5 Minutes
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Date
2016
Authors
Department of Art, University of Oregon
Masters of Fine Art Candidates, University of Oregon
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Abstract
5 Minutes was conceived in the 2014–2015 academic year as an initiative to research, engage, and share threads of discourse between University of Oregon Department of Art masters of fine art candidates, the department’s visiting artist lecture series participants, and the University community-at-large. The process gained a momentum that launched the initiative into an entirely graduate student-run fixture of the 2015–2016 academic year. As a participant in the first iteration of 5 Minutes, I aided this transition in the hopes of both continuing the interview series and of helping the series find its voice as a recurring
process among students. This year, artists invited to hold studio visits with the masters of fine art candidates were added to the interview series, providing a lineup of visiting artists who presented lectures, held studio visits, or both. In expanding the conversations had with, about, and around these artists, the conversations have persisted and entered into all aspects of dialogue surrounding the Department of Art. Actively encountering the artists visiting our campus and choosing to push those encounters further has allowed the graduate students a proactive stance as well as an opportunity to more wholly engage the artists by breaking down the perceived barriers that often feel present in a lecture setting and can present themselves in a studio visit with someone you’ve only just met. Each of the interviews that follows was conducted in a variety of locations and recorded on a small handheld digital audio recorder by an active listener, transcribed and introduced by the interviewer, edited, and collected into this volume.
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55 pages
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Collection, Conversation, Interview, Lecturer, CFAR