Singapore (June and July)

SOC393Y0: Selected Topics in Sociological Science Research

Summer Studio Abroad (Singapore) is an open-media studio art course where students will explore the multi-faceted urban fabric of Singapore as a case study for understanding the city as key subject for artists in the 20th and 21st century. Singapore’s intricate mix of dense neighborhoods, vernacular architecture, and tropical terrain offers a wealth of scenarios for studying how the urban environment shapes daily and civic life, social relations, and artistic production. Guided visits to artists’ studios, galleries, and museums will give students special access to Singapore’s growing artistic community and ecosystem of public and commercial galleries. Students will engage with Singapore’s urban dynamics as a laboratory for visual art projects including street photography, video, drawing, performance, and site-specific art.

This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty (especially UTSC Studio Art and UTM Art & Art History students)

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses (UTSC students: 1.5 FCE at either B or C level in studio) or with permission of the instructor
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) 

Course outline (TBD) 

Instructor

Will Kwan is a Hong Kong-born, Toronto-based artist and educator. Will joined the University of Toronto as a full-time faculty member in 2007, teaching courses in interdisciplinary art practice and time-based media at the University of Toronto Scarborough and serving as a faculty member in the Master of Visual Studies Program at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Will’s work is held in the permanent collections of M+ in Hong Kong, Folkestone Artworks in Kent, England, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, and the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Will’s work has been exhibited at triennial and biennial exhibitions in Folkestone, Liverpool, Montreal, and Venice, and at venues including MoMA PS1, Art in General, and the Cooper Union in New York, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, the Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC VAL) in Vitry-sur-Seine, France, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, the Polish National Museum in Poznan, the Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and The Power Plant in Toronto, and The Western Front and Centre A in Vancouver. Will has been an artist-in-residence at the Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, the Duolun Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester, England, and the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. Information about his work can be found at www.studiowillkwan.com.