Saturday, February 27, 2010

10.321 MARINA ABRAMOVIC





MARINA ABRAMOVIC. SERBIAN PERFORMANCE ARTIST. ACTIVE FOR OVER THREE DECADES. ABRAMOVIĆ'S WORK EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE, THE LIMITS OF THE BODY, AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE MIND. ABRAMOVIĆ BEGAN TO CONSIDER THE STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE PERFORMER. “ONCE YOU ENTER INTO THE PERFORMANCE STATE YOU CAN PUSH YOUR BODY TO DO THINGS YOU ABSOLUTELY COULD NEVER NORMALLY DO.” THE STATE OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS COULD BE INCORPORATED INTO A PERFORMANCE, TO TEST THE LIMITS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE. ABRAMOVIĆ/ULAY EXPLORED EXTREME STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO ARCHITECTURAL SPACE. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.320 PERRY ANDERSON

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

10.318 JENNY HOLZER



AMERICAN CONCEPTUAL ARTIST. ATTENDED THE INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAM AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. HOLZER WAS ORIGINALLY AN ABSTRACT ARTIST, FOCUSING ON PAINTING AND PRINTMAKING; AFTER MOVING TO NEW YORK CITY IN 1977, SHE BEGAN WORKING WITH TEXT AS ART. SHE WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE ARTIST'S GROUP COLAB. THE MAIN FOCUS OF HER WORK IS THE USE OF WORDS AND IDEAS IN PUBLIC SPACE. ORIGINALLY UTILIZING STREET POSTERS, LED SIGNS BECAME HER MOST VISIBLE MEDIUM, THOUGH HER DIVERSE PRACTICE INCORPORATES A WIDE ARRAY OF MEDIA INCLUDING BRONZE PLAQUES, PAINTED SIGNS, STONE BENCHES AND FOOTSTOOLS, STICKERS, T-SHIRTS, CONDOMS, PAINTINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, SOUND, VIDEO, LIGHT PROJECTION AND THE INTERNET. WIKY. VIEW HISTORY

Saturday, February 20, 2010

10.317 ROBERT MOTHERWELL

10.316 ANDREAS FEININGER



ANDREAS FEININGER. GERMAN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER, AND WRITER ON PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE, NOTED FOR HIS DYNAMIC BLACK-AND-WHITE SCENES OF MANHATTAN AND STUDIES OF THE STRUCTURE OF NATURAL OBJECTS. FEININGER GREW UP AND WAS EDUCATED AS AN ARCHITECT IN GERMANY, WHERE HIS FATHER PAINTED AND TAUGHT AT STAATLICHES BAUHAUS. IN 1936, HE GAVE UP ARCHITECTURE ITSELF, AND FOCUSED ON PHOTOGRAPHY. IN 1939, FEININGER IMMIGRATED TO THE U.S. WHERE HE ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS A FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER AND IN 1943 JOINED THE STAFF OF LIFE MAGAZINE. FEININGER WROTE COMPREHENSIVE MANUALS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY, OF WHICH THE BEST KNOWN IS THE COMPLETE PHOTOGRAPHER. IN 1966, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHERS (ASMP) AWARDED FEININGER THE ROBERT LEAVITT AWARD.WIKI. VIEW HISTORY. 

Saturday, February 13, 2010

10.312 CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS

10.311 VANESSA BEECROFT



BEECROFT'S WORK IS A FUSION OF CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND AESTHETIC CONCERNS, FOCUSING ON LARGE-SCALE PERFORMANCE ART, USUALLY INVOLVING LIVE FEMALE MODELS (OFTEN NUDE). AT HER PERFORMANCES, VIDEO RECORDINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MADE, TO BE EXHIBITED AS DOCUMENTATION OF THE PERFORMANCES, BUT ALSO AS SEPARATE WORKS OF ART. THE WORK AND HER CONCEPTUAL APPROACH IS NEITHER PERFORMANCE NOR DOCUMENTARY, BUT SOMETHING IN BETWEEN, AND CLOSER TO RENAISSANCE PAINTING. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.310 REM KOOLHAAS

Rem Koolhaas interview De Rotterdam from Paul Dijkhuijsen on Vimeo.

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Sunday, February 7, 2010

10.309 PIERRE BOURDIEU

CINDY SHERMAN



CINDI SHERMAN. AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER, BEST KNOWN FOR HER CONCEPTUAL PORTRAITS. SHE BEGAN PAINTING. "THERE WAS NOTHING MORE TO SAY [THROUGH PAINTING]," SHE LATER RECALLED. "I WAS METICULOUSLY COPYING OTHER ART AND THEN I REALIZED I COULD JUST USE A CAMERA AND PUT MY TIME INTO AN IDEA INSTEAD." SHERMAN WORKS IN SERIES, TYPICALLY PHOTOGRAPHING HERSELF IN A RANGE OF COSTUMES. FOR EXAMPLE, IN HER LANDMARK 69 PHOTOGRAPH SERIES, THE COMPLETE UNTITLED FILM STILLS, (1977–1980) SHERMAN APPEARED AS B-MOVIE, FOREIGN FILM AND FILM NOIR STYLE ACTRESSES. A SERIES, DATED 2003, FEATURES HER AS CLOWNS. SHERMAN HAS APPROPRIATED A NUMBER OF OTHER VISUAL FORMS— THE CENTERFOLD, FASHION PHOTOGRAPH, HISTORICAL PORTRAIT, AND SOFT-CORE SEX IMAGE. THESE AND OTHER SERIES, LIKE THE 1980S "FAIRY TALES AND DISASTERS" SEQUENCE. WIKI VIEW HISTORY.

JUHANI PALLASMAA


Juhani Pallasmaa on HDL Global 1968 from Sitra- Finnish Innovation Fund on Vimeo.


JUHANI PALLASMAA HAS WRITTEN NUMEROUS ARTICLES ON CULTURAL PHILOSOPHY, ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE ARTS. MANY OF HIS ARTICLES ARE FIRST FEATURED IN ARK (THE FINNISH ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW). "THE EYES OF THE SKIN - ARCHITECTURE AND THE SENSES", A BOOK THAT HAS BECOME A CLASSIC OF ARCHITECTURAL THEORY A SELECTION OF ESSAYS WRITTEN BY PALLASMAA, FROM THE EARLY YEARS TO MORE RECENT ONES, HAS BEEN TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH AND COLLATED TOGETHER IN THE BOOK "ENCOUNTERS - ARCHITECTURAL ESSAYS" (HELSINKI, 2005), EDITED BY PETER MACKEITH. WIKI VIEW HISTORI

Friday, February 5, 2010

10.306 CHANTALL MOUFFE




CHANTAL MOUFFE IS A BELGIAN POLITICAL THEORIST. SHE IS BEST KNOWN AS CO-AUTHOR OF HEGEMONY AND SOCIALIST STRATEGY WITH ERNESTO LACLAU. THEIR THOUGHTS ARE USUALLY DESCRIBED AS POST-MARXISM THEY REJECTED MARXIST ECONOMIC DETERMINISM AND THE NOTION OF CLASS STRUGGLE BEING THE SINGLE CRUCIAL ANTAGONISM IN SOCIETY. INSTEAD THEY URGED FOR RADICAL DEMOCRACY OF AGONISTIC PLURALISM WHERE ALL ANTAGONISMS COULD BE EXPRESSED. IN THEIR OPINION, ‘...THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF SOCIETY WITHOUT ANTAGONISM’; INDEED, WITHOUT THE FORCES THAT ARTICULATE A VISION OF SOCIETY, IT COULD NOT EXIST.

10.305 ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

LINA BO BARDI



LINA BO BARDI SPENT THE YEARS FOLLOWING THE WAR DOCUMENTING DESTRUCTION ACROSS ITALY, PARTICIPATING IN THE NATIONAL CONGRESS FOR RECONSTRUCTION. SHE ALSO FOUNDED A WEEKLY MAGAZINE, A CULTURA DELLA VITA, WITH BRUNO ZEVI. IN 1946 BO BARDI MOVED WITH HER HUSBAND TO BRAZIL, A COUNTRY WHICH HAD A PROFOUND EFFECT ON HER CREATIVE THINKING. SHE COMPLETED HER 
FIRST BUILT WORK, HER OWN "GLASS HOUSE". HERE, THE ITALIAN RATIONALISM SHAPED THIS FIRST WORK, BUT IMMERSED IN BRAZILIAN CULTURE HER CREATIVE THINKING BEGAN TO BECOME MORE EXPRESSIVE. WIKY. VIEW HISTORY. 

Monday, February 1, 2010

BRUNO LATOUR



BRUNO LATOUR (SOCIOLOGIST OF SCIENCE, ANTHROPOLOGIST). HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS BOOKS WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MODERN (1991; ENGLISH TRANSLATION, 1993), LABORATORY LIFE (WITH STEVE WOOLGAR, 1979) AND SCIENCE IN ACTION (1987). ALONG WITH MICHEL CALLON AND JOHN LAW, LATOUR IS ONE OF THE PRIMARY DEVELOPERS OF ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY (ANT), A CONSTRUCTIONIST APPROACH INFLUENCED BY THE ETHNOMETHODOLOGY OF HAROLD GARFINKEL, THE GENERATIVE SEMIOTICS OF GREIMAS, AND (MORE RECENTLY) THE SOCIOLOGY OF DURKHEIM'S RIVAL GABRIEL TARDE. WIKY. VIEW HISTORY.

REBECCA HORN



REBECCA HORN IS A GERMAN INSTALLATION ARTIST MOST FAMOUS FOR HER BODY MODIFICATIONS SUCH AS EINHORN (UNICORN), A BODY-SUIT WITH A VERY LARGE HORN PROJECTING VERTICALLY FROM THE HEADPIECE, AND PENCIL MASK, A MESH HARNESS FOR THE HEAD WITH MANY PENCILS PROJECTING OUT. SHE IS MAINLY A PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION ARTIST, BUT SHE ALSO WRITES POETRY. SOMETIMES HER POETRY IS INFLUENCED BY HER WORK, AND ON MANY OCCASIONS HER POETRY HAS INSPIRED HER WORK. SHE WAS TAUGHT TO DRAW BY HER ROMANIAN GOVERNESS AND BECAME OBSESSED WITH DRAWING AS EXPRESSION BECAUSE IT WAS NOT AS CONFINING OR LABELING AS ORAL LANGUAGE. I DID NOT HAVE TO DRAW IN GERMAN OR FRENCH OR ENGLISH. I COULD JUST DRAW." WIKY. VIEW HISTORY.