Another session with Garry

My notes:

• Look at different sites
• Exhibition spaces - There all different?
• The Pavillion, 7 Saw Mill Yard, Round Foundary - It's next to the crosskeys pub

Quotes from press releases

      - People write things to get people to come along to their show/exhibition

• The Alistair Robinson curated show "Rank" - Leeds City Art Gallery - Dedactic (too concerned about telling a story) - Some things are Art and some things aren't and the things that aren't are potentially more interesting.
• Olsen - At Hyde Park Picture House
• PSL having a closing party on 28th Feb 2-5pm
• A collaborative project between PLS (Leeds) and the Whitechapel Art Gallery (London)

Allan Kaprow images

Research - Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927 – April 5, 2006) was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings - some 200 of them - evolved over the years. Eventually Kaprow shifted his practice into what he called "Activities", intimately-scaled pieces for one or several players and devoted to the examination of everyday behaviors and habits in a way nearly indistinguishable from ordinary life. Fluxus, Performance art, and Installation art was, in turn, influenced by his work.

The "Happenings" first started as tightly scripted events, in which the audience and performers followed queues to experience the art. One such work, titled "Eighteen Happenings in Six Parts", involved an audience moving together to experience elements such as a band playing toy instruments, a woman squeezing an orange, and painters painting. His work evolved, and became less scripted and incorporated more everyday activities. Kaprow's most famous happenings began around 1961 to 1962, when he would take students or friends out to a specific site to perform a small action. In his own words, "And the work itself, the action, the kind of participation, was as remote from anything artistic as the site was." He rarely recorded his Happenings, and they usually happened once Kaprow's work attempts to integrate art and life. Through Happenings, the separation between life and art, and artist and audience becomes blurred. He has published extensively and was Professor Emeritus in the Visual ArtsDepartment of the University of California, San Diego. Kaprow is also known for the idea of "un-art", found in his essays "Art Which Can't Be Art" and "The Education of the Un-Artist."

Audiences

• Relationship between art and audiences

Write about the art I've seen.. take photographs etc... Exhibitions.

• Can there be a wrong audience?
• I need visual images and what i'm going to say.
• How am I going to get an audience?

Maybe ask galleries to look at there mailing lists?

• 'Ixia' website - public art
• theartistsweb.co.uk
• acisweb.org - LOOK AT THIS !

Another Briefing

• What experience is the audience having whilst viewing my art?
• Where is my work going to go?
• Who do I want to see it? - This depends on where my work is...
• What does a gallery space mean?

Reforming the work.

Deeper theory - How we make communication.

Next week - self reflection - again, how am I going to display my work?

Doing this blog is making me think about another audience - getting networked. well I'm already on facebook and myspace...

Briefing

At the end of the module we will have a blog (publicly engage with it)

• Photographs of my work
• Gallery spaces
• How am I going to present my work?
• What type of space? (photograph how i'm going to present my work)

Setting up

Well this is the first time i've ever set up a blog and it seems pretty simple i guess.. I'm just not sure what i'm actually supposed to be writing about because well, this is supposed to be for one of my modules: CONTEMPRARY PRACTISE 2.