Art 381 Installation Performance Documentation

Tiravanija

“Artistic activity is a game whose forms patterns and functions develop and evolve according to the periods and social context.”
“The exchange that takes place between people, in the gallery or museum space, turns out to be as likely to act as the raw matter for an artistic work.” 2, February 2009, Tate Modern, Nicolas Bourriaud

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“Rauschenberg’s requirement that the viewer participate in the creation of the work is a radical departure from the traditional relation between artist and audience… In Soundings, he insists that the viewer become his collaborator; without him the work does not exist.”
22 October 1968, MoMA Press release

Installation Documentation Fall 2009

A Junior/Senior Studio Seminar course exploring installation and exhibition of temporal works art by contemporary artist/architects using documentation as an integral part of their practice.

Studio work will be student driven and manifest in an exhibition in November. The documentation of the work, whether part of the piece or a record of the work, will be designed and printed in multiples by the semester’s end.

Essays for the course will expose you to the historical and political underpinnings of Installation and Documentation, these forms and its contemporary manifestation worldwide. These include From the Margins to the Center, The Spaces of Installation Art, Julie H. Reiss ’84, Relational Aesthetics, Nicolas Bourriaud and Empire of Signs, Roland Barthes as well as several articles.

The modern and contemporary Artist Book collection at Reed will be used for examples of the creative catalog and documentation of temporal installation based work. The new web archive of Reed’s Artist Books will enable students to review this work. The catalog Eye on Europe will provide critical essays on the book as an alternative space.

Technical training in wall/space construction, theatrical lighting and book/ document production including book layout, binding and letterpress will be covered. Conscious use of materials, including recycled lumber and metals, green building and printing practices will be emphasized in all studio production.

This course is open to all students who have taken sculpture, painting, photo and digital media. One sculpture course taken prior to this course is required.A priority will be given to studio majors.

Projects

Books/Readings

Historically Framing Installation, Performance, Participation 1960-present

From the Margins to the Center, The Spaces of Installation Art,
Chapters 1& 3 Julie H. Reiss
Relational Aesthetics, Nicolas Bourriaud
Postproduction, Nicolas Bourriaud
Empire of Signs, pp 3-27 Roland Barthes
(Reference) Poetry,Language,Thought, Building,Dwelling,Thinking, Heiddegger

Process = Product

Psycho Buildings, Intro Ralph Rugoff
Thinking Through Craft, Glenn Adamson
The Materialization of the Art Object
Crafts Magazine, Sloppy Craft, Glenn Adamson
Out of the Ordinary, Ann Wilson in Conversation with Laurie Britton Newell, Chicago, November 2006

Documenting Process, How We Show Art and Who Receives Art

Allan Kaprow Happenings in 6 Parts, Eva Meyer-Herman
Archive Fever,Okwui Enwezor
The West and The Rest, Staurt Hall
(Reference) The Art of Participation 1950 to Now, Fluxus Frieling/Groys

Artist Book History/ Construction

Artist/Author Contemporary Artists’ Books, Books by Artist and Books as Art,
Cornelia Lauf and Clive Phillpot
No Longer Innocent, The Sculptural Bookwork, Betty Bright
Eye On Europe, Language, Wye & Weitman
(Reference) Books Boxes and Portfolios Franz Zeier

Visiting Artist Lectures

Anne Wilson
Lecture : Oct 8, 7pm. Vollum
Class Meeting: Oct 9 10am.
Round Table: Oct 10 12pm. Museum of Contemporary Craft

Reference/Websites

Art/Arch

Art/Craft

Museum/Collections

Calendar

September

2. Intro to course, slides & discussion.
4. Visit book collection. Studio Time –Training and discussion of tools materials:
Woodshop skills/welding sewing.
Reading Assignment:
From the Margins to the Center, The Spaces of Installation Art,
Chapters 1& 3 Julie H. Reiss
Project Assignment: Sketches for work.
Friday 1-3pm-Training- Woodshop

9. Discuss Margins to the Center.
Work on studio skills. Training/Discussion of tools materials.
Wood shop skills/welding sewing.
11. Studio Time: Individual meeting- Present work/ideas.
Reading Assignment: Relational Aesthetics, Nicolas Bourriaud.
Postproduction, Nicolas Bourriaud.
Project Assignment: Sketches for work.
Friday 1-3pm Training-Welding.

16. Discuss Relational Aesthetics.
Studio Time- Individual meeting-Present work/ideas.
18. Studio Time Individual meeting-Present work/ideas.
Reading Assignment: Psycho Buildings, Intro Ralph Rugoff.
Project Assignment: Finish Models/Proposals.

23. Discuss/look at Psycho Buildings Studio Time.
25. Studio Time (Gerri Away)
Reading Assignment: Thinking Through Craft, Glenn Adamson
The Materialization of the Art Object.
Project Assignment: Begin fabrication.

30. SHOW Models/Proposals
Discuss The Materialization of the Art Object. Begin fabrication.

October

2. Studio Time/ begin fabrication.
Reading Assignment: Crafts Magazine, Sloppy Craft, and Glenn Adamson.
Out of the Ordinary, Anne Wilson in Conversation with Laurie Britton Newell, Chicago.
Project Assignment: Begin fabrication.

7. Brief look at a film by Anne Wilson. Studio Time.
8. Anne Wilson Lecture 7pm Vollum Lecture Hall.
9. Meet work with Anne Wilson. Discuss Anne’s work/ideas.
Reading Assignment: Empire of Signs, pp 3-27 Roland Barthes.
Project Assignment: Begin fabrication.
10. Round table, Museum of Contemporary Craft 12pm

14. Discuss Empire of Signs. and meeting Anne. Studio time.
16. Studio Time. VISIT: Design for the Other 90%
Reading Assignment: The Art of Participation 1950 to Now, Fluxus Frieling/Groys.
Allan Kaprow Happenings in 6 Parts, Eva Meyer-Herman.

Break

28. Install Exhibition.
30. Discuss work.
Reading Assignment: No Longer Innocent, The Sculptural Bookwork, Betty Bright.
Artist/Author Contemporary Artists’ Books, Books by Artist and Books as Art,
Cornelia Lauf and Clive Phillpot.
Project Assignment: Look over construction methods. Reference: Books Boxes and Portfolios Franz Zeier

November

4. Discuss History/context of books, Look at artist books/documents
6. Studio Time. Go over type /layout.
Reading Assignment: Archive Fever,Okwui Enwezor
The West and The Rest, Staurt Hall
Project Assignment: Type/layout

11. Discuss Archive Fevor, The West . Studio Time, Individual meetings
13. Studio Time, Individual meetings/Binding work shop
Reading Assignment: Eye On Europe, Language, and Wye & Weitman
Project Assignment: Model of book piece

18. Look at book collection and discuss Eye On Europe
20. Class In Process Crit /Studio Time
25. Studio Time