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Art in Our Time- Modules that resonated to me & their connections -…
Art in Our Time-
Modules that resonated to me
& their connections
Performance
READING Taylor Performance Chapt 1
what is performance
Performance artists
Yoko Ono's
Performance piece required the audience to cut pieces of her clothing off slowly. It's an uncomfortable work that really brings into the play the question of the audiences relationship to the artist
Chris Burden's "Shoot"-
A controversial performance piece where the artist had his friend shoot at him. The shot accidentally hit him.
Carolee Schneeman
Liberating art that consisted of her suspended with paint brushes, painting the walls, or pulling objects out of her body. Amazing work that provokes a positive feeling, even if it is considered extreme.
The Audiences' role
[Why did no audience member stop these actions from happening to the respective artists?]
What is performance without the audience?
Performance Art, Body Art, Action Art
Performance implies an audience even if the audience is a camera.
Performance is? The vanishing image? An interruption of the moment? Interaction with the environment?
Art and Object
READING: A Short History of Minimalism
Donald Judd
An incredibly vocal artist of the minimalist movement. Hated being called a minimalist but made arguments for the movement.
Humorous takes on how painting is "Dead"
Tony Smith
Dan Flavin- Worked with neon lights to create sculptures that evoke eternity or the opposite. Arrangements and gallery spaces are a huge component.
A look at minimalism, it's critics and the artists (primarily Donald Judd) making the case for the movement
Modernists looking down upon minimalism
Sculpture in the Expanded Field
Robert Smithson -
Artist who used land as the canvas for his sculptural works
Spiral Jetty-
a large sculpture in utah/great salt lake that consisted of volcanic rock formed into a spiral. sometimes the work is submerged in water depending on how high or low the water is during the season
Anish Kapoor
others
Expanding Cinema
Paul Sharits "T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G -
Use of loops and flicker lights. Strange use of sound. The film evokes anxiety and claustrophobia. Existentialist in its nature.
Len Lye-
Handmade cinema. Painting on the film's surface. Very musical and rhythmic.
Structural Film
characteristics include:
Fixed camera position,
flicker effect,
loop
Michael Snow "Wavelength"
Stan Brackhage-
Handmade cinema, painting or scratching the film's surface. Alot like Len Lye but more focused on the destruction of the film's surface.
Materiality of film
Reading Iles "Still Moving"
Bruce Nauman "spinning spheres
Robert Morris use of dancers coincides with performance. The human body.
HANDMADE CINEMA
Meanings and Materials
Kara Walker
works include silhouettes of African Americans- this work is made to uncover white supremacy and highlight unfair stereotypes
Material to create a visceral and powerful experience.
Kevin Jerome Emerson
"Ninety-Three" Short film -
a 3 min short film consisting of a slow motion image of an older man blowing out candles on a birthday cake. Black and white.
Time and motion as material
Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Instituions and their roles
Polarizing module that dealt with exhibitions that showed work by incarcerated artists
Questions were raised in class: is this exploitation?
Great works by artists Cameron Rowland among others.
Attica Desk is a powerful series made from furniture that prisoners at attica state prison (notorious for it's revolt) made.
Institutional Critique
Today
Hans Haacke
Fred Wilson
Wilson utilizes the permanent collections of art museums to form new meanings - by using objects in the collections arranged in specific ways, the relation ship between the objects comment on white supremacy, slavery, and inequality. Often controversial as audiences seem to have a hard time looking at these relationships and truths
READING: Lorde- The Master's Tools
Lorde writes about the lack of diversity in art institutions and how the black, lesbian experience is often disregarded or treated as niche. She describes her own experience in art-academic circles and the struggle's and frustrations that she endures.
