When I did the cage thing I put up posters around the college asking people to come so it would be watched by a wider audience but hardly anybody turned up that wasnt supossed to be there anyway so it was only watched by the people in the class. It reminds me of that thing Garry was talking about I while ago saying Art is like a zoo because everybody comes and gawps at it. It possibly would be better if I did it In a more public place so a different audiences could see it like a shop window or something or the canteen. If I asked myself who I really did it for I probably would say it was aimed a the studio audience because it was sort of a comment a out how the studio can be quite restrictive because you always feel like your being watched and evaluated and your always worring about whether what your doing is 'good' or not. If I put it in a more public space like a shop window it would be more about how the public view art. If it was in a gallery window it could be viewed as a comment on the whole art gallery experience.Wednesday, 11 March 2009
When I did the cage thing I put up posters around the college asking people to come so it would be watched by a wider audience but hardly anybody turned up that wasnt supossed to be there anyway so it was only watched by the people in the class. It reminds me of that thing Garry was talking about I while ago saying Art is like a zoo because everybody comes and gawps at it. It possibly would be better if I did it In a more public place so a different audiences could see it like a shop window or something or the canteen. If I asked myself who I really did it for I probably would say it was aimed a the studio audience because it was sort of a comment a out how the studio can be quite restrictive because you always feel like your being watched and evaluated and your always worring about whether what your doing is 'good' or not. If I put it in a more public space like a shop window it would be more about how the public view art. If it was in a gallery window it could be viewed as a comment on the whole art gallery experience.
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The zoo art fair takes place in the grounds of London Zoo. Perhaps you could propose a development of your piece using one of the zoo's empty cages for a performance that would take place during the time of the Frieze art fair.
ReplyDeleteWhen looking at art, an anthropological point of view can be very rewarding. Try Alfred Gell’s Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory, in particular the last chapter. In this he links the way tattoos are used within South Seas societies with how we read Duchamp.