Nowhere
To Be &
Everywhere
To Go
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Think of a gesture to do with this object.
Think about how you
would document it.
(Ask someone to help you with this part if you need it!)
Do the gesture and document it.
Title your gesture.
Send me your gesture.
- The series of artist-educator-scholar-performer gestures created around the same object are compiled into a curriculum unit.
- You read the collection of gestures as artworks and use each image as a lesson plan.
- You consider this whole thing an artwork and imagine it in a museum, home, gallery.
- You make an original artwork with, about, or around, this gesture, this object, this series of prompts.
- You forget about this object.
Artists
Aneya Patwardhan
Eamonn Abel
About
About
What is this?
What are gestures?
Nowhere To Be and Everywhere To Go is
an arts-based curriculum project created by Ishita Dharap.
It looks at the idea of curriculum as elastic, messy, playful, uncertain, interpretable, penetrable, porous, curious, narrative, heuristic, dialogic, unpredictable, and co-creatable.
This series of artist-scholar-educator-practitioner gestures is an artwork, but it might also most certainly be a curriculum.
The practice of “polyglot artist” Alberto Aguilar is described by Jorge Lucero (2013) as “everyday gestures—including the teaching gesture—as material”. In my understanding, this way of using the word “gesture” signals an overlap between sign, action, movement, and expression, but it could just as well be each of these things in its entirety. A painting is a gesture as much as a series of instructions is or cooking food is a gesture. I like how it moves fluidly between art and life– if these were separate things.
If we keep conjuring gestures that are small and mighty, and adding them to a series of gestures before us, we build a composite gesture alongside and in the middle of life.
Making The Bed
Han Beshey
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Wrapping Exercises 1,2,3, & 4
Andrés Martínez Ruiz
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Manoranjan
Ishita Dharap
Don’t Bother Me
Dusty Bacon
Curriculum Vitae
Ishita Dharap
Curriculum Grass
Classmates in ARTE 502
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Becoming Scarf 1,2,3, & 4
Eamonn Abel & Tim Abel
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Bird of a Feather
Aneya Patwardhan
A Pillar at Work
Victor A. Ruiz-Divas
Reaching Embrace
Samantha Shoppell
Invitation
Ishita Dharap
Why Is Chicago So Cold
We Are Cold
Lindsey Edwards
Wrapping and Unwrapping, 2023
Natalia Espinel & Samantha Shoppell
Light Painting
Gabriel Ibarra
Fold
Jorge Lucero
Mac and Cheese
Jack Bertrand
Huckleberry
Jenn Lee
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Discussion Gestures 1 & 2
Sarah Travis
Seen and Unseen
Sujata Dharap
Becoming Scarf Family Portrait
Tim Abel
Waiting for Matzo Ball Soup and Thinking of Frida and Ezra
Paulina Camacho Valencia
Khet
Ishita Dharap
You snooze, you lose
Sharmila Karve
