This studio-seminar course explores how artistic research can expand the possibilities of building a counter-archive. Students will investigate how drawing, image-making, field research, and archival interventions can challenge dominant histories and produce alternative forms of knowledge through aesthetic and material practice. Working with artifacts such as photographs, moving image, found documents, personal narratives, mapping, and speculative drawings, students will develop a body of research that focuses on alternative ways of remembering, recording, and preserving, approached primarily through material exploration. The emphasis of this course is on the studio and the archive as a site of aesthetic experimentation. The course is divided into four modules: drawing, image-making, mapping, and audiovisual media, each treating these modes as artistic research tools. Students’ projects will culminate in a final experiential installation that presents their accumulated archive to audiences.
