10.10.2019 | Pavlos Kontouriotis
Prototype
- combination of visual and text (written or spoken)
- written text + photos + video
- give a sense of what the research could be like
- find artistic means to deliver the written application
- start researching, reflect on it and deliver it
- think of it as a kickstarter for a project, as if it would be sent to a venue for getting a residency
- what will the process of research look like? (not how I imagine the outcome of the research to be!!)
- what medium? Choose the most appropriate medium first. Then choose the operations
- The prototype can be one of the methods of research
Operations: research delivery
Objet Trouvé // Readymade
- artist gives the audience time and a space to contemplate an object
- Found objects derive their identity as art from the designation placed upon them by the artist
- Duchamp
- Tracy Emin (1999) “My Bed” (she had depression and took her room to the museum)
- Jerôme Bell (pop music) “The show must go on” – “Veronique Doisneau” – quotes, recontextualizing work made by others
- Piero Manzoni (1961) “Artist’s Shit”
- Ulay (1976) – ” There is a criminal contact in art” – he steels the painting from the gallery in Berlin
Transposition:
- from one genre to another
- culture, geography, temporality, history
Commentary (on the politics of the source thext or the mise-en-scene):
- offering revised point of view
- adding hypothetical motivation
- voicing silenced/marginalized
Analog:
- proximation
- updating
e.g. – Gus Van Sant remade Psycho tryib to use the same gaze Hitchcock used in the original
Homage:
- Tarantino always refers to frames of other films
- Joseph Beuys (1974) – I like America and America likes me / Oleg Kulik (1997) – I bite America and America bites me (he embodies a dog in an excessive way)
Post-production:
- Marc Bambila (2006) Sync – boredom and pornography
- Dolly Parton’s Jolene sounds as if it is sung by a man only by being slowed down
Culture Jam: modifying something like a coca-cola logo and tranforming it
Synesthesia: try to express one sensation through other means / e.g. Maria Sideri (2014) – Valentine (the sound affects the paint, other materiality) / Rita Marcalo Caramel (2012)
Sensation: e.g. Lost Highway D. Lynch – he pretends that there is a linear narrative, but there is not. He’s interested in creating sensation
Color psychology: see instagram color palette cinema
Karen Finley – Enter Entrepeneur (nothing happened)
Emapthy: e.g. Kira O’Reilly (2003) Untitled Action for Bomb Shelter (one to one performance. it could not be documented.)
Nick Ut (1972) – it’s a composed photo (he chose to take a photo that would ask for empathy in Vietnam)
Relational aesthetics – it relies on the relation that happens in the moment
Participatory art – Yayoi Kusama Obliteration Room (2015) – white room where people can put the colored dot stickers so that people could see the world a bit like her
Labyrith (2010) Tommy Noonan (non guided tour through the city of Hamburg)
Immersive theatre – simulations, games where there is decision-making by the audience
Symantec “Cyber Readiness Challenge -Protect and Prevail”
Community art
dislocation // relocation, decontextualization // recontextualization –
- Branco Miloskovic – Appointed (2015)
- Anna Thearesa’s Fase in contexts other than a stage
- Janis Cournelis (1969) Untitled (12 horses) – horses in the art gallery
- Boris Charmatz (2014) Musee de la Danse at Tate Modern
- Tilda Swinton (1995) – Maybe – she sleeps in the gallery
- Rita Natalio (2014) – Museo Encantador – she uses found objects, garbage, and presented them as ethnographic material, creating a “fake” culture of the natives
Call for imagination
- Mette Edvartsen
- While we are holding it together – Ivana Muller
Opposition
- Golden Hours (as you like it) Anna Theresa (music by Brian Eno – opposition between action and music)
- Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick
Accelerating / Discelerating (check the video essay)
- e.g. Martin Scorcese’s films, Godard, Tarantino
- it gives time for the spectator to reflect
Lucinda Childs – Carnation (1964)
Non-linearity
Ongoing
Repetition
Exhaustion
Defamiliarisation / estrangement – (e.g. Self Unfinished)
