In this session we were joined by an Academic Support Tutor, who ran a workshop called ‘Portaterms’ – Portable Terms. We explored terms that we are going to use regularly in our Contextual and Theoretical Studies. This session had two main parts. Firstly we were given definitions that we had to match with the correct words as a group work.
These words were: Feminism, Communism, Capitalism, Marxism, Imperialism, Structuralism, Post colonialism, Existentialism, Postmodernism, Culture, Dialectics, Egalitarian, Hegemony, Decolonisation, Left wing.
The second part of our session we were working in smaller groups and each group was responsible to create an illustration, a performance or an item that represented our given portaterm. Our group received the word ‘situationist’ and as this term was quite new for all of us we started this task with research. We found out that situationist artists were very involved in politics, rejected the consumer society and their artworks mainly consisted in maps. So we decided that we would like our design to reflect the existing situationist artworks. We created two posters, one of them was a newspaper which summarised the main idea behind this term. The other poster was inspired by the work of Guy Debord and Asger Jorn’s The Naked City (1957). We cut out different political news and consumerist images and used it in our own design in a form of a mind map.
Portaterms that other groups was given were: Reification, Autocrat, Anti-branding, Habitus, Appropriation, Situationist, Globalisation, Ocularcentrism, Modernism.
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