Saturday, May 15, 2010

Summary of art and audience presentation

RESONS FOR GENEROSITY AND EXCHANGE IN ART


gift sculptures: The audience is a guest. . . The art object is a gift.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Felix Gonzales-Torres

Claire Twomby (Victoria & Albert Museum)


democracy projects: privilege of distribution, performance of funding is redistributed. community authorship and collective action

The Chiapas photography project


confrontational/detournment:

questioning the politics of unequal distribution of wealth

The act of giving becomes a criticism of not giving,

Guy Overfelt (Free beer)

Michael Rokowitz (Parasite)


social aesthetics:artists work collaboratively within a community to create something that directly benefits that community

Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel (Mnemonics 1992) (p409 Art and Today)

Some blocks were left open to be filled by successive graduating classes.


PARTICIPATION AND COMMUNITY


Jaemen: Christos & Jeanne Claude

Jaemen: HAHA + Flood


Ruth: Francis Alys

Ruth: Agnes Denes


PARTICIPATION AND ACTIVISM


Jaemen: The Yes Men

Jaemen: Monument Against Fascism (Jochen Gerz & Esther Shalev Gerz)


Ruth: Wafaa Bilal

Jaemen/Ruth: Santiago Sierra


INTERACTIVE ART


Jaemen: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer


Ruth: Claire Twomey, Consciousness/Conscience

Ruth: Olafur Eliasson (Multiple shadow house)


Jaemen: Maurizio Cattelan (Dynamo Secession)



MISCELLANEOUS: MOTIVATING AUDIENCE


Jaemen: Improv Everywhere (no pants subway, human mirror)

Ruth: Harrell Fletcher (The Sound we Make Together)


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