Subcultural Chronologies: the online/offline thereafter of the 1990s
... At this moment, our corporal presence adjacently unbinds within the ‘online’ as it takes up the ‘offline’ instantaneously. A hybrid concoction of digital images, archived documents, political statements, AR filters, and short captions protrude our cloth and flesh from the online. The course thus positions the (digital) image of the body in the center of the discussion. It traces the subcultural permeation into high fashion and art in the early 90s - the fragmented mix of the club culture (rave), the grunge, and the kink, their documentation, re-enactment, and evolution into visual signifiers of ‘authenticity’ of later stages of the Internet. Following the progress of technology, the course will map the fragmented visual history of subversive corporal ties through the lens of the reoccurring 1990s. The motivation of the course is to raise the awareness of recent intertwined histories of subcultures, styles, and gestures and how they have determined the visual language of today, furthermore to steady the speed of visual information the students may be experiencing within their consumption of visual information by acknowledging the journey of the image within the micro-o-narratives of the social media; its standing within larger chronicle of (sub)culture.The course is taught through a practitioners leans of an established professional in the worlds of fashion, styling, film, and theater costume and a club goer, in Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, and Belgrade, from the late 90s to mid-2000s, equipped with a first-hand experience of seeing and being in the world absorbed in multiple aspects of dress and subculture on the cusp from analog to digital. The seminar will be teaching the students how to analyze visual material from queer, trans-feminist, and post-socialist perspectives within the visual narratives of social media, concurrently encouraging them to create their autonomous works and writing on the topics covered in the seminar.
Title Subcultural Chronologies: the online/offline thereafter of the 1990s
Description ... At this moment, our corporal presence adjacently unbinds within the ‘online’ as it takes up the ‘offline’ instantaneously. A hybrid concoction of digital images, archived documents, political statements, AR filters, and short captions protrude our cloth and flesh from the online. The course thus positions the (digital) image of the body in the center of the discussion. It traces the subcultural permeation into high fashion and art in the early 90s - the fragmented mix of the club culture (rave), the grunge, and the kink, their documentation, re-enactment, and evolution into visual signifiers of ‘authenticity’ of later stages of the Internet. Following the progress of technology, the course will map the fragmented visual history of subversive corporal ties through the lens of the reoccurring 1990s. The motivation of the course is to raise the awareness of recent intertwined histories of subcultures, styles, and gestures and how they have determined the visual language of today, furthermore to steady the speed of visual information the students may be experiencing within their consumption of visual information by acknowledging the journey of the image within the micro-o-narratives of the social media; its standing within larger chronicle of (sub)culture.The course is taught through a practitioners leans of an established professional in the worlds of fashion, styling, film, and theater costume and a club goer, in Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, and Belgrade, from the late 90s to mid-2000s, equipped with a first-hand experience of seeing and being in the world absorbed in multiple aspects of dress and subculture on the cusp from analog to digital. The seminar will be teaching the students how to analyze visual material from queer, trans-feminist, and post-socialist perspectives within the visual narratives of social media, concurrently encouraging them to create their autonomous works and writing on the topics covered in the seminar.
Learning Objective ......The course focuses primarily on the 1990s visual influence on today’s understanding of corporal identities. The sessions will analyze the disjointed fragments of photography, social media, fashion, and flesh, offering students valuable insights into what it means to make up post-human bodies in their online/offline subsistence. Moreover, the course will encourage the students to think about the materialization of their ideas and impulses in the form of visual essays, poetry, photography, and object making motivated by the seminar’s content, finalizing their works within an analog fanzine produced in the class.
Form of Assessment
Recommended Prerequisites ...none, artistic practice encouraged.