Week 9 - Postmodernism II: Beyond Traditional Art Media

Phenomenology

• the knowledge of pheromones

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty

• If you were to disappear so would the world

• “I am the absolute source my existence dose not come from my antecedents or my physical and social entourage but rather goes towards them and sustains them…”

• existence is being in the world

Figure-ground

• means to distinguish objects from a background

• to place an object

• placing our selves in relationship to the object

• in relation to the objects being a figure in the environment

• figure with a background

• simple one colour

• object within an environment

Theatre of the actors of regard

• the same performance happens every time

• A constant occurrence (not ironic)

• A person looks at a work of art/someone looks at something

• @henryweatherfield insta

Narcissus Garden

• Orbs out of place within the environment

• installation

• non tradition as you can movie it and take it home

Stack

• attached to the wall and not the ground

• does not exist centrally in a room (like on a plinth)

not interested in doing the same thing again - wanted to break from the cycle

privileged artwork as it demands a space, doesn’t make sense when taken out of gallery - DON JUDD, 1975 critique (he was both an artist and a critic)

artworks being formed by its context