Have we lost touch? When did we last see one another? I have no sense of time. There has been a shift in the measurable moments, distances and materials of life. Elastic qualities, transparent characteristics and ubiquitous energies have superseded and consumed a world we thought we knew well. How do we locate our self in this? How does one recast their position with references or in relationship to history and to contemporary context? Can we understand a story as it relates to a future? Our body, our first vessel and our first architecture, encounters the world, the material world, and invites us to engage in making, in thinking through making and to craft original work. In this paper, I propose to present the work of undergraduate students in an interdisciplinary art and design seminar working through a creative process of open questions with limited, specific constraints. The format and structure encourages individual expression and curiosity in order to produce work that engages and responds to experience of the physical world with respect to material experimentation, changes in spatial phenomena through time and the human senses as they pervade our immediate recognition and our memories. The student work exists in examples that range in form from printmaking and painting experiments captures in time lapse video to spoken word poetry and drawing from life. All examples reflect attention to the “real” of the physical experience and reveal a “magic” in the tangent of an instantaneous response to the creative process.
Chelsea Limbird is an interdisciplinary designer, artist, writer and educator based in NYC and Rhode Island. Her work focuses on processes of narrative, memory and presence, as generators for line, word, image and experience. She teaches design studio, representation and interdisciplinary courses at Pratt and Parsons, and has held teaching positions at RISD, Brown and China Academy of Art.
She has exhibited and published drawing, photography, artist books, prose, poetry and design internationally. Chelsea studied Economics and Architectural History at Brown and received a March from RISD.