Posts Tagged ‘ art history ’
There are so many reasons. Here is one, quoted from the blog Metro Times: “Fluxus artists were irresistible art flirts and menaces. They refused tickets to snobs, patronized critics and dared the public to find a point to art. They pushed the boundaries of what is considered art and, as Fluxus artist Nam [ READ MORE ]
It all started with trying to identify a painting with nested green squares. We had a strong feeling that the painter’s name started with an A. A few Google searches later, we found it. But the image led us to this great website out of Amsterdam. “The Institute of Artificial Art.” Enjoy. [ READ MORE ]
A great site I learned about through Facebook. This post in particular caught our eye – especially now that we’ve officially launched the UPP. Always a fan of Chris Burden. [ READ MORE ]
“I try hard never to forget that art is essentially a game of signification, and that in our capacity as artists, we always endeavor to ask questions, to search, and to play.” - Joseph Kosuth [ READ MORE ]
An article from today’s NYTimes Opinion pages about the traditions of “conceptual art“ [ READ MORE ]
Marlene Dumas famously wrote, “lf a Prostitute is a person / who makes it a profession/ to gratify the lust of various persons / for economical reasons or gain, / where emotional involvement may / or may not be present— / Then it seems not so far removed / from my definition of an artist.” [ READ MORE ]
So the first piece that we re-performed was Vito Acconci’s Centers. We then decided to start looking for performance that could utilize our relationship. Performances that incorporated two bodies in their original intention, and ideally works that were concerned with the nature, energy and dynamics of relationship. [ READ MORE ]
So this is a new idea: re-performing objects. We started with Longo sort of arbitrarily – we love his work, but probably wouldn’t have chosen it as a beginning for our investigation of material culture through performing the objects of that culture. We’ve worked for a long time around the idea of object/surroundings informing identity. For [ READ MORE ]
“31. If an artist uses the same form in a group of works, and changes the material, one would assume the artist’s concept involved the material.” What does it mean to re-perform a drawing? Even if the original drawing was life-sized? How does involving the body – as a viewer, as opposed to a producer – [ READ MORE ]
This is the best piece of advice that we gave today: The way to understand Art is to say it the way you imagine a seal would, in the middle of the night, at the top of your lungs, eight times fast: “ART! ART! ART! ART! ART! ART! ART! ART!” Videotape that, put it on your blog and [ READ MORE ]