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Contemporary Art, Performace Art, Expanded media- By pushing boundaries…
Contemporary Art
Performace Art
Objecthood- a variety of artist have brought about a new meaning to objecthood by exploring new ideas of what is considered an object and what is considered art
Judd, 'Specific Objects', " if changes in art are compared backwards, there always seems to be a reduction, since only old attributes are counted and these things are always fewer. But obviously new things are more, such as Oldenburg's techniques and materials."
Carolee Schneemann, 'Internal Scroll'', she is using the vagina as the art object, this was significant because it encouraged the exploration of boundaries of traditional objecthood by using the body in an untraditional way
Yoko Ono, 'Cut Piece', it shows a clear relationship between the viewer and the object, you could interpret the artist’s body as the art object.
Mary Duffy, 'Stories of a Body' performance,1990,shows her disabled, nude, unarmed women's body as object/ subject to convey her message
Chris Burden's 'Shoot', shows the extreme extent an artist will go, challenges the boundaries of what is considered art, considers audiences reaction to an arranged dangerous situation, their ability/ inability to intervene. Abstracts the human body as art object.
Rirkrit Tiravanija, 'Pad Thai', the object is the Pad Thai, you watch the maker cook, eat the Pad Thai and then leave. Considering experience, the art of making. The cooking is the performance, the artist is the maker. Shifts how we thing about art object.
Allen Kaprow, interested in how art can merge with daily life, allows audience to participate in event. Creates situations in a space, often public spaces in everyday life.
Taylor, Performance, "Since the 1960's, artists have used their bodies to challenge regimens of power and social norms, placing the body front and center in artistic practice- no longer the object depicted in paintings, or sculpture, or film, or photography but the living flesh and breath of the act itself
Expanded media- By pushing boundaries and combining different mediums artists were able to expand their work and explore material investigation. This allowed for a wider range of art to be made and for new techniques to be discovered.
Short History of Minimalism, by Kye Chayka, new practices evolving in expanded media are derived from practices in the past, nothing is completely original
Kameelah Janan Rasheed, uses text and language, considers what words convey as well as how they appear in a space, the concept of a word as well as what it is trying to say, how words relate to one another, she considers how she presents herself to the world in a way that's appeasing to people vs not making herself known until she is ready. Active collaboration between reader and writer.
Bell Hook's 'Radical Openness', " language is also a place of struggle", she talks about how margins can be a place of power and creativity, how it can allow for new, alternative and oppositional perspectives. The lived experience of being in the margin could inform the way people speak about or perceive these issues of oppression. It could become a place of radical openness and possibility for new ideas.
Melvin Edwards, Some Bright Morning (Lynch Fragment Series), Hhis work investigates the historical context of materials
Flusser Form and Material, "Whatever 'material may mean, it cannot mean the opposite of 'immaterial'. For the 'immaterial' or, to be more precise the form is that which makes material appear in the first place. The appearance of the material is form."
Sculpture in the Expanded Field
Amber Cowen, she is able to transform and update this old glass into something new and contemporary while still acknowledging the history behind the material. Her investigation of material as well as exploring the historical significance behind her material allowed for her to expand her practice and use her medium in a nontraditional way.
Krauss, 'Expanded Sculpture", “The new is made comfortable by being made familiar, since it is seen as having gradually evolved from the forms of the past" She saw that Postmodernist sculpture had expanded far from what came before, and t instead of simply concluding that certain artworks weren’t sculpture because they didn’t align with historical precedent, she looked for a way to expand the field with a new framework which would make a place for them in it.
Land Art in Utah, these earthworks interact with the environment and adapt with nature. Juxtaposing the manmade objects with natural environments.
Donald Judd, an artist/ art critic who worked with geometric shape, he saw minimalist art as simple, creative, yet complex. he said " a work only needs to be interesting"
Senga Nengudi, known for playing with material, often works with nylon pantyhose's which she stretches', fills with materials, pins to walls or ceilings, etc. interactive pieces, freedom through material and spaces, taking familiar object and giving new purpose to found materials and the space it is in.
Minimalism
Tony Smith's 'Die' This was controversial because people questioned if the work would be considered art, or an object. Smiths work relied on the viewer to assign meaning.
Michael Fried’s 'Art and Objecthood', he suggests this work is “non-art”, as hollow or having no meaning. He argued art should be autonomous, and speak for itself
Dan Flavin, worked with florescent light, he considered how the lights would interact with the architecture by making decisions about placement and orientation. “easy in, easy out,” Flavin said: have your encounter and move on, because that’s all it is. "it is what it is and it ain't nothing else"
Jason Pollock, exploring what painting itself is as a medium, motion of paint on surface, encourages future artist to challenge representational strategies, what an where painting can go
Expanded Cinema
Stan Van Der Beek in his Movie Drome. He integrated the use of light, music, film, live bands, projected images, and architecture to create a specific environment and ambiance. This was an important moment in regard to expanded medium/media because it allowed for the mixing of all of these different mediums to come together in one space, which had not previously been seen.
Paul Sharit in his short film, T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G, by combining multiple medias in the way that he did, he was able to create an immersive experience that impacts the audience in a significant way while watching this film
Iles, 'Still Moving', "Minimalist artist engaged the viewer in a phenomenological experience of objects in relation to the architectural dimensions of the gallery- not the pictorial space- transforming actual space into a perceptual field."
