Monday: Audio Art Critique
Please have your work posted on the blog – including a title, and a description of the piece.
Wednesday:
Complete critiques
Lecture: Conceptual Portrait
Assignment: Conceptual Portrait
Make a CONCEPTUAL PORTRAIT*
A photo series, a collection of things, an audio work, a found-object sculpture, a series of data-oriented drawings, or a video.
Maximum limit for time-based works of 3 minutes.
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“In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work… all planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art.”
Sol Lewitt, from Peter Osborne, Conceptual Art, Phaidon, Themes & Movements
“The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can’t be understood without understanding the system. It isn’t what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance. “
Sol Lewitt
For this open media project you will create a representation of something, or someone – in a non-literal way. How can you represent the intangible, and invisible aspects of reality?
You will create your conceptual portrait by using a system – like a rule, a formula, a series of tasks, or an experiment to plan and create the work.
Let the system be the “machine that makes the art.”
Consider creating a work that is:
A series of repeated gestures or actions that are documented or found
Modified found objects to change their purpose or meaning
A work made strictly by adhering to instructions, and documenting what is done
A series of similar-photos or video clips – taken or found – that come together to create deeper meaning than the images individually
Creative documentation of self-observation
A task-based experiment in any media with results unknown in advance, present results
Some artist references:
| Christian Marclay Mel Bochner On Kawara The Bechers Hiroshi Sugimoto John Baldessari Kelly Mark Germaine Koh Sandy Plotnikoff Spring Hurlbut | Felix Gonzales Torres Micah Lexier Germaine Koh Sophie Calle Tom Friedman Douglas Gordon Roula Partheniou Hannah Black Dean Baldwin Katie Patterson |
Readings:
Read the two PDFs available about the work of Tom Friedman, and Micah Lexier
Consider how each of these artists use systems, series’, and documents of process in their production. Consider the eccentric strategies artists bring to interpreting “data” and the unique tools and insights artists employ to understanding the world.
Look at the referenced works, and other works available on line.
Be prepared to discuss a work you appreciate by each artist in class.
Come prepared for an in-depth discussion of the readings, and your project ideas next class.
Present a proposal of your ideas in the next class:
Create a proposal for this assignment below. Write about references from the lecture that inform your thinking – use images and prepare to discuss your proposal in our next class meeting:
*See schedule for work time and critique dates.