week 5

28/10/2011 What is art today?

Conceptual art come in to our everyday life and evolves from it. It is composed of a set of ideas that would open up to this type of art. These ideas or concept are most important in this kind of work. For example the famous piece of art (fountain) from Marcel Duchamp who was often associated with the Dadaist movement (anti art movement) we note that he focused on changing the way we look at art. In this particular piece Duchamp made use of an already existing object that he presented in the Louvre in an “out of norm” fashion. As well as Robert Smithson did with his “earthworks” pieces of art that is also named as Site-specific art. In this case the concept of art and the location have a certain relationship. This practice became the way of art in the 21st century.

So as an artist we need to gain confident and think of how to present ourselves, how to get the message across by using these new way and location to exhibit.

We than look at some of Paul’s sound artist work from an old Gommon cinema in which he presented recordings of an old cinema session. The work was shown in a gallery composed of a multi records players set up, that supposably looked like they were simultaneously playing the recordings. Each visitors obtained a book in the form of a record sleeve which contain information about the piece and a copy of the recordings that give the impression of being a small record, a CD on which the grove had been cut on one side. (Really cool and am guessing expensive too!).

An other site-specific art project from the same artist along with Jem Finer was the land scope. This project centred around the Lough Neagh. Using digital sound and video recording and reproduction.

We also looked at a similar sound, site-specific art project composed with a series of location recorded sessions in the Namib Desert. After being edited, the compositions of these sounds were displayed at the national art gallery of Namibia.

So what did I get out of all this is that to help promote yourself you need to have connection and collaborate to make the work more interesting and unusual (to think outside the box, to be disruptive and attract attentions) but also to gain experience. Getting popular artist to look at our own work can be useful for many different aspects.