Discussion Facilitator Response for Art & Representation

Getting ready to facilitate the discussion on Art & Representation I felt excited about the possibilities. We had created what seemed to be an exciting and different way to communicate about what we had read as well as change things up during class time.

I was expecting a greater response in understanding and application of the material with facilitating the class discussion in the way we did. Unfortunately the message, to me at least, was lost in translation.

I was hoping for each of us to create something representative of the "words" given and then reflect upon the similarities and differences between the products.

In the future if I was to recreate this project I would pose acute question during the discussion prior to creating and reflect upon these same questions after. some of the questions i feel would have been effective to propose are:

Does the act of representing something accurately mean the artist needs to portray it as it truly is, or is the aura of it good enough?

By recreating a subject that was created in the past again in the present effect it's authenticity?

How does time effect your personal response?

If time is a factor to how your might respond to a particular set of circumstances, how does it appropriate itself within your reproduction of the same set of circumstances today?

I feel that by posing these questions before and after it would have created a more accurate understanding of how we where trying to appropriate the material in an artistic way.