Pretty crazy

Here Are some images of our installation for class today.

books

hi you guys

i was telling andrew about my friend jonathan callan, an artist in london who makes sculptures out of books.

in fact he has a show in nyc right now at nicole klagsbrun gallery

here's more about jon

and another
and another

this has jon and some other artists who work with books:

more book art

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Bio-Hazard Installment

Rachel, Roey, and I installed our project for this Thursday. Go check it out and leave a comment!

Solveig, a girl graffiti artist, aged 10, is the female Banksy

10 years old

blog link

Hi guys,
Here is a link to my blog, idyllicland. I've been using it for more than a year now and always adding things I come across or stuff I'm working on. I also have a growing list of links and websites you might find interesting. I'll continue posting on the class blog whenever I find things relevant to keep ideas going.
-Rachel

Cool Things

Hey everyone,

I stumbled across this link today after class and it had some really cool pictures of street installations. I suggest you all check it out!

http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/outside.html

homework, etc

hi guys

here are some links from thursday's conversation:
rand corporation
fred wilson on art 21

building as body (installation at university of southern maine) website
building as body class blog

you should check out this artist:
mark dion
we talked about his
tate thames dig
but i think you'd like a lot of his work. some other artists whose installations you should check out include:
olafur eliasson
check out this show, becoming animal, at mass moca
i think you'll like sam easterson's movies he makes by strapping cameras to buffalos.

also for more animal/art/natural science, check out:
tim hawkinson
bill burns
critial art ensemble/beatriz de costa

ok, this is the homework for next week:
-read the fred wilson article and think about the display conventions people in the class reported on last week, ie, how the lighting at tiffany's contributes to the sense of value and uniqueness, how "magik" uses smells and sounds to create a sense of altered reality. chose an object that has personal meaning to you, may be a keepsake or something you made, and make 3 propsals for ways you could display it to change the viewer's interpretation of the object's meaning.

like wilson in his project "rooms with a view: the struggle between cultural content and the context of art," i want you to really consider how different conventions of display influence our sense of the meaning, value, function, origin, etc of the object. the 3 ideas are essentially proposals for a work that will be completed by the viewer: your installation is successful if the audience is so convinced by the context that they believe the new meaning of the object.

the proposals can be for installations you can't actually execute- ie, they can require resources or fabrication skills that are not actually available to us, feel free to brainstorm- but they should be ideas you'd really like to relize in public space. in class next week, we will discuss the propsals and generate some ideas for recontextualized objects that we will actually execute for feb. 26.

also, please read brian odoherty's article "nots on the gallery space" from inside the white cube, be prepared to discuss. continue to look for orphan spaces, and check out gordon matta clark's fake estates

for thursday, you should bring images of more orphan spaces you've found on campus, and digital and printed copies of your 3 proposals. also, bring paper and stuff to draw with. email me if you have questions, and think about whether you are free to go on a field trip to providence on sat feb 21
thanks
-deborah

Powell-Peralta

I am a big skateboard art fan. Especially Skateboard Art from the late 80's early 90's. One of my favorites Powell-Peralta had a recent show. The gallery installation was pretty interesting. Here is a link to the site that has a video showcasing the show. http://powell-peralta.com/features/rip-the-ripper/

Keep on truckin"

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are enjoying the new blog. Check out this video. I think it blends Art, Music, and Video Very well. Also check out the artists website BluBlu The site is in a sketchbook format which I think is cool. You might know him as the guy who did that animated painting on the walls.

Outside the Art World

Two artists I think really show how you can work within the artworld, and outside of it, a happy medium I guess, is Kate Erickson and Mel Ziegler. The fact that some works of theirs are hard to find on the internet should attest to this. They do a lot of public art, like for one project, called House Monument, they put enough planks of wood to build a house in a gallery space, with all different quotes about homes on them. The viewer could move the the planks to expose different quotes. They used the wood to build a house for a family, and part of the deal was that none of the wood with the quotes could show when the house was finished. Talk about refusing to let art be a commodity! Anyway, I have a book that I will bring to class........because their art works are really original, and are often nonpermanent, and involve the general public. Basically, they rock.

Shepar Fairey Arrested

Hey everyone,

I figured we were talking about Fairey in class, and as I was checking the news I saw this and thought it was interesting:

http://news.aol.com/article/artist-of-famed-obama-poster-arrested/333192

phish links

phish.com

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/21/31568776_493d60b215.jpg?v=0
this is an image of a rock garden, a field of rocks that fans could move, manipulate and construct privative sculptures

there are many many more images etc if you search....

arj
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Spencer Tunic/ Phish festivals

http://www.spencertunick.com/
this is his official site.

For those who don't remember, Spencer Tunic was mentioned during our first discussion. He photographs mass groups of willing volunteers laying down, sitting up or standing up completely nude (coed). The work, which he refers to as temporary installations, are done in semi public venue. By semi public I mean the area is legally used but removed from general public use, much like an event in a park. Some venues have been parks, beaches, and museums. The pieces are obviously the most temporary of temporary installations but the moment of the event is captured in the photo. The way the bodies compare and contrast in size, shape, color, and organic qualities is sculpturally genuine in an intense natural sense. Tunic also takes deep consideration into the site in which the nudes are displayed. For instance he organizes the bodies in positions that are SITE SPECIFIC. For example, if he were to do one in the tall trees of the redwood forest he would most likely have the people standing tall to reflect the trees. If he were doing the shoot in an urban park he would have the people laying flat in the streets. The actual act of organizing the bodies is done completely random. Basically the people wait behind a line, like at the start of a marathon, then once the line is dropped run into position and follow the orders " lay down. sit up. stand up. hold it. okay your done!!" The picture is taken to capture the moment. So in my eyes the actual art is in the moments before the image is captured rather than the final "framed finished photo". What a different way to look at the idea of a TEMPORARY installation!!!

My experience with his work was through a documentary featuring the jam band Phish (my absolute favorite band). The band commissioned him to compose a "nude photo" at the bands finale: a three day festival in Limestone Maine called the Great Went. This brings me to my next "topic". The band puts on festivals, normally at the end of a long tour, to celebrate and bring closure to the tour. The festivals are normally in remote locations ( the second to last one was in Limestone Maine, a small town of 300 people 1 mile form the Canadian border). Unlike other festivals, Phish is the headlining act and the only act for the nearly 80,000 fans in attendance. Apart from the music, the band puts on events during non show times for the fans. This is the relevant part for this class. The band finds art to be an intense way of interacting and communicating with the fans. Installations are an important part if not the most important part of this experience. This includes such exhibits as "The sunken city", a nostaglic city half buried in the ground and allows people to walk in, through and around the buildings. The "tower" was an interactive sculpture that complied pieces of wood painted and cut by the fans throughout the weekend that ended with the bands "piece of the work" being passed through the crowd, like a band member crowd surfing, to the site, attached to the fans pieces then lit on fire and left to burn for the remainder of the festival/ tour finale. One event that reminded me of the project that Deborah told us about fro her teaching in Cali that involve the student staging the death to cause a change in traffic, is the visual maze. This included a series of different experience taht manipulated and distorted poeple as they move through the space. Different experiences were a bubble room, where so many bubbles were produced that the person loses their orientation, a mirror room, a fog room, and one of those rooms where the lights spin around the people as they walk through the bridge and makes the walk uneasy. These and many other events are interactive installations that the band appreciates and encourages its fans to partake. The band also organizes a design/live program where artists are given housing and studio space in the bands former recording studio in Bearsville, Vt., to design and create art, most often sculpture, in conjunction with the band. This is not as relevant to the course as the Tunic info but I found inspirational and interesting how two different forms of fine art can compliment each other while entertaining and engaging the fans of both.

arj
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new to blog

Hey guys I have never done this before so I might have some questions at the beginning. If I am doing the blogging wrong can someone tell me asap so I can get the hang of it faster. Thanks. See you all soon.
-jackson

hi installation group

here are some artists and works we talked about on thursday:
art worker's coalition
vito acconci (seed bed)
hans haacke moma visitor's poll
(for a really thorough treatment of the rise of the museum of modern art and the so called international style of exhibitions, check out "the power of display" by mary anne staniszewski, here's a link to eleanor heartney's review of the book)

guggenheim and guggenheim bilbao
frank geary and frank lloyd wright

marcel duchamp, 18 miles of string at the first papers of surrealism

robert smithson spiral jetty
walter de maria lightning fields

ok, see what you can find to keep the conversation going
d

urgent message

hey installation group

i need you to each send me an individual email at daschheim@rwu.edu asap ok?
i want to send you an email about the homework and my new office/office hours

please do it today okay??
deborah

Shepard Fairey

This interview is great to watch because his artwork is actually displayed on the set of the show. What do we think of Shepard Fairey and what are the fine lines between an artist whose work comments on politics but also has become a brand?






-Rachel

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