You are teaching a Graduate Seminar (topic variable) with both Art MFAs and Classics Grad students. Artists and Classicists are invited into the same space and sit in chairs. The Artists, however, occupy the room ahead of time, had chairs which they had altered, and are dressed in costumes that they have chosen. Each Artist […]
Today is the first day of my Semina Seminar – a pedagogical experiment created after the model of Wallace Berman’s Semina (Latin for ‘seeds’), a hand-printed assemblage-zine that Berman made between 1955 and 1964. As Berman’s friend and collaborator, poet Michal McClure wrote about Semina, it is as much a form or genre than a single, […]