Pratt Integrative Courses – Winter 2024
300s: At the Vangarde!
- PIC 303: Bold/Rogue. DECEMBER 22, 26-29 | JANUARY 2-12. Amir Parsa.
330s: Alt-Fuse
- PIC 336: The Alchemical Imagination. DECEMBER 22, 26-29 | JANUARY 2-12. Eliza Swann.
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Course Descriptions
PIC 303
Bold/Rogue
Amir Parsa
This course invites students to shake up their work, create new genres and forms, fuse disciplines, take aesthetic and stylistic risks, and balance individual work with collaborations and interventions. Through the study and making of avant-garde pieces, the questioning of canons, the cultivation of idleness (that’s right, doing nothing), and other radical actions, the class guides students to envision innovative paths for their future studies and projects. Go rogue. Be bold. And create groundbreaking work!
PIC 336
The Alchemical Imagination
Eliza Swann
Alchemists refer to their combined practices as “The Great Art.” In this course, we will use metaphors derived from ancient alchemy to elucidate deep structures in the creative imagination, using alchemical symbolism as a springboard to expand our own capacities as thinkers and makers. Together, we will perform in-class experiments and trace the philosophies of alchemy through its applications in early mathematics, proto-chemistry, healing arts, psychology, visual art and literature to develop the tools to arrive at our own “Great Art.”