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1 PART 2 MEDIA AND PROCESSES Introduction-Alternative Media Chapter 2.7 Alternative Media and Processes Alternative media and processes describes artworks made outside traditional methods Performance art-performed in front of a live audience Includes all kinds of actions, not just singing, dancing, etc. Conceptual art Ideas behind an artwork are the most important, often requiring the viewer to complete the piece Installation Choreographs an entire space, not just a single artwork Houston s Beer Can House Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields

paintings: splashed, dripped, and flung paint which drew attention to the artist s actions Shift to the actions rather than the product

2 PART 2 MEDIA AND PROCESSES Alternative Media Chapter 2.7 Alternative Media and Processes Emphasis on actions, contexts, content and environments Influence of Jackson Pollock (1950s) Action paintings: splashed, dripped, and flung paint which drew attention to the artist s actions Shift to the actions rather than the product of artist s work Artworks can exist for a short duration Documentation becomes important Through photographs and videos Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields

3 PART 2 MEDIA AND PROCESSES Chapter 2.7 Alternative Media and Processes Performance Art Name for a new form of creative activity of 1960s 1970s Influenced by John Cage (composer) Chance operations using experimental techniques Cage was one of the first to conduct Happenings Impromptu art actions Wanted his artwork to draw people s attention to the life around them Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields

4 Joseph Beuys, Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me, May Living sculpture at the René Block Gallery, New York

5 PART 2 MEDIA AND PROCESSES Joseph Beuys, Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me Chapter 2.7 Alternative Media and Processes Incorporates some of his life experiences German heritage and experience as a Hitler Youth German Air Force in World War II Personal mythology and political symbolism recalled in this performance How can we relate without some personal pre-education on our part? Again-does the work stand on its own? Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields

Nam June Paik. TV Bra for Living Sculpture. 1969. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

.. the most intimate belonging of human being, we will demonstrate the human use of technology,

6 Nam June Paik. TV Bra for Living Sculpture By using TV as bra... the most intimate belonging of human being, we will demonstrate the human use of technology, and also stimulate viewers, NOT for something mean, by stimulate their phantasy [sic] to look for the new, imaginative, and humanistic ways of using our technology. --Nam June Paik, 1969

7 Trisha Brown. Walking on the Wall. March 30,

Robert Rauschenberg. Open Score. October 14 and 22, 1966.

8 Robert Rauschenberg. Open Score. October 14 and 22, In Open Score, the tennis racquet suggested both the idea of the ready-made (at other times tennis was played at the Armory) and that of a dance improvised in accordance with specific rules. The a musical chord sounded and the lighting dimmed each time a racquet hit a ball, conferred on the player s actions a function bound up with a complex technological system. During the second part of the performance, which took place in total darkness, a crowd of 500 gathered on stage in the complete darkness, which was filmed with infrared cameras, appeared to mirror the viewers assembled on the bleachers that served as seats. The crowd performed a set of rehearsed actions on stage which could only be viewed on the screens. Their voices were prerecorded of them saying their names which was played back during this part of the performance.

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10 PART 2 MEDIA AND PROCESSES When does performance art become theater or dance? Chapter 2.7 Alternative Media and Processes PowerPoints developed by CreativeMyndz Multimedia Studios

everyday objects popular imagery, even just ideas Duchamp Readymades Bottle Rack 1914 & In Advance of the Broken Arm 1915

11 PART 2 MEDIA AND PROCESSES Conceptual Art Promotes ideas as artworks in and of themselves Downplays artworks as products Influenced by the Dada movement, which began in 1916 Marcel Duchamp s readymades Opened up possibilities for artmaking Including everyday objects popular imagery, even just ideas Duchamp Readymades Bottle Rack 1914 & In Advance of the Broken Arm 1915 Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields Chapter 2.7 Alternative Media and Processes

12 Marcel Duchamp 1917 Fountain Dada Art Founder Readymade

13 PART 2 MEDIA AND PROCESSES Chapter 2.7 Alternative Media and Processes Installation and Environments Installation and environments Choreographing an entire space Not just a single painting, sculpture, drawing, photograph, etc. Spaces for viewers to walk through Can include comments on practices of display and institutions Multi-media options used Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields

Do Ho Suh- 2012 Home within Home, Leading artist Korea, nomadic lifestyle

14 Do Ho Suh Home within Home, Leading artist Korea, nomadic lifestyle themes with 5 installations in two galleries The rooms were lowered and raised

16 Lisa Lou Kitchen 1996 Beaded kitchen installation South African artist Suffers from acute tendonitis Due to individually gluing each Bead separately

17 Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, Wood, board construction, furniture, found printed ephemera, and household objects, dimensions variable

18 PART 2 MEDIA AND PROCESSES Chapter 2.9 Sculpture Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, The Man Who Flew Into Space from His Apartment Kabakov has re-created a room which can be viewed but not entered in a small apartment in the former Soviet Union The room s inhabitant is no longer there because he has launched himself through the ceiling Kabakov s work juxtaposes the private life of the comrade with the presence of the Communist state Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields

19 Yasuaki Onishi Reverse of Volume, 2012 Shows his interest in the invisible, like time, or air, or gravity constructing a suspension of weight/space/belief that can be observed from all angles and never to the same effect. Inverted landscape made of plastic sheets, glue, nylon thread INSTALLATION LAB

20 Jonas Becker, The Pile, 2015 Examines the production of desire. The installation of film, sculpture, and social reaction (conceptual art) explores the themes of want and fulfillment: a video depicts a woman sitting in a blue chair, hand-stitching red tokens, while in the gallery, a pile of these same objects spills across the floor and the same chair sits empty in the corner. The objects are symbols of real desires. Becker collected over a thousand responses to the question, What one thing would make your life better? The handmade red felt objects represent a want keep my family safe, love, a car yet expose the conventional and commodity-driven nature of desire.

21 PART 2 MEDIA AND PROCESSES Chapter 2.7 Alternative Media and Processes Conclusion Alternative media and processes often emphasize the lived moment Actions as they are happening Focus on the processes involved Making, thinking, experiencing Expand our consciousness to see art in the world around us Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields

Introduction Time and Motion

PART 1 Introduction Time and Motion Time and motion are closely linked elements in art Most of the traditional art media are inherently motionless and timeless Artists who work in static media have found