assessment
Final assessment will involve two components:
1) a blog book
(30% of assessment)
Compile a collection of all your blog posts into the one A4 document.
This will be marked according to the depth of your engagements with weekly material and their contribution to the development of the seminar as an overall research project.
2) Final project
(70% of assessment)
brief
You are to produce an illustrated manual or user’s guide for an engagement with (or the making of ) an object (or series of objects) of your design. The implicit aim of this project should be to refigure or transform contamination of some kind into a productive configuration (productive of ethically poised transformability.)
In other words, the general task is to take an example of ‘contamination’, as a term that is expandable into a field of belief and attitude described by the synonyms below, and embed it into a set of actions or objects such that ‘contamination’ becomes transformed into something else.
synonyms: pollution, adulteration, corruption, uncleanness, impurity, contagion, decay, defilement, dirtying, disease, filth, foulness, poisoning, rottenness, spoliation, taint, blemish, defect, fault, stigma, disgrace
Your manual could be a parody or play of absurdity, a serious proposition, a futuristic scenario, an uncomfortable, abject or perverse provocation, a stimulation of the senses, a poetic transformation … or all of these at once.
These documents/projects may be done in groups of 2-3 if you so desire, but individual submissions are equally acceptable.
format
These are to be submitted in digital and physical form as an A5 document.
submission
The last few weeks of semester will be opportunities to present and discuss work in progress for this final submission. This will occur in week 11 and 12, with final draft submissions due (and presented) in week 13. The final must be submitted by 10am Friday the 22nd of June (week 16).
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