In this short assignment, you will make a sculpture for the senses other than the sight.
Post your results here: Sculpture 1 Other Sense Project
Many people live in a very visual culture. Other senses just aren’t used enough to stay fit, and in worst cases almost risk becoming atrophied. Yet we exist as multi-sensory and multi-intelligent beings, and keeping all senses at work is the way to develop what makes us more alive and smarter- our capacity for attention.
The invitation of this assignment is to decolonize ourselves from the dominance of visuality, by creating an artwork that reintegrates the body into the act of looking and invites the whole organic experience to be part of it. It offers opportunities to play with and explore non-visual senses- to make edible artworks, sculptures that small and sound and can be touched, and so on.
For next week, make 1 sculpture that uses a non-sight sense- hearing, smelling, touching, or tasting. Focus on the experience of those senses. Bring your work to class to let the group experience it. Here is an article that breaks the senses out into language. Use it as your guide.
Here are some questions to ask yourself and you get started:
What sense am I focusing on?
What happens as I look at a pice of art? How do I translate that into another sense?
What elements and principles of art forefront senses other than sight? Texture, proportion, scale, repetition, rhythm, variety, form, space, light, etc.
What are you going to use to create your artwork? Food, found objects, recordings on your phone, plants, heat, cold, etc.
Remember, your artwork s not going to be judged on how it looks! It is the experience of activating one of the other senses that counts. You will be graded on how well you are activating those senses and how “outside the box” your solution is.
Here are some artworks that, while still visually interesting, activate other senses.
