Perspicuous: The Exhibition

Call for Participation and Submissions:

Perspicuous:
An Institute-wide exhibition of student and faculty/staff-student collaborative work

Dear Pratt Faculty and Staff:

The Academic Initiatives Committee is planning an Institute-wide exhibition of student work, as well as faculty/staff-student collaborations, dedicated to this year’s AIC theme, Perspicuous Representations. The exhibition, entitled Perspicuous, will take place at the beginning of the Fall 2007 semester and feature panel discussions with the participating artists, a catalogue, and a prize to be judged by an outside critic.

A description of the exhibition follows below and can be downloaded here. We would like to hear from you if you would like to participate in the exhibition’s organization, including serving as a member of the exhibition jury, or as an exhibiting artist.

Have you seen or produced work that could be part of this exhibition? Do you know students who create work that represents, in compelling ways, their engagement with concepts such as “space,” “visuality,” “narrative,” and “perception”? Do you know students who can — and wish to — reflect on the ideas at work in their projects in clear and interesting ways? Please send them our way.

We plan to begin considering work 01 February 2007.

Michael Eng, Chair
Academic Initiatives Committee

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Department of Social Science
& Cultural Studies
meng@pratt.edu

Kimberly Lamm
AIC Exhibition Curator

Assistant Professor of English
Department of English
& Humanities
klamm@pratt.edu

Perspicuous
An Institute-wide exhibition of student and faculty/staff-student collaborative work

A main source of our failure to understand is that we do not command a clear view of the use of our words. —Our grammar is lacking in this sort of perspicuity. A perspicuous representation produces just that understanding which consists in ’seeing connexions’.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (1953)

This exhibition comes out of the Academic Initiatives Committee program, Perspicuous Representations, which identifies fundamental concepts affecting the Institute, such as: What is Interdisciplinarity? What is Critical Thinking? What is Practice? The AIC’s aim is to present a clear overview, or “perspicuous representation,” of the different forms these questions can take in artistic and intellectual work at Pratt Institute.

Perspicuous presents work from all disciplinary areas of the Institute that reflect on the forms concepts can take. Space, visuality, narrative, and perception are possible concepts artists participating in the show will be engaging. Displayed work will not ‘make statements’ but pose ideas, and then develop and complicate them so that the work will relate to contexts beyond the boundaries of the work itself.

The exhibition will present approximately 15-20 works. It will be complemented by panel discussions featuring the participating artists and faculty. The exhibition organizers hope to offer a prize, juried by a critic outside the Institute.

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