Presentation #1: more links and notes

Dan Graham suburban house
http://thegalleriesatmoore.org/publications/grahamdg.shtml

Dan Graham writing

Playtime by Jacques Tati

Christoph Buechel at Maccarone
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/rossi/rossi12-20-01.asp

Michel Gondry Be Kind Rewind at Deitch Projects
http://www.deitch.com/projects/sub.php?projId=231&orient=v

For the exhibition, Michel Gondry will be recreating the video store in the gallery, complete with a back lot containing a variety of movie sets where visitors can make their own renditions of films. All videos created during the exhibition can be viewed in the gallery. About the project, Gondry states, “I don’t intend nor have the pretension to teach how to make films. Quite the contrary. I intend to prove that people can enjoy their time without being part of the commercial system and serving it. Ultimately, I am hoping to create a network of creativity and communication that is guaranteed to be free and independent from any commercial institution.”

http://www.merzbau.org/Schwitters.html

Ed Kienholz Whitney Retrospective
http://www.whitney.org/www/collection/feat_kienholz.jsp

http://www.beatmuseum.org/kienholz/edkienholz.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n10_v84/ai_18749036

Presentation #1: links and notes

Todd Haynes
Karen Carpenter Story in Barbie dolls
“Superstar”

Repulsion by Roman Polanski

William Klein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Are_You%2C_Polly_Magoo%3F

Essex Street Market
http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2007/nelson/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Family

Gregor Schneider Haus Ur
Gregor Schneider began working on Haus Ur in 1985 at the age of sixteen. The rooms on view here are part of his ever-changing construction and reproduction of the interior of his house in Rheydt, Germany. This work is built within his house and is contained—by a slight scaling down—within the rooms that the work exactly replicates. For this exhibition, a suite of rooms has been carefully cut out and transported to the museum where the artist has reassembled them. Presented as a sculptural environment, Schneider’s work reveals evidence of his various layers of construction, the elaborate process of their making, and the intense materiality involved in re-creating an entire home. Haus ur is a quotation and extension of the original that reveals how an apparently normal and benign space can trap and disorient through illusion and mystery.

http://www.postmedia.net/01/schneider.htm
http://www.cmoa.org/international/html/art/schneider.htm

Presentation #1

Hi all,

Attached is the introduction to a book I’ve been reading, Our House: The Representation of Domestic Space in Contemporary Culture.
There are a few essays that are interesting, but this is a good overview. I can post some more of them if anyone would like.

intro_cultdomesticspace.pd

and another inspiration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu7aiDgOiSw

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PROPOSAL #1

life-size dollhouse
Construction of a life-sized, three-walled domestic space that could be walked into and through. Fully furnished and functional in terms of plumbing and electricity – interior and exterior construction complete. Viewers would be invited to enter and explore the “house” or simply view it as a whole from the outside.

interests and inspirations:
“…all cultural space – indoors and outdoors, built and ‘natural’ – is a function to a greater or lesser degree of the human response to its own evolving condition… the space enables the response, which in turn creates the space. Causer and caused, first and second, change places in a perpetually reversing metalepsis.”

• construction of a place
• construction of characters via their place
• surrealism
• performance spaces
• public vs. private
• identity
• ownership

PROPOSAL #2

performance piece
Create and choreograph a performance piece originating from the point of view of the setting. Instead of the choreographic concepts dictating the accompanying visual elements such as set and costume to evoke or explain place, the setting/place would determine the choreography. I am not referring to site-specific performance, this would take place in a theater or gallery. For example, if the setting was a house, then the performance could deal with issues such as protection vs. intrusion, privacy, refuge, etc… Physical representation of the setting would be kept to a minimum.

interests and inspirations:

• performance
• movement as another visual language
• time
• audience’s role or perspective – they would function as an extension of the setting
• Piña Bausch
• Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods

LINKS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalepsis
http://www.damagedgoods.be/
http://www.impulstanz.com/gallery/videos/performances/en&page=1&sort=mod_sort