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Daphne Plessner

Associate Professor

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Education:

PhD Art & Politics
Goldsmiths College, University of London
BA (Hons) Philosophy
Birkbeck College, University of London

Bio

Before joining ECU, Dr. Fawn Daphne Plessner was Senior Lecturer and Course Director in Book Arts & Design at the University of the Arts, London. She holds a PhD in Art & Politics and a BA Philosophy from the University of London. She studied painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Germany. She has exhibited in the UK and Europe. Her recent focus has been public art interventions and audio-based artworks that experiment with journalistic methods like interviews, newspapers and podcasts.

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Research Interests

Fawn’s art-research is influenced by Indigenous world views with specific interest in how more-than-human beings are regarded as social and political members of a community within Indigenous laws. Her doctoral research investigated the emergence of 'citizen art' as a new field of practice, showing how artists enact new modes of citizenship. Her book, Doing Politics with Citizen Art examines how artists address the adverse effects of status citizenship. It also discusses how her own public art interventions make visible the intersection of speciesism and colonial land appropriation within Canada. She founded the Tree Museum, an online art-research platform that traces the impact of suburban aesthetics and colonial imaginaries on forests and animal lives. The Tree Museum also supports the advancement of W̱SÁNEĆ law and governance within her island home, the unceded lands of the W̱SÁNEĆ people.

24/25 Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Illustration ILUS 305 26/SP

Description

This course varies in topic from section to section, and is repeatable for 3 credits so long as the thematic topic has changed. As a diverse field that spans print, screen, objects and environments both physical and virtual, Illustration increasingly necessitates the ability to adapt. The topics and thematics offered on this course are designed to expose students to a range of unique approaches to illustration practiced within the field. Students will engage in problem solving and debate, research and experimentation. Topics and thematics have included: Allegory, Botanical Illustration, Children's Books, Concept Design, Comics, Editorial, Food, Illustrating Literature and Illustration Design, Sci-Fi, etc.

Each section of this course runs with a different topic. See here.

This course is subject to priority rules; see here.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Visual Arts Studio VAST 305 26/SP

Description

The purpose of this studio course is to provide a practice-based learning environment with a focus on Art & Text. Students will explore how text operates within contemporary visual culture and their own art practices. The course offers a framework for examining diverse approaches to text in art, including text-as-image, artworks utilizing the book form, and projects that employ alternative methods of distribution, such as libraries, online databases, hypertext experiments, sound, and writing-based art practices. Through independent text-based art projects, students will engage deeply with text in their work while critically considering current discourse and production within the field.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Graduate Studies Masters GSMA 505 26/SP

Description

This course provides students with an evolving series of thematic entry points for rigorous engagement of theoretical, philosophical, social, and political concerns through artistic practice and contextualization. Through writing exercises and workshops, students will work to develop a position paper that discusses the state of their practice in relation to other artists, practices, and ideas alongside anticipated trajectories for their thesis.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.