Friday, March 28, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
3/19/08 Missed Class -Rudolph Stingel
Read about Stingel in old Art In America mag. He lined walls in space woth Celotex-a shiny material able to be imprinted on my wrinting drawing etc. Stingel invited people to leave their mark on the walls of silver and boy did they!! Reminiscent of a fancy bathroom stall this installation got mass response from people. Marks and notes and gum adorned the walls. People do have a desire to leave a mark on the world-from the Lacroix cave paintings to reverse graffitti to for a good time call... when givin a place to comment mostly anonymously people don't hesitate. i'm curious if people do sign their names to the marks or just do it on the sly.
3/17/08 McColl Phantasmagoria Show
This show rocked!!!! So much inovation and creation. I enjoyed the old lady shadow with the book, because it challenged the space in the room and the fact that there is enough substance in this shadow to hold up a book. Loved the death notices on the mirrors you had to breathe on to see. The idea that these images on the plates were about death and you had to use your life breathe to view them. The wall of sound was amazing, really curious how this was done, going back tonite may have to ask. Really liked that it was completely interactive i saw fellow students getr eal excited about this piece. Rare that people get this excited about art. It has truely come a long long way from classic painting and alarms in museums that keep you away from the art. This art only works if the viewer is no longer a viewer but an active part of the work. I want a smoking bench at home- this fulfilled one of my recurring fantasies-to dissappear. I will be driving somewhere usually in the country and I'll get this longing to just vanish from my life, to dissappear and go somewhere no one knows me and I can start over. A new life created fresh from the smoke of my vanishing. This seems to be a sort of freedom from myself that I will never know, but the smoking bench got me closer. Thank you smoking bench!
Friday, March 14, 2008
Class Comments 3/12/08
These two are truley inspirational artists...
Cai Guo Qiang you know I loved his work, and his philosophy. I am very drawn to Eastern ideas and methods, they seem so much more thoughtful and aware than western ideologies. Also there is a concerted lack of control like when Qiang says he lets the gunpowder lead him sometimes and how he enjoys having obstacles to overcome. I really liked what he said about his art being about those "other things that you don't say " directly, this is intrigueing cause it infers there is more going on than what meets the eye. What he says aboutt he power and beauty of destruction and the aesthetic of decay show an incite into the underlying nature of the universe and his thoughts on the " aesthettic of pain" in reference to the tigers. amazing concept that you can make people feel pain just by what they are looking at. I think advertisers knew this along time ago, and ahve been using it to control the masses for awhile now.
Tim Hawkinson has to be one of the quirkiest artist I've been exposed to. It is important no crucial that thre are people like this who think so far outside the box that thebox doesn't exist to them. to tim I imagine anything is possible and he can probably build it. his environments really seemed to engage and inspire people of all ages to wonder and delight in the world.He truely has a freshness when looking at the world that even some children do not seem to have. i wonder what it is about our culture that kills this wonder in so many of us? I wonder if we could all be abidextrous had we not been told to "choose" a hand to write with? Why is imagination such a dangerous thing to some people? Why do we allow ourselves to be lead and blindly participate in someone elses reality instead of creating our own?
Cai Guo Qiang you know I loved his work, and his philosophy. I am very drawn to Eastern ideas and methods, they seem so much more thoughtful and aware than western ideologies. Also there is a concerted lack of control like when Qiang says he lets the gunpowder lead him sometimes and how he enjoys having obstacles to overcome. I really liked what he said about his art being about those "other things that you don't say " directly, this is intrigueing cause it infers there is more going on than what meets the eye. What he says aboutt he power and beauty of destruction and the aesthetic of decay show an incite into the underlying nature of the universe and his thoughts on the " aesthettic of pain" in reference to the tigers. amazing concept that you can make people feel pain just by what they are looking at. I think advertisers knew this along time ago, and ahve been using it to control the masses for awhile now.
Tim Hawkinson has to be one of the quirkiest artist I've been exposed to. It is important no crucial that thre are people like this who think so far outside the box that thebox doesn't exist to them. to tim I imagine anything is possible and he can probably build it. his environments really seemed to engage and inspire people of all ages to wonder and delight in the world.He truely has a freshness when looking at the world that even some children do not seem to have. i wonder what it is about our culture that kills this wonder in so many of us? I wonder if we could all be abidextrous had we not been told to "choose" a hand to write with? Why is imagination such a dangerous thing to some people? Why do we allow ourselves to be lead and blindly participate in someone elses reality instead of creating our own?
Monday, March 10, 2008
Class Comments 3/10/08
Lots of great sources in class today! Huge fan of graffitti art for a long time, got to see some aamzing sh--t in SF bay area. Also NYC and DC. There was a place in SF calledd Psycho City( have ti dig out my negs-yes that old.)it changed dailey sometimes it was a huge parking lot in near Tenderloin and Van Ness where it was legal to do work. Literally so much paint on those walls it was thick thick inches probably. And like a truley public art space, but you rarely saw peopel working even thoguh it changed constantly.Went to school with a guy named twist barry something or other and his girlfriend ruby who both became pretty large in that scene. I remeber i show of twist in museum there that had his stealth tagger coat with extra pockets and spots for tips and such. It was like artist survival gear .Like Bikes against bush,. I'm super impressed by artists whoa re also scientists. This crosses many barriers and frightenens all the right people. The spider lady also addressed a different genre of art today similar to the moss artsist but different from Morales agressive machines. Morales and Theo Jansen are the mad scientist/artist and the other two work from amore natural subversion. All of this is leaps and bounds from what art was 100 years ago. i almost shudder to think what is to come.... almost.
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