Dr Larne Abse Gogarty
Has Post Internet (media) gone too far within the art community
Dr Larne Abse Goraty (slade school of fine art, university college London) was the lecturer today (09/10/19), within this artist lecture Dr Larne talked about post media and its issues within the art world. Are some artists view of art to close minded in the sense of culture and community. Ld50 is an independent gallery based in London, which has had many petitions to shut the gallery down due to exhibitions on white supremacy, and its ideals as trump won the election.
71822666, was the name the gallery gave the exhibition tying the art within the thread of trumps hopeful winning of the election. This exhibit included a video shot by the mass shooter Elliot Rodgers. LD50’s staff referred to tweeters (twitter users) as this generations “new artists”. The instillation was covered in candles and crystals, acrylic plaques with tweets printed on them, memes, robot like statues. This installation also included white supremacist videos covering genocide and mesonic symbols.
The berlin Benile 9 is another gallery that uses these post media aspects within their installations and exhibitions. Works within the gallery include that of Timui si-qin, a reflected landscape. His work includes a landscape made from sand and plaster then littered with trash and graffiti, a screen displaying the new piece logo when the screen is not displaying the current viewer. The viewer attempts to read his work as a manmade misuse of nature, but also making nature seem protected. A lone coca cola bottle is placed within the small piece of litter within a bundle of fake office plants. His exhibition displays ideas of futurism and past due to the image convention.
Another area that post media covers would be contemporary music and how fashion responds within the same post internet examples.
Vetements S/S 2016, A/W 2016, A/W 2017 references to nationalism with unnecessary swearwords, the words genetically modified are also printed onto the back of many of there items including long puffer coats meant for the winter season. The term genetically modified is hinting that we are all the same with no differentiation, creating by the government or a higher being to be how they wanted and designed us, how we all fall under the same authority, strengthening there neo Nazi campaigns.
Post internet aesthetics (mediation and irrationality). Comedian Eric wareheim uses a brand of pizza rolls called titinos is described as a dedicated lifestyle coming off as disgusting and grotesque but somewhat enjoyable, including topics of blanc restaurants and tiny feminine bags.
Dyan trecartin and lizzie fitch, mark trade, 2016 http://vimeo.com/200799829 displays an argument/ quest that they venture on which you never end up understanding, mentions of family and cousins but not actually wanting them there. Over drinking and mass eating of unhealthy junk.
All of these and many others are displays of neo nazi-ish, white supremacist and post media which Dr Larne talked about during our artist lecture. Through her PowerPoint display and talks about each peace I came to the understanding that many people display what they feel within art which could be unacceptable to others. Art is something not only visual but also vocal within the population of 7 billion each culture has a different display and meaning of which art they feel is acceptable.
Jade Montserrat
Jade Montserrat and the rainbow tribe [Black lives matter]
Josephine Baker and the rainbow tribe.
Jade Montserrat is a UK based research led artist and writer; she is also a performance artist who works with the human body showing how the body is a work of art but also vulnerable. Her project is a combination of practical and critical practice following the role of Josephine Bakers rainbow tribe.
12 ethnically diverse children were adopted as an experiment to show how mixed race can live and work as a family, people viewed her work as an orphanage where she shows her family as the rainbow tribe. How families can transcend race.
Josephine baker 1906-1975 musical and performance genius, internationally acclaimed music star.
Jade Montserrat began to discuss Josephine baker due to a paper she presented in university. Her interest in her as a black celebrity and the ways race, gender, class, mass identity and celebrity culture can intersect. How a balance between her body and persona. She manipulates her body to show an unapologetic quest she is on for equality and freedom.
Jade Montserrat works with art and activism displaying her thoughts through drawing, painting, performance, installation, sculpture, film, print and text. She aims to expose gaps in our visual and linguistic habits.
She works mainly on large scale written pieces with quotes that reflect back on her black history. Mainly naked when she created these pieces to display a sense of freedom as she creates her large scale charcoal pieces. From this artist talk I have come to learn that art can be displayed and made in many ways, depending on how comfortable an artist is in their own skin.
Daniel Hauser & Marie Antoinette Chiarenza
Daniel Hauser and Marie Antoinette Chiarenza
Marie Antoinette (1957 Tunis) and Daniel Hauser (1959 Bern) are working as a team since 1983. They refer to people who are involved in artworks or maybe just in the process. They became known due to statements such as ‘thinking alone is criminal’, ‘getting paid for doing nothing’ etc. one of the most recent group pieces is the devils contract, which is a 15-minute video discussing ‘the encyclopaedia of witchcraft and demonology’.
As the lecture progressed David Hauser began to talk about his school that he currently runs offering us its history and chances to visit. F+F art school in Zurich Germany (run by David Hauser) means shape and colour, the school was shut down due to political and critical reasons. F+F rose back in the 1970’s, where it has now become a private school. Doris Stauffer left F+F in 1980’s as she didn’t agree with the teaching. She began her strike which she kept going until she died 2 years ago, she ran her own branch of the school where any woman could attend and began teaching witchcraft.
From this lecture I gathered a sense of history and development not only from the artworks discussed by Marie Antoinette but also from the school and company they (Marie Antoinette and David Hauser) both run, from here they began to discuss the ideal of joining there school in the future.
Bedwyr Williams
Bedwyr Williams currently lives outside of Caernarfon in North Wales, who is an artist in residence at next year’s Venice Biennale. Within wales he lives with his father now no longer having a studio and working from home. In 2003 he set up the Blaenau Vista Social club in the back of a caravan.
His artwork is a mixture of performance and video. He makes 3D renditions of places such as the roman baths and controversial buildings around the world. To create these 3d models he outsources designers and works with them to make his ideas come to life.
Williams work merges art and life with the slight addition of a comedic twist that becomes sympathetic and relational.
William’s is interested in the friction between the serious and banal aspects of modern life. He often deliberately refrains from over- explaining his work, preferring to let the work speak for itself and the audience to work from interpretation.
From today’s lecture I have discovered various ways and styles that animation, drawings and performance art can be made and displayed.
Arianne Churchman
Arianne Churchman is a British folk traditionalist who displays her work throughout a wide range of performance, film, sound and sculpture. When studying within reading university she was a serious painter but since then she has begun to reimagine and create her ideas within performance, working from her ideals. Mainly recreating rituals and beliefs within modern day.
From her most recent exhibit titled ‘Horse Play’ she took her inspiration from the characteristics of Hopper Joe and the Minehead Hobby horse procession, in the original play Hopper joe is a farm labourer whose role is to collect money from the audience. The character Hopper Joe is often referred to as a “ragbag” which perceives him as a cluster of materials and ideas.
Annie Churchman’s ‘Horse Play’ takes Hopper Joe’s ‘ragbag’ characteristics and costumes within the original story and replicates his character within her own ideals and creates her own performance.
From today’s lecture I discovered that there is a wide range of performances that take place and can be create from a variety of materials to display within an exhibition and outside within the public’s view.
Rachel Garfield
Working with disjunctions of narrative Rachel Garfield aims to explore the idea of incoherent subject and the formation of subjectivity. Garfield works with the concerns of Avant Garde in a video- based fine art form.
Rachel Garfield graduated art school in 1985, from here she’s been a painter for 20 years working with her Jewish backgrounds and beliefs, displaying racist views of others in her paintings. From her paintings she didn’t know where to go next, so she began looking into Ali G, from here she found that he was Jewish, and had similar beliefs to herself. Having been a child suffering from others racist views on her and her family she was inspired to make a difference with her work “What defines being English”, is being part of this country only available to those who were born here or do their parents have to be from here as well.
‘So, you think you can tell’ is one of Rachel Garfield’s first video- based fine art pieces, displayed within a gallery in Manchester. Her video displays what people view and speculate of others, and how they should be. How religion and culture differ peoples opinions of each other.
With one of her long time friends she made a movie about her and her friends racism stories, telling the truth about what happened to them on a daily basis in many different ways.
From today’s artist talk I have discovered that Rachel Garfield is a video based artist which she developed from being a painter.
Hamishi Farah
Hamishi Farah born 1991, he is a Somali artist born in the Australian administration, he works with painting and other forms of media. As he was denied entry into America and jailed, he returned back to Australia. Upon return to Australia he retired from Australian art, citing institutional racism, empty virtue etc. due to his new work he was then exiled from both Australia and the united states. However, he currently resides in Auckland, New Zealand.
Artworks such as the dog fountain, from his works of Dog Heaven, are dedicated towards a ship known as the sea venture owned by the Virginia company. The water that is inside the dog fountain artwork is from the international waters surrounding Australia, 200 nautical miles where the waters are law less. The dog that appears from within the piece is a symbol of the fall of colonisation.
During the time that Farah made this piece, he was struggling with the aspect of painting. So he used this sculpted piece as the centerpiece within his exhibition.
Karen Kramer
Karen graduated with a BFA from Parsons School of Design, New York in 2003 working in graphic design. In 2013 she completed the MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths, university of London.
Karen Kramer has had exhibitions internationally and selected screenings. Exhibitions such as; Czech Galleries, Prague, 2014, San Francisco, 2014: Arti et Amicitiae etc.
Throughout the talk she showed us series of videos that she had made, one was about the origin of a balloon, she began by showing a mickey mouse balloon, then moving on to what she thought its future would be, with the overlay of an automated alien voice, she added subtitles to explain her ideas.
From here she showed us more of her work, her style and ideas showed me the different styles and ways to create videography, so it may be something I begin to explore in the future, around some of my own ideas.
Karen Sandhu
Sandhu is a poet and a book artist, currently completing her PhD at the Royal Holloway where she was awarded a college studentship. Throughout the lecture she showed us some of the collaborations she’s done, one of which was the institute of contemporary Arts and performed at Camden peoples theatre.
She showed us some of her research and interests which included artist books and visual arts, philosophy and art, curation of art and poetry etc.
She began to show us some of her work including object-based art-highlighting the dangers of allergies. Her work is performative, and it also shows support to the themes of allergies etc. the paper books include physical reactions to allergies such as pollen, nuts etc.
When she was speaking of topics, she felt serious about she was quite robotic and straight faced, attempting to get her point across clearly, however she was very informative.
Amy Pye Studio 1 