BRIEF Your task is to create and then present as a group A Meditation on A Black Square. To explain further: the black square has an iconic status in the visual culture of western art history, but you should not necessarily just focus on that aspect. Instead, in this context, the black square is a starting point for you to explore the possibilities of a brief that is centred on abstraction, how you can deal with abstraction, how you tackle abstract ideas and problems, and the potential it offers to invent and interpret through your interaction with each other.
Can you find a way to use abstraction to challenge dominant systems or meanings?
Can you use abstraction and the idea of the square in a new context or contemporary setting?
Can you use abstraction to explore hidden often unseen or unexpressed emotions?
TIMELINE 2.5 weeks
OUTCOME Keeping in mind ideas of abstraction and layers (physical and metaphorical) we created a black square made out of individual black squares to visualize the idea of there being more to it than what the artist chose to show. There is an unknown amount of depth between the original white canvas and the final black square that we end up looking at.