done by artist Allison Schulnik. Great stop animation with plasticine - but reminded me of working in wet clay.
grizzly bear - ready, able
Friday, July 16, 2010
Miwon Kwon article
Miwon Kwon One Place After Another; Site specific art and locational identity
The intro chapter was a good overview of "site-specific" work from the late 1960's to the present (see Kara and Ashley's presentation). I am most interested in what Kwon brings up as the shift from site specificity to community specificity in what is coined "new genre public art". This kind of art engages the audience, and the community as active participants in the conceptualization and production of the project.
I was living in Chicago the public art program “CULTURE IN ACTION” came out curated by Mary Jane Jacob. Organized for Sculpture Chicago, it took place over a two-year period (1991-93); artists worked in direct partnership with community members to explore the changing nature of public art, its relationship to social issues, and an expanded role of audience from spectator to participant and offered a new model for art in the urban context.
Kwon divided the works from that show into four different communities; the community of mythic unity, "sited" communities, invented communities (temporary), and invented communities (ongoing). It seems as if it is a difficult task to label public art as a coherent movement as Kwon states that there are numerous inconsistencies and contradictions in the field.
An interesting Project that was going on in NYC in June through Labor Day was by artist Paul Ramirez Jonas' Key to the City. It was a citywide public art project that allows every New Yorker and visitor to open spaces in all five boroughs.
The intro chapter was a good overview of "site-specific" work from the late 1960's to the present (see Kara and Ashley's presentation). I am most interested in what Kwon brings up as the shift from site specificity to community specificity in what is coined "new genre public art". This kind of art engages the audience, and the community as active participants in the conceptualization and production of the project.
I was living in Chicago the public art program “CULTURE IN ACTION” came out curated by Mary Jane Jacob. Organized for Sculpture Chicago, it took place over a two-year period (1991-93); artists worked in direct partnership with community members to explore the changing nature of public art, its relationship to social issues, and an expanded role of audience from spectator to participant and offered a new model for art in the urban context.
Kwon divided the works from that show into four different communities; the community of mythic unity, "sited" communities, invented communities (temporary), and invented communities (ongoing). It seems as if it is a difficult task to label public art as a coherent movement as Kwon states that there are numerous inconsistencies and contradictions in the field.
An interesting Project that was going on in NYC in June through Labor Day was by artist Paul Ramirez Jonas' Key to the City. It was a citywide public art project that allows every New Yorker and visitor to open spaces in all five boroughs.
1st project progress - handbuilt idea 2
My second idea was to create a series of small handheld objects that would be given away.
Inspiration - Wade figurines that were given away in a box of Red Rose Tea.
I've come up with a few series - animals, insects, and rocks, and am making 10 in each series.
issues: how to give away objects - generosity, where to give away objects, instructions on what to do with objects, do instruction follow object to new location, what to do if people just keep object.
1st thoughts were to ask people to take an object and find its color match and leave it in that new location leaving others to find object and do the same - so type instructions on bottom or type on a website.
Inspiration - Wade figurines that were given away in a box of Red Rose Tea.
I've come up with a few series - animals, insects, and rocks, and am making 10 in each series.issues: how to give away objects - generosity, where to give away objects, instructions on what to do with objects, do instruction follow object to new location, what to do if people just keep object.
1st thoughts were to ask people to take an object and find its color match and leave it in that new location leaving others to find object and do the same - so type instructions on bottom or type on a website.
1st project progress - handbuilt idea 1
Last summer I became interested in an article on early American gas stations and how they described them as a "porcelain box". These modular cubes were described as "a metal-and-glass shell with a porcelain enamel interior and a concrete floor".
My first step in the process is to make scaled down ceramic cubes of 5 of the earlier service stations. Above is the 12 x 18 metal portable service station, 1933 scaled down to 2 x 3
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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