Conceptual Art, Performance Art and Installation HUM week 5

so lewitt explained concpetual art like this:

in conceptual art the idea of concept is the most important aspect of the work, it means that all the planning and decisions are made before hand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art.

vito akanchi challenged himself to

follow random passerbys until they entered a private space he said “I am almost not an I anymore, I put myself in the service of this scheme.”

Ian burn Xerox book

he took a piece of paper and copied it over and over again for 100 times

Lucy Lepard described what was happening at the time as?

a dematerialization

Douglas Hubler number six

he put saw dust in front of a door way and documented it for 6 hours and then what was left of it became the final piece

• the world is full of objects more or less interesting, i do not wish to add anymore, i prefer simply to state the existence of things in terms of time and/or place

what kossouth is doing with the chairs is?

pointing out the existence of things out of time and place

duchamp was the og concpetual artist with the wheel and stool piece true or false

truee

john baldessari is known as the?

god father of conceptual art and a master of appropiation, a surreialist for the digital age

johns awards and honors include:

membership in the American academy of arts and letters, american academy of arts and sciences, and the golden lion for life at the venice beanille

john believes people will remember him as?

the giy who put dots on peoples faces

john was born in

national city californina

In 1970, the American artist John Baldessari cremated every painting he had made between 1953 and 1966, and promised not to

make any more boring art.

john likes the director

jean luc godard

john believes every young artist should know these three things

1. talent is cheap

2. you have to be possessed which you cant will

3. be at the right place at the right time

futurists wanted people to think they were?

mad

futurists said that __ was the only way to reach a mass audience

performance

hugo ball and emmy hennigns created?

cafe voltaire

antonin artaud was a surrealist and he theorized what was called?

a theatre of cruelty, proposing a direct communication between the spectator and the spectacle

cage had shared with his students hus understanding of?

music as it relates to xen buddhismhat art should not be separate from life, but in action within life, with all of the accidents and chaos and occasinal beauty that entails

what is important about performance is that

human beings are always afraid of very simple thing, pain, suffering, mortality, so waht im doing is staging this kind of fear in a audience and using that energy to perform

balkan baroque

she washed the blood off the bones of baby cows, the problem is that its impossible even if you wrk on it for six hours like she did. Just like how it is impossible to wash away the death and pain from any war.

Moma performance

she sat eight horus everyday in that chair for three months and the point was for strangers to come and sit in front of her if they felt like it

Ann Hamilton

Tangible Absence: Making S E N S E of Speciesism

Ann Hamilton defines herself as a

maker.

Ann Hamilton defines herself as a maker.

She invites the viewer to experience vast spaces

that activate all of the senses through the

arrangement of

objects, textiles, video projections,

the use of sound, voice, and the presence of

animals and humans

Her work often features an accumulation of objects:

750,000 pennies; 18,000 folded work shirts, 5,000

square feet of woven horsehair, thousands of

images of scanned dead animals.

Time functions as both a material and a theme in

her work. Viewers can sense the

time invested in

shaping the installation. Her exhibitions often span

months and transform over the duration.

Speciesism

Philosopher and animal rights advocate, Peter Singer defines speciesism as “…a

prejudice or bias in favor of the interests of the members of one’s own species and

against those of members of another species.”

People who oppose speciesism compare it to

to racism and sexism, arguing that giving

humans greater rights than other species is as amoral as giving men or white people

greater rights than women or racial minorities in a white society.

Most philosophers from Aristotle on focused on the question of whether or not animals could reason or use

language to try to determine the degree to which we should

expand our moral parameters to include their well-being.

In the 19th c., the father of Utilitarian Philosophy, Jeremy Bentham, argues that it isn’t their capacity for reason that matters--it’s the fact that?

they suffer. Once we acknowledge their suffering and their mortality, the foundations for compassion are established.

Posthumanism decenters human beings in an ecological context. According to a posthumanist philosophy, the human occupies a new place in a universe that is inhabited by nonhuman subjects. Posthumanists like

Cary Wolfe argue that the reason we should care about nonhuman life forms (such as animals) is not because they are LIKE us, but because they are NOT like us. There are different ways of being in the world that deserve respect and protection

Privation and Excesses: 1989

750,000 pennies coated in honey covering a 45‘X32’ floor.

A lone figure wringing its hands over a felt hat filled with honey

A pen of grazing sheep.

Two motorized mortar and pestlesground a bowl of pennies and a bowl of human teeth.

When the show closed, they cleaned the pennies and used them to cover the cost of the exhibit.

Tropos: 1994

Dia Center for the Arts, NYC

Tropos: 1994

Dia Center for the Arts, NYC Materials: translucent industrial glass windows, gravel topped with concrete, horsehair, table, chair, electric buren, books, recorded voice, audiotape, audiotape player, speakers. The Greek word "tropos" means turn, as in a physical turn of the body. The biological term "tropism" denotes the reflex reaction or response of an organism to turn toward or away from external stimuli, such as light. In Literary terms, “tropos” is the root of the word, “trope”, which means a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.

__ is essential in anns art

time

compassion means to share?

in the suffering of others

transhumanisms

we are already cyborgs all of these technologies are already part of us, we are so dependent on it that were basically that

posthumanism

decenters humans in a ecolocigcal context, carewolf says that eventhough they arent like us we should still care for animals

her coin piece means

💡 Meaning and Concept

• 🍯 The Honey and the Copper: The pennies were stuck to the gallery floor in a vast rectangular field coated in a sticky layer of honey. [1]

• ⚖ Economic Contrasts: Hamilton juxtaposed the biological, natural "animal economy" (represented by honey and live sheep present in the space) with the human-made, abstracted "exchange economy" of money (the pennies). [1, 2]

• 🪙 Value Transformation: The face value of the coins (the price) served as both the physical medium and the literal production budget; after the exhibition, the pennies were washed in a cement mixer and recounted to pay for the operational costs of the project

sheep are deprived of natural world, human made excess and animals that are led to deprevation

she made a peice where she wove?

over 5000 pieces of horse hair and her friends dad has aphasia from a stroke she recorded him speaking but it was muffled but you couldnt make sense of thelangyage only make out some words and she burned out the words of a book si you couldnt understand what the book was about,the person was instructed to ignore people and not explain anything so ehw anted us to see the world in the perspective of an animal, smoke, horse hair smell, tropos is exploring what you are going to turn towards, because you are an organism reacting to stimuli

perigrine

piece of a bunch of books where you had to choose a book and read it outloud in the room and they all ahd to do with animals because of wwII readers reading readers she wanted poeple to contribute quotes to that tumbler about animals from teh books they recieved

she had many taxidermied animals with

quotes

Core Artistic Focus:

• Her work explores a "very fundamental act of making," combining sculpture, textiles, sound, film, and the human presence.

• She views verbal and visual language as interchangeable. [1, 2]

Mouth-Operated Pinhole Cameras

• Hamilton places a miniature pinhole camera inside her mouth, unblocks the aperture, and reopens her lips to expose the film.

• She describes this process as standing completely still, face-to-face with another person "like soul to soul," capturing an intimate essence deeper than surface appearances.

• Because the mouth's shape resembles an eye, the resulting portrait looks like a pupil.

Featured Projects in the Segment:

• ghost: a border act: Filmed on location during the creation of this installation in Lexington, Virginia.

• Bubble Experiments: Footage also follows her to her home in Columbus, Ohio, experimenting with giant floor-to-ceiling soap bubbles.