#participatory art

[diana-andraste]

Cut Piece, Yoko Ono, 1964

"The audience took turns walking up to her on stage and joining her performance, cutting off pieces of her clothing with scissors. Her expression was kept poised and silenced while her body remained motionless. For the final stage of the performance, her body was fully exposed. The audience walked down the steps clutching the remnants of her clothes and they were allowed to keep these pieces with them." Wikipedia

"Ono reaffirms that the sensations of discomfort and intimacy are mutual, shared by both artist and participant.

 By means of live audience interaction, the participatory nature of Cut Piece...reveal[s] the degree to which Ono engages in this passive objectification of both the female body and her physical self, highlighting the loss of agency that accompanies touch and female nudity in the public eye."

Eva Gallagher, Boston University

9 minute performance video at the link

#art #performance art #yoko ono #1960s #cut piece #back and white #animation #feminism #passive objectification #feminist art movement #participatory art #performer and audience #photomontage #fluxus #wikipedia #eva gallagher #boston university #photography

[pagansphinx]

Art Movements

Art movements, "schools", artist groups, and societies do not function in the same way as they once did. There were art movements in the earlier years of contemporary art but those too have gone the way of art history. In the late 20th to 21st centuries there are no art movements to speak of, due to globalization and the sheer volume and diversity of the art world. Even Conceptual Art, which endures to this day, is more of a term or category than a movement.

Some will argue that there are lots of contemporary art movements – Minimilism, Monochrome, and Participatory Art, to name a few. True, though I see these as a club with so many members that connection and cohesiveness are impossible to achieve. That isn't to say that's bad. Again, it's due to how large, diverse, and world-wide these movements are. Everyone doesn't know everyone as they did in Impressionism or Surrealism.

An example of Monochrome Art

Robert Ryman (American, 1930-2019 • Ledger • 1982 • Enamelac paint on fibreglass, aluminium and wood • Tate Modern

l'm nostalgic about the art created before the 1950s. I like some of work done in the earlier movements of contemporary art — pop art is fun. The Fluxus Movement produced some cool stuff –à la Yoko Ono. Word Art is not my favorite, though it is unlike me to dismiss it as bad art because I've not seen much of it.

An example of Word Art

Barbara Kruger (American, b. 1945) • Untitled (Your body is a battleground) • 1989 • photographic silkscreen on vinyl

An example of Participatory Art

I "participated" in this artwork – Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.). It was colorful, interesting, and fun but also very sad. I believe it was at The Whitney in New York. It's a pile of candy in confetti colored wrappings (In other installations the colors vary). It can exist in more than one location at the same time, starting with a specific weight 175 pounds (79 kg). Participants are encouraged to take one candy and the quantity diminishes. The artist, Félix González-Torres was a gay man whose partner, Ross Laycock, died of complications of HIV/AIDS in 1991. One art critic's interpretation of the art work was "the diminishment recalls how he (the artist's partner) wasted away before dying." Félix González-Torres himself died in 1996 of HIV.

Félix González-Torres (Cuban-American, 1957-1996) • Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) • 1991

What is your favorite contemporary art movement or individual artist? Please comment. You don't have to be an expert, you just have to know what you like. I'd love to hear from you!

#art #art history #art movements #contemporary art #21st century art #word art #conceptual art #monochrome art #felix-gonzales torres #barbara kruger #robert ryman #participatory art #contemporary art movements #20th century art movements #hiv/aids #queer artist #woman artist #pagan sphinx art blog #writings about art

[disease]

MAURIZIO CATTELAN / “AMERICA” / 2016 EXHIBITED @ THE GUGGENHEIM, 2016–17 [18k solid gold (103 kg / 227 lb)]

In September 2019, America was installed at Blenheim Palace in the United Kingdom, where it was available for use as part of an exhibition of Cattelan's works. It was placed in a water closet formerly used by Winston Churchill. On 14 September, the sculpture was stolen.

#maurizio cattelan #sculpture #installation #conceptual #contemporary art #participatory art #satirical #guggenheim #gold #italian #art #u

[artistsonthelam]

On this day in 2012 was the closing reception for I CAN DO THAT, the watershed interactive art show I created and independently curated! Here's a photo I've never shared before: A candid my mom took of me while I was getting interviewed by Gozamos 🎤 // I CAN DO THAT (c) Jenny Lam 2012

#chicago #contemporary art #candid #me #throwback #on this day #curators on tumblr #art curator #art #artwork #photography #artists on tumblr #interactive art #participatory art #art show #art exhibition #art gallery #modern art #aapi #woc

[yz]

EJ Hill - Brake Run Helix. A working rollercoaster as art installation. Runs hourly with advance reservations.

#yzshot #travel #art #modern art #contemporary art #art contemporain #ej hill #sculpture #statue #participatory art #pink #rollercoaster #installation #mass moca #north adams #massachusetts

[animblog]

Albatross Soup -- 2019 Winnie Cheung 06:49

#Albatross Soup #Winnie Cheung #2019 #sundance #2d #participatory art #mystery #interview #suicide #death #food #bird #albatross #island #collaboration #narrator #narration #guilt #riddle #Youtube

[kserpa23]

The Secret of The Rock

96” x 45” x 5” (Stage)

2’ x 2’ x 2’ (Rock)

2x4s, plywood, carpet, wood veneer, chicken wire, garbage bags, screws, staples, spray paint, sledgehammer, audience members 

This interactive/participatory artwork is created to show the theatrical stage as a pedestal for performance. In order to do this, the performance is based around a story of theatrical nature, “The Sword in The Stone.” Here the artist is presenting the audience with a challenge seemingly based around strength or complete randomness that is solved either by happenstance or intuitive thinking that then has audio that pushes the “winning” audience member to act with an object in a way that is destructive to the artist’s work, something that is traditionally prohibited in art exhibitions. 

For me, the performance went as planned even though I was prepared for alternative outcomes. I had to explicitly invite the audience into the performative and participatory aspect of the work to get it started and I think the destruction of the rock was a concrete and satisfying conclusion to the theatrical aspect of it as well. As I wanted to have an action beyond the strength challenge of sorts, having my voice chaotically arise from behind the stage telling someone to destroy my art was a way I thought I could cohesively and safely do that without any more explicit direction from the actual me. The rock’s rough and simple construction lends itself to its fate while the stage’s construction allows for it to be the theatrical pedestal it needs to be. The documentation focuses on the rock instead of the people so that a person’s full body comes into frame when they are acting upon the artwork with a close-to-body object (16” sledgehammer) instead of just participating in the exercise to try to free the object. 

#pedestal #participatory art #Youtube

[subrab]

Christian Marclay, Graffiti Composition, 1996–2002. Portfolio of 150 digital prints. Printed by Muse X Editions, Los Angeles, published by Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery. © Christian Marclay

(via Christian Marclay: Festival | Whitney Museum of American Art)

#Christian Marclay #graffiti #music #participatory art #contemporary art

[lfnsa-project]

Hand-copied letter on Awagami Kitakata paper, 2021

#submission #participatory art #lfnsa #letters to friends I never spoke to again #submit #anonymous

[yes-k]

Moon on the Sea at the 28th Slavonian Biennial "New Paradigms of Happiness, from Osijek Dada to Contemporary Chaos" curated by Valentina Radoš

Photo: Tomislav Herega

#art #installation #participatory installation #yellow #kaloyan ivanov #osijek #croatia #28th slavonian biennial

[deanleivers]

‘Looking In, Looking Out’

‘Looking In, Looking Out’ is a participatory project of artist residencies teaching analogue photography & poetry on 9 school sites, using environmental-stimuli & based in a transparent dome. An innovation for students & residents with low cultural capital, interweaving science, art history, social science, literature & art. It’s a development of the first project (Dependent Origination Funded by Arts Council England) this project is an innovation that bridges formal wellbeing tools (mindfulness) with creative practice, led by two professional Artists; Akshay Sharma (AKA Mr Shay) and myself.

The project used different creative practices to enable students to explore and experience the strength within each one of them. It introduces and spotlights the importance of Recognising (what’s inside and outside ourselves), Recording (mentally or physically taking note) and Responding (taking action).

The workshops will be following the themes of:

- ‘Environmental observation’ (paying close attention to the visual landscape). This then leads into a photographic workshop with Dean using the analogue historical cyanotype process to create images using handmade treated paper, natural found objects and sunlight.

- ‘Environmental listening’ (paying close attention to the soundscape). This leads into a creative writing session with Shay, using sounds from the vicinity as a stimulus for writing poetry, with potential to practice performing it too.

Each participant will create one cyanotype image each and, either an individual poem or a collaborative group poem (dependent on age/ability of year group).

The countdown is now on as we land in our first partner school in just under two weeks time. More updates will follow as we work with the schools but for a more visual overview of the project see the video below.

#photography #community #community project #Arts Council England #Arts Council #Participatory Arts #spoken word #poetry #workshops

[chanarie69]

THE KIOSK OF DEMOCRACY PRESENTS "BORAMETZ" Participatory action in the context of #poemokratia by Academia Romantica. May 7, 2023, Sozopolis, Athens By PANOS SKLAVENITIS - GREECE www.facebook.com/kioskofdemocracy/

PANOS SKLAVENITIS ©

#art #participatory action

[sheltiechicago]

Artist JR’s Inside Out project comes to Milan

Among the good news to come in this early 2023 is the arrival in Milan of the Inside Out project, born in 2014 from the talent of JR, one of the world’s leading artists. The participatory art project Inside Out, as announced by the City of Milan, returns to the Lombard capital, five years after the French artist photographed the faces of the then workers at the BASE construction site.

#jr #artist #milan #italy #inside out project #photographs #art #participatory art project #base construction site #lombardy #portraits

[dmcreativestudio]

Pankaj Tiwari - TENT: a school for performative practices

How to change these institutions? Within the structure and institution, Can we really support these ways of thinking and thoughts? Can we create an institution, which is non-white? What will it look like? What will be its practices? All these questions started coming to me, from others as well as from myself.

We are going to build an institution having diversity at the centre of it. An institution that does not exploit people’s identity to capitalise on it. Rather, it would like to create a structure where diverse identities can feel a sense of belonging, a space of mutual learning, a sense of ownership, a sense of home, a better support structure, space where the stakeholders have more unproductive time and less bureaucracy. [...] This is how we imagine, we can not be sure whether this is best or this is worst, the only thing we claim, that we want to try this and create this as a practice-based research space and a space of learning. TENT itself wants to be a learning space.

I invite you all to join me, building this base through ideas of schooling, reshaping institutions, thoughts, and physical labour to dig the land and make the base.

#participation #public art #audience engagement #participatory project

[artistsonthelam]

Today’s postcard (top image). It’s a follow-up from the sender of Dreams of a City postcard #4862 (bottom image), which was left 22 April 2018 inside New Wave Coffee. The original mapped dream from 5 years ago: x // Dreams of a City © Jenny Lam 2008-2023

#postcards #snail mail #writing #texas #arkansas #chicago #mail art #interactive art #participatory art #public art #mail #hope #dream #dreams #postcard #data #mapping #art #artist #criminal justice

[mundaniel]

thinking about that post which talks about how people don't understand tumblr culture because the way that people on tumblr engage with media is active and participatory as opposed to merely consumptive

like...the first reaction of tumblr phannies to the dapc video is yes "omg they touched" but also art and theories and film analysis and edits and essays and fanfiction and maybe a whole-ass magazine

i love this website i love this website and i love all of you!! we play together we have fun together we make and take apart and make again together

#feeling a lot of things right now #yes its 2pm #i don't care #dan and phil #dapc #dnp