Lisa Jevbratt (www.jevbratt.com) is currently working on a project that is similar to the Haacke one and tracks the funding of the Swedish National Public Art Council (they commissione dthe piece).
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From: Curating digital art - www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/ on behalf of Rosanne Altstatt
Sent: Mon 3/27/2006 10:24 AM
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Subject: Re: a comment on artistic and curatorial practice
Andreas,
Now's the time to admit that I've always had something against art that
dead-ends with an artworld audience. This includes new media art as well as
all other areas of art. On the other hand, I should never say never: There
is a history of art involving institutional critique - such as that which
has been produced by artists like Hans Haacke or Andrea Fraser, which opens
up a wider discussion for all parts of the audience.
"Haacke's 1971 one-artist show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which
was to include this work that also made an issue of the business and
personal connections of the museum's trustees, was cancelled by the museum's
director six weeks prior to the opening. An exhibition at the
Wallraf-Richartz museum was also cancelled due to the inclusion by Haacke of
the work "Manet '74" that connected the funding of the museum to the
cultural politics of the cold war." (wikipedia)
Haacke follows the money behind the artworks, showing the audience what they
are a party to through the price of admission.
Andrea Fraser's museum tours and performances on art services/museum as
tourist attraction, analyze the role of the cultural center in contemporary
society (her work amounts to more than that, but I'll just cite that part
for now), peeling back layers of a romantic notion of the arts and showing
how art and culture are instrumentalized for political, financial and
popular gain.
These two artists investigate the presentation of art and its surrounding
web of politics in a manner that opens the eyes of an audience to something
that affects the viewing/patronage situtation they take part in. Their works
raise questions that are relevant for greater audience. It amounts to more
than art about internal artworld strife.
Would anyone like to add an example of a work of new media art that works
along these lines?
Thanks for your comments, everyone.
Rosanne
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Andreas Broeckmann <[log in to unmask]>
> An: Rosanne Altstatt <[log in to unmask]>
> Kopie: [log in to unmask]
> Betreff: Re: a comment on artistic and curatorial practice
> Datum: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:07:32 +0200
>
> dear rosanne,
>
> i completely agree with you that this is a clumsy project and bad
> art. i did not post it to this list to raise its status, but to
> provoke a sort of reflection which is mostly absent from this list.
> if 'crumb' is about curating, why does it take such a bad art project
> to provoke a statement like yours, esp. towards the end of the
> message? and who is going to answer your questions?
>
> regards,
> -a
>
>
>
> > > The relation between artist and curator (artists often curate
> >> themselves/each other, too) is complex, to say the least. This work
> >> manages
> >> to simplify it in headline-grabbing terms - no depth. Yes, many
> artists
> >> feel
> >> that they or their colleagues must lick ass to get anywhere. This is
> not a
> >> newsflash. I do find it, however, extremely narrow in its view. The
> >> curator-artist relationship is interdependent.
> >>
> >> This work was probably a sincere expression of the aritsts' feelings,
> but
> >> that still doesn't make it a good work of art. It takes more than 'my
> >> feelings' and bravado to make a good work of art.
> >>
> >> Another comment:
> >> Generally speaking, does a public audience care about all of our
> >> navel-gazing? Does it care about the artist-curator relationship?
> >> Publishing
> >> books or writing on lists, which are specifially meant for an artworld
> >> audience, is exchanging information within an interested audience of
> art
> >> professionals.
> >> Does anyone really think an audience, which hopefully includes
> non-artbiz
> >> people, attends galleries and art events to hear about the artworld? I
> >> seriously doubt it. Most visitors want to take in something that will
> > > enrich
> >> their lives. Self-reflections from and for the artworld generally
> don't do
> >> it for anyone but ourselves.
> >>
> > > Rosanne
>
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