to place. Through the severing and ad-hoc reconstruction of buildings and furniture, these uncanny objects offer temporary attachments to a home that isn't fully here or there. They occupy the precarious border between interior and exterior, security and vulnerability, solitude and companionship. Household objects, detached from their domesticity, drift into places of passing interaction. Private, daily rituals make room for others to share in their intimacy. These fleeting furnishings speculate on inhabiting the unfamiliar, and belonging grounded in mutual displacement.
For more info: http://www.michaelborowski.com/
I suggest you check out the exhibition along with the other students' work at the Slusser Gallery on North Campus, on the 1st floor of the Taubman Building, School of Art & Design.
http://art-design.umich.edu/exhibitions/special/mfa2011#Borowski
Hopefully, this will inspire some cross-disciplinary exchange. I'm sure Michael would be very curious about your responses to his work in conjunction with the readings we've had this semester.
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