1. Representing time 2. Embodying time Kinetic art Performance ...

1. Representing time
TIME
2. Embodying time
Kinetic art
Performance-based art forms: performance, happening, event
Time-based media art forms: video, film, interactive new
media
Installation art
Process art

Drawing as process
William Kentridge
Felix in Exile

PUBLIC - PRIVATE
Artists working in the public sphere
Expectations towards art:
What do we want from art?
What does art do?
What is it for?
Vocabulary words:
Richard Serra: Tilted Arc
Barbara Kruger
Jenny Holzer
Krzysztof Wodiczko

Expectations towards art?
Alex Melamid & Vitaly Komar: Most Wanted Paintings 1995

Do we need a PARADIGM CHANGE
(a new way of looking at and thinking about art) ?
Instead of asking
“Is this art?”
The right question to ask:
“Why is this art?”
“What does it do?”
“How does it relate to my experience of life?
Or, how does it reveal new experiences/possibilities?”

Richard Serra: Tilted Arc
1981-89 Federal Plaza, Manhattan, NY
Commissioned by the U.S. General Services Administration's Arts-in-Architecture program.
“If sculpture has any potential at all, it has the potential to work
in contradiction to the places and spaces where it is created”
Serra

←
PRIVATE sphere → ← PUBLIC sphere
→
Artist is both a private and a public individual.
Artist’s role is to mediate between private and public.
- artwork is created for public presentation;
- expressing a issue of public interest through individual voice;
- giving voice to a silent minority, an issue, a community;
- artist intentions for the artwork may be in conflict
with the public’s

Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger

Jenny Holzer: Truisms

Krzysztof Wodiczko
Tijuana Projection

Krzysztof Wodiczko
Hiroshima Projection

Homework Writing Assignment:
You are a reporter this week, assessing the public’s perception of, and
reaction to a chosen piece of public art in Seattle.
Start by finding a piece of contemporary public art (see City of Seattle’s
public art maps) and go to visit it.
Describe the work and do some background research on the artist and
content of the art.
While you are visiting the artwork, interview 3 passersby to find out what
they think about it. Plan out some questions to ask in advance, in order
to understand what people expect from art in the public space.
What is your reaction to their comments?
How would you explain the value/meaning of the artwork to others?
Present a summary of your findings a one page report.
Note: you cannot be interviewing your friends/family/classmates; Politely
engage random passersby in conversation.
The art you select must be on the city’s public art map. It may not be
architecture, a historic place, or graffiti and other kinds of street art.
DUE: Sunday, November 21th 11pm in the Dropbox