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<b>Scenario</b>, an immersive in installation by artist <a href="http://www.corinareynolds.com/">Corina Reynolds</a>, uses the surface language of corporate office culture to explore the themes of white noise and balance. Upon entering Scenario, the visitor is confronted first by an air of chilling calmness and then the overwhelming scent of Sea Breeze Fresh. Through its crisp pungency, the room achieves stasis as if the space has been removed from a bustling New York high rise and plunked into the rustic exhibition space of the Wassaic Project's Mill. The right angles of its white walls and acoustical drop ceiling hold the visitor at the threshold while the bright, beckoning column of fluorescent lights draws them in with tractor beam intensity to the minimalist cubicle at the rear of the installation. It is here that the claustrophobic nature of the space comes to its pinnacle as the visitor takes in the oppressive sound of white noise emitted by the Dohme office unite nestled in the cubicles corner in opposition to the spaces one fanciful escape—a simulation of a 6ft ficus. </div>
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Homeward Found, the Wassaic Project’s sixth annual summer exhibition, refers to a passage, a personal quest, and a seeking of home. The Wassaic Project invites viewers to climb the seven stories of the Maxon Mills grain elevator once again and explore the work of over eighty emerging artists, half of whom are Wassaic Artist Residency alumni. Homeward Found speaks to the domestic themes present throughout the exhibition, as well as the scavenged materials found in many of the works. Jonathan Schipper’s To Dust, brings domestic opulence into the gallery and accelerates the process of decay by mechanically eroding two figurative sculptures. Louie Hinnen’s penthouse kitchen, Cornbread and Buttermilk, and Carmen Osterlye’s floral parlor, Den of Blossomy, bring rooms to life with their immersive installations of internal spaces, creating spaces that are familiar, beautiful yet deeply unsettling. Kevin Cyr’s one person abode, Cabin Tent, deals with themes of shelter, mobility, self-reliance and the instinct to protect from nature, while Markel Uriu’s moss pelt confronts the mythical idea of a journey and shelter within nature. Homeward Found creates a journey for the viewer to reflect on home. The exhibition speaks to the larger sense of comfort and belonging that the Wassaic Project has found over the last six years in the hamlet of Wassaic. - See more at: <a href="http://wassaicproject.org/exhibitions/2013-2/homeward-found/#sthash.xngR3Hpo.dpuf">The Wassaic Project</a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">In the mid 19th century, a group of artists known as the Hudson Valley School sought to capture the magnificence of the American frontier at a time when little of it was seen, and even less was known. It was a precursor to the grand experiment of manifest destiny and glorified the pristine, “virgin” land of this young country as much as it disregarded the history of a civilization who had called it home for thousands of years. These painters corralled their efforts under the cloak of Romanticism, attempting to capture the sublimity </span>of natureʼs prowess under godʼs creation. It was a method of interpreting their surroundings with a child-like innocence, with little regard to sense of place and history, let alone the cultures that inhabited it. While these painters demonstrated a high level of craft and their aesthetic is what the majority of the general public think of when they hear the word “art,” their subject matter is arbitrary and generic, offering the viewer mere surface contemplation; nothing more than the saccharine pleasure of an idealized meadow, river, or mountain.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Greg Stewartʼs sculptural works and performative “survival suits” are eerie mutations of man and animal, designed for the kind of harmonious chaos that is spawned from migration and adaptation in the areas in between urban and rural environments. For </span>Dan Carlson the residue and monuments of the Cold War, in the form of abandoned military bases and industrial wastelands, serve as fertile ground for cultivating response in the form of video installations. Peter Lapsleyʼs sculptures are composed of industrial materials used in contemporary architecture that nod to the perfect forms of ancient mathematics and the ruins that serve as evidence of their unattainability. Producing both reflective and functional research-based works, Jan Mun focuses on cultural and conceptual, text-based work uses Gertrude Stein's writing in tandem with the Human environmental remediation through community-based interventions, while Rick Reid's conceptual, text-based work uses Gertrude Stein's writing in tandem with the Human Genome Project and Davinci's Divine Proportion to create a new vision of human cartography. Corina Reynolds examines our ritualistic relationship with high-technology and its power to homogenize any foreign space into something immediately accessible and familiar whereas Josh Bricker's videos create a kind of displacement where the commonplace, nationalist pride so embedded in American entertainment turns into and familiar, whereas Josh Bricker's videos create a kind of displacement where the something completely alien.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">John Wanzel employs the method of artist as expert, taking a pseudoscientific approach </span>for describing man-made structures in geologic terms, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">while Leah Raintree's shale </span>drawings distort value systems of natural resources in abstracted, economic terms. Tom Pnini's videos reveal the mechanics of illusions created using water, earth, and light, and play nicely with Chad Curtis' scaled down mountains made from everyday materials. Ben Finer's works on paper hinge the seemingly mundane beauty of natural landscapes with a constructed spirituality, while Daniel Glendening acts as a kind of intermediary historian, culling inspiration from the failed utopian experiments of our recent past and producing artifacts that seem to come from the near future.</span></div>
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Fiber Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309540059695871070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102239855605856067.post-8617114317414551442011-04-21T20:39:00.000-07:002011-04-21T20:39:41.098-07:00Here Here!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjjMdcpUXHpiVZsIgtPpqbeGiYj9SXHKUEtWIIyr-kLdHts69Tj_-_Z9w_AkzOl7KlBYPBgUBGaVHL6bI3SCh22uN7f-_THxQMs5MGUSClvFeMVA5DRSX8alhEGnBbcgVp9WuoVERusICl/s1600/HereHere_horizontal01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjjMdcpUXHpiVZsIgtPpqbeGiYj9SXHKUEtWIIyr-kLdHts69Tj_-_Z9w_AkzOl7KlBYPBgUBGaVHL6bI3SCh22uN7f-_THxQMs5MGUSClvFeMVA5DRSX8alhEGnBbcgVp9WuoVERusICl/s320/HereHere_horizontal01.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Come see new works by artists at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Mi.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">April 16th through May 8th.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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In Quit Grad School, Matthew writes about how M.F.A. programs are primarily teaching grad students the skill of self-teaching.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', serif;color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He points out that, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In order to accommodate the growing curiosities of artists, art school curriculum panned backward, increasing scope of possibility while decreasing in details and determined instruction (life drawing in grad school?! Ha!). Prioritizing inclusivity over specificity, schools abandon skill for cognition, then cognition for validation, then validation for oblique encouragements. Perhaps rightly so, but the spiral of what </span></span></span><em style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">not to teach</span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> has left us in a place where the only thing agreeable </span></span></span><em style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to teach</span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is essentially how to teach one’s self.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', serif;color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> This sounds like a great idea, but as Matthew then questions, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">...if we are able to teach ourselves, what need is there for the ensconced institution of school to continue?</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">" </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This is where he hits the nail on the head. What exactly is a graduate program supposed to offer us if we already have the knowhow to push our work forward? What do they promise us? </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: normal;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>Fiber Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309540059695871070noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102239855605856067.post-22124375455628879922010-07-12T21:01:00.000-07:002010-07-20T19:41:29.233-07:00pipilotti rist<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_yfKM2CTqsh2Bva__lajnrRWnrPJkILMr_sgXzpaaMniwtXbyCnz9IuQhbFiiQCfNa3FtVzzWmjQV4fblbV3vzsfKLeL0miRYgcrvAdXZuqybFkbmTwBC8pAjXs6naw9P56T8-CcEX89W/s1600/m_rist_n6.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493243597099527746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_yfKM2CTqsh2Bva__lajnrRWnrPJkILMr_sgXzpaaMniwtXbyCnz9IuQhbFiiQCfNa3FtVzzWmjQV4fblbV3vzsfKLeL0miRYgcrvAdXZuqybFkbmTwBC8pAjXs6naw9P56T8-CcEX89W/s320/m_rist_n6.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 214px;" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">In a conversation between curator Richard Julin and artist Pipilotti Rist in the book <i>Pipilotti Rist / Congratulations</i>, Rist talks about the differences between work that is made one of a kind and work that is mass produced. (p. 25) </div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Pipilotti: Up till now most of my works were so large that they exceeded the means of private space. I am interested in spaces where people can circulate and spend time together, without them actually owning the work. My works were not produced on a large scale for strategic reasons, nor did my gallery ever force me to make smaller ones which would be easier to sell. But of course there's a big discrepancy between original and mass produced work, and as yet I've not come up with a solution to this. I'm interested in the democratic aspect of art and yet I live off it's fetishization. It's a contradiction I've not resolved and something that makes me a bit sad. </span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">What are the merits for both types of work. Like Pipilotti, I have a hard time deciding what working method is more righteous. On one hand, the democratic nature of a mass produced artwork gives the potential to reach a larger audience; but on the other, a one of a kind, original work is more direct. Should we continue to make precious works, keeping our message more pure, but for a smaller, elite audience? Or should we adopt the methods of large mass product producing corporations in order to reach more people?</span></div></div>Fiber Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309540059695871070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102239855605856067.post-16749112330489703002010-06-28T09:16:00.000-07:002010-06-29T14:47:17.104-07:00<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Call for Conversations and Speakers.</span></span></b></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Perhaps, a generalized argument could be made that contemporary artists are primarily concerned with the exploration of subjective realities and are compelled to present their findings objectively. It would follow, that the sciences and the humanities are concerned with the exploration of objective reality through logic and systematized knowledge. We want to know if these are incompatible opposites or complementary parallels. How would a group of disparate types of thinkers discuss aspects of contemporary culture important to all of them? </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"></span></span><a href="http://www.cranbrookart.edu/Pages/CriticalStudies.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Cranbrook Academy of Art</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> is a private art institution made up of 150 M.F.A. studio art candidates. The student body is looking to bring a wide range of world topics into their thoughts and art practice. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We are hosting 2-3 small discussion panels with the aim of connecting the student body to contemporary issues. Each participant will give a 10-15 min talk about their work followed by a group discussion. T</span></span></span><span style="font: 12.0px Arial; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">o give you an idea of what we’re interested in, here is a list of studies we are interested in. Whether it addresses an item on this list or not, we are open to your ideas.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Economics</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Psychology</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">subjective vs. objective thought</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">PTSD or other Service related topics</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">environmental psychology</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Sociology-</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">social networking</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">contemporary gender roles</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Anthropology and Archeology</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Politics </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Environmental Studies</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Email a short proposal including name and contact info and a topic you would like to speak about to rini2323@yahoo.com.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p>Fiber Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309540059695871070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102239855605856067.post-37024963930036266832010-06-13T13:14:00.000-07:002010-07-16T08:35:34.817-07:00A Video Conversation on our MFA<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj42X4drBsUm_CrDhw7Qeqkj0xZ9NffjRtwXKeZV3IJf50YsL0vuOLxcIfUHQiZhPPEwAy_46XuUhZbzrA_8nXSi_FG-D5Q2EPpr3vEATqEgXPRL4LCR7ZS9Hg7RqYgzxGasfmT7sh0xyCY/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-06-13+at+4.15.53+PM.png"><img style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj42X4drBsUm_CrDhw7Qeqkj0xZ9NffjRtwXKeZV3IJf50YsL0vuOLxcIfUHQiZhPPEwAy_46XuUhZbzrA_8nXSi_FG-D5Q2EPpr3vEATqEgXPRL4LCR7ZS9Hg7RqYgzxGasfmT7sh0xyCY/s400/Screen+shot+2010-06-13+at+4.15.53+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482355430808922546" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The new post, <a href="http://blog.art21.org/2010/06/09/a-video-conversation-on-our-mfa/">A video conversation on our MFA</a>, is up on art:21 blog. Artists Vency Yun and Corina Reynolds talk about their MFA experiences from across the Atlantic. <a href="http://blog.art21.org/2010/05/12/on-exchange-from-canada-to-france-reflecting-on-change-and-difference/">Vency Yun</a> is pursuing her MFA in sculpture at Concordia University and is currently working in Marseille, France. <a href="http://www.corinar.com/">Corina Reynolds</a> is pursuing her MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1-TrJrlvoxe0AWanvl9bxBGJcJpB4A-BoloJDWqMTbGrki3ww-3O-5BWDOdytRAchWSz1y-SQpOYGgJaShPGvB9QNSnut4DmnKybnBYUMgYqmB-tfw8xJDWRROPhreqfVVHBRMRmR9OVj/s1600/open-enrollment-banner-1.500.png"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1-TrJrlvoxe0AWanvl9bxBGJcJpB4A-BoloJDWqMTbGrki3ww-3O-5BWDOdytRAchWSz1y-SQpOYGgJaShPGvB9QNSnut4DmnKybnBYUMgYqmB-tfw8xJDWRROPhreqfVVHBRMRmR9OVj/s200/open-enrollment-banner-1.500.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482357839496078722" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 148px; " /></a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Fiber Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309540059695871070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102239855605856067.post-61925744157094811132010-05-28T11:55:00.000-07:002010-06-21T21:37:57.538-07:00Thomas Demand<div style="text-align: justify;">In recently thinking about environment, I came across the work of Photographer Thomas Demand.</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivvBeeXA2GDH2Dh1Z2lIeWJGq4JFws_-se4g49NSOiZI_aYPJd1JmLc-7hXQnX0eTijSIwL93rxUHzP1Ps46jxfLD40x5I1P04fCCqA66SUnFTAeNYXT4-7OZxMlKHjOYILijmAPvEL_HI/s1600/review1body6.jpg"><img style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivvBeeXA2GDH2Dh1Z2lIeWJGq4JFws_-se4g49NSOiZI_aYPJd1JmLc-7hXQnX0eTijSIwL93rxUHzP1Ps46jxfLD40x5I1P04fCCqA66SUnFTAeNYXT4-7OZxMlKHjOYILijmAPvEL_HI/s400/review1body6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476402844648374146" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Barn (1997) by Thomas Demand. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In his work, he creates life-size replicas of prior documented historical/cultural environments. These replicas are constructed with stunning accuracy completely out of colored paper. In the article "Paper Truth: The Know-How of Thomas Demand", published in the <a href="http://www.vsw.org/ai/issues/afterimage-vol-37-no-6/">2010 May/June issue of </a><i><a href="http://www.vsw.org/ai/issues/afterimage-vol-37-no-6/">After Image</a>,</i> author Efrat Biberman examines the intentions behind Demand's choice of included detail. Biberman compares the artists intentions to those of Cindy Sherman in her <i>Untitled Film Stills (1977-80) </i>and notes that while Sherman's works are imitations of corporeal actions without originals, while Demand's works do "not imitate any human activity, but rather rigidly copies seemingly arbitrary and meaningless details."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgvX4cGhdciMtCziNiakH5MQ9bvze_YZa3Gde6W0sslO8VjmqqiZcHfCDbMdjBiKwMz921HfkuIay5XqErU3w1AQkvBskph3oi8nQDeBtKMwZn5cjya9TVZBDzUxW-CP0af-RzorvLVi03/s1600/__TKlot_11140_1_330x740___20090723110302.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgvX4cGhdciMtCziNiakH5MQ9bvze_YZa3Gde6W0sslO8VjmqqiZcHfCDbMdjBiKwMz921HfkuIay5XqErU3w1AQkvBskph3oi8nQDeBtKMwZn5cjya9TVZBDzUxW-CP0af-RzorvLVi03/s400/__TKlot_11140_1_330x740___20090723110302.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476429403747093314" style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 182px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Grotto (2006) by Thomas Demand.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What I find interesting in reading this article and thinking about Demand's work is the idea of mimesis, or mimicry. Over the last year I have observed and discussed the work of<a href="http://www.emilynachison.com/"> Emily Nachison</a> and this idea of mimesis is a key component to her work. Unlike Demand, Nachison uses unnatural materials to mimic the natural word. The fantastical environments she creates evoke questions about disillusionment and consumption. One of her most recent pieces, shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, was similar in theme to one of Demand's pieces—it was a grotto. Made from modern materials often used in the construction and housing industry, Nachison's White Grotto became a welcome oasis in the cacophonous <i>Out of the Woods </i>show that brimmed with video and performance art.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNkvmgRN18LrYUSTaaQJjDnIiktGEf9vh0mx9yC9JRumsbV3cw16UY-sT3Dc3IJ-JnEi1kWUaP03wJ3eTZ0TCRlQcOPKPp3oZazD78vW0qt0iqloKGtBG6Cu7B3b2OxRmK4-tlHvP7J7cK/s1600/15_EN.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNkvmgRN18LrYUSTaaQJjDnIiktGEf9vh0mx9yC9JRumsbV3cw16UY-sT3Dc3IJ-JnEi1kWUaP03wJ3eTZ0TCRlQcOPKPp3oZazD78vW0qt0iqloKGtBG6Cu7B3b2OxRmK4-tlHvP7J7cK/s400/15_EN.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476491211099808882" style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 400px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> White Room Installation (2009) Emily Nachison.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At Canadian Art's website, Bryne Mclaughlin reviews Demand's work and presents excellent pictorial examples of the exquisite detail in his article <i><a href="http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2009/01/08/thomas-demand/">Thomas Demand: Mom, Apple Pie, and the Oval Office.</a></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Emily Nachison is currently exhibiting at the Museum of New Art in Pontiac, Michigan. The show runs from June 19th till July 24th with an opening reception on June 19th.</span></i></div></div>Fiber Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309540059695871070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102239855605856067.post-83727866259253922742010-05-22T12:30:00.000-07:002010-07-16T08:35:34.817-07:00Open Enrollment<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi73FZUNuINDRDygq6b2yMOGnH3UDxoVvdj9OPwplftlTxxX1GGVMzYDxExTsgiRTGtmF0q2BHVgvBUaaznTnQOo33VxuRop2MFOf1PpaMfPlSYjOB_Vdo3Lr0JQzkS2fjrALL2tQ8xexHA/s1600/open-enrollment-banner.500.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi73FZUNuINDRDygq6b2yMOGnH3UDxoVvdj9OPwplftlTxxX1GGVMzYDxExTsgiRTGtmF0q2BHVgvBUaaznTnQOo33VxuRop2MFOf1PpaMfPlSYjOB_Vdo3Lr0JQzkS2fjrALL2tQ8xexHA/s400/open-enrollment-banner.500.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474179537971301170" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">-</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Art21 is proud to announce the launch of </span></span><strong style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><a href="http://blog.art21.org/2010/04/07/new-column-open-enrollment-meet-our-writers/#more-18140"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9966;">Open Enrollment</span></span></a></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, the newest column on this site.</span></span><strong style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><a href="http://blog.art21.org/2010/05/07/big-huge-end-of-the-year-m-f-a-group-show/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9966;">Open Enrollment</span></span></a></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> chronicles the experience of graduate school via the perspective of current students. </span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bloggers in Residence for Art21 Blog’s </span></span><a href="http://blog.art21.org/category/columns/open-enrollment/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9966;">Open Enrollment</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9966;">:</span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://mikebrenner.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9966;">Mike Brenner</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)<br /></span></span><a href="http://www.danielingroff.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9966;">Daniel Ingroff</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> (Mountain School of Arts)<br /></span></span><a href="http://www.carriemcgath.com/www.carriemcgath.com/Welcome.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9966;">Carrie McGath</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(The School of the Art Institute of Chicago)<br /></span></span><a href="http://matthewstudio.com/Site/Matthew_Newton.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9966;">Matthew Newton</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> (Hunter College)<br /></span></span><a href="http://www.corinar.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9966;">Corina Reynolds</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9966;"> </span>(Cranbrook Academy of Art)<br /></span></span><a href="http://www.lilyrossebo.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9966;">Lily Rossebo</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> (Edinburgh College of Art)<br /></span></span><a href="http://songco.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9966;">Jeffrey Augustine Songco</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> (San Francisco Art Institute)<br /></span></span><a href="http://oliverwunsch.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9966;">Oliver Wunsch</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> (Williams College)<br /></span></span><a href="http://thelonghaulmontreal.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9966;">Vency Yun</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9966;"> </span>(Concordia University)</span></span></span></div></div></div>Fiber Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309540059695871070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102239855605856067.post-2283625544677043072010-03-14T18:01:00.000-07:002010-03-20T19:15:10.427-07:00Derya Hanife Altan-Traps<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimIOZ_SQYfGpYIIIO8lPhSrwLUdLkHTXBoaet80QFvAT1Gk7swYhMfrUJ5WttB7k_5n-B0OS9_-AZsqxXsDAPDEtT3R-ihxZqivrtdIG9uaLI4FnPb6OIlb8iIMxQhO98NvIb0Cse56Gkf/s1600-h/lobstertrapdetail.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimIOZ_SQYfGpYIIIO8lPhSrwLUdLkHTXBoaet80QFvAT1Gk7swYhMfrUJ5WttB7k_5n-B0OS9_-AZsqxXsDAPDEtT3R-ihxZqivrtdIG9uaLI4FnPb6OIlb8iIMxQhO98NvIb0Cse56Gkf/s400/lobstertrapdetail.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449954635917320274" /></a><div style="text-align: justify; ">A warm summer day at grandma's house—that is where I go when sitting with <a href="http://cutslikehanife.com/home.html">Derya Altan</a>'s new traps. Inspired by primitive traps used to capture small wild animals, the two new objects in Altan's ghost trap series come a step closer to home, luring the viewer into her thought space through an inventive and visceral use of materials. For example; the Maine lobster trap, made out of sand-encrusted cardboard and homey, crochet afghan becomes a space very familiar to those raised in suburbia. Altan cleverly plays, making puns with the common parts of the trap—flooring the "kitchen" in linoleum and the "parlor" of the trap in tan carpeting. Sitting in the belly of the trap are the book <i>Franny and Zooy</i> by J.D. Salinger and a set of kid-sized keys luring the viewer in with the ghost.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The term <i>ghost</i>, for the artist, gets a new meaning; it refers to those parts of yourself that are hidden or cast away for social normality. Altan spoke of them as parts of your personality you have "unresolved relationships" with; in creating these traps, she tries to settle them. In the lobster trap, she examines duality living in different aspects of our personalities. On one hand is the alluring, comforting possibility of returning home as an adult and on the other is a view of this option as a trap. She uses this object as a way of capturing the part of herself, the ghost, so that so that she will not get caught.</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2cNUvZsCN2BvY9Py3kDwlgl8XUeg1pukMIrt2rX1fbgfTjydNZW6AIRcC_jZlzzEcYD57I97IXfXB6_bEy7mIxGUvCn3ynJOElyBgudIay-EykdZ07VuKBRSXWwQAkHF-mv2cfBhtvd0B/s1600-h/lobstertrapdetail3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2cNUvZsCN2BvY9Py3kDwlgl8XUeg1pukMIrt2rX1fbgfTjydNZW6AIRcC_jZlzzEcYD57I97IXfXB6_bEy7mIxGUvCn3ynJOElyBgudIay-EykdZ07VuKBRSXWwQAkHF-mv2cfBhtvd0B/s400/lobstertrapdetail3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449954556699981586" /></a><div style="text-align: left;">Through Altan's personal explorations in these objects, she opens up a familiar dialogue box in the viewer. Her potent use of materials lure you into a mind-space soaked in the leftovers of teen angst and introspection. Much of Altan's work brings me to think about my own perspective on life and these new works leave me thinking about a question proposed by Mugi Takei, "is this work sexy, or not sexy?"</div>Fiber Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309540059695871070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102239855605856067.post-1625257856712718792010-03-05T07:26:00.000-08:002010-03-20T19:14:00.874-07:00UNIFORM: SIGNIFIER OF AUTHORITY<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7bs5G8EG2Qk29o7igk9w3MdyKcip02vatlL2yKIr16r9KuEFDzMkgaRW7kbF7dfW3gt2y_l6fSRWGJk9HEs4XtilYl1AiDT1oDi-8V4JZ27YCON5ZXy36x500zxTjS4RQgffVKQsgI1ii/s1600-h/authoritysignifier.jpg"><img style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 133px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7bs5G8EG2Qk29o7igk9w3MdyKcip02vatlL2yKIr16r9KuEFDzMkgaRW7kbF7dfW3gt2y_l6fSRWGJk9HEs4XtilYl1AiDT1oDi-8V4JZ27YCON5ZXy36x500zxTjS4RQgffVKQsgI1ii/s400/authoritysignifier.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445175051262624066" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">"The uniform is the institutional skin," say <a href="http://www.dillerscofidio.com/">Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofido</a> in the book <i>Flesh</i>, "it identifies a body's specific function in a given institution and thus defines the behavior of others."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To me the uniform works in a secret code transmitting exactly how the wearer should be treated. Some uniforms function in all settings (like a fireman's uniform,) while others are more site specific. The ambiguity of these uniforms that depend on location for completing their social cues makes them an interesting subject for testing. For example, a navy blue button up shirt in one environment—an elementary school hallway—may indicate a janitor, someone who is often ignored and summoned only for extremely disgusting jobs, yet in another setting—a police office—this same article of clothing could indicate a position of ultimate authority. This specific zone could be used to challenge and call out an individual's subconscious in a test of free association. </div>Fiber Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309540059695871070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102239855605856067.post-72683641099166323952010-02-27T15:03:00.000-08:002010-05-30T12:03:40.630-07:00PLEASE TOUCH<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiErkaHMBPavtbJX4dDQx3E-FSRv10iE3Oey3h_1hFiU3UCxqRtZ0GvIIUGOGwrXL1EOi0qz0dFgxJr2T0eohw8wY6XpXHXpAqctSgPwaxOvyfFx1pqDw3KGNL3-mHSBXIoP9pmSsfvgijd/s1600-h/Please-touch.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiErkaHMBPavtbJX4dDQx3E-FSRv10iE3Oey3h_1hFiU3UCxqRtZ0GvIIUGOGwrXL1EOi0qz0dFgxJr2T0eohw8wY6XpXHXpAqctSgPwaxOvyfFx1pqDw3KGNL3-mHSBXIoP9pmSsfvgijd/s400/Please-touch.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443069999736049986" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">"This was one of the best openings I've ever been to here at Forum," blurted Kimberly McClure at the opening for the show this last week. The premiss for the show <i>Please Touch </i>was to gather an audience to critique and explore the idea of physical interaction as a key component in a work of art. Five Cranbrook artists (Tom Friel, Seth Keller, Corina Reynolds, Tricia Stackle, and Erin Yuasa) showed their work inviting the visitors to interact. Some of the works were playful, looking to children's toys as inspiration for ways to entice viewers to touch. Other works evoked the language of tools to communicate the message "please touch." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Erin Yuasa's sand boxes functioned beautifully in the space between aesthetic object and tool, inviting visitors to handle the paddles and funnels in the box while at the same time creating a space to think about the action of interacting, both with the object and the other people sharing the experience with you.</div>Fiber Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309540059695871070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102239855605856067.post-23308670106626342452010-02-16T06:32:00.000-08:002010-05-30T12:03:40.631-07:00PLEASE TOUCH<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAwvEldqOeOMzXfZEI-_yjdUrFK4rV-qQvspb6yrwrJwmihS8zyYVg60MfxYA8T-EUoaH4WaNNtmWXyGFuNVymrnwf3lvgTzqU_Ci1Vm8O3NrKGtlA8hZ191BDT7xbVcSpidK-mX5cSUf7/s1600-h/StackleT03.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438849329707901586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 297px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAwvEldqOeOMzXfZEI-_yjdUrFK4rV-qQvspb6yrwrJwmihS8zyYVg60MfxYA8T-EUoaH4WaNNtmWXyGFuNVymrnwf3lvgTzqU_Ci1Vm8O3NrKGtlA8hZ191BDT7xbVcSpidK-mX5cSUf7/s400/StackleT03.jpg" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="LINE-HEIGHT: 17px;font-family:Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:9;"> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Trisha Stackle. </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Wall Installation I: Moonlight Melody</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">, 2009, fabric, rice, foam, wood, latex paint, 4' W x 8' H x 6" D</span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><br /></span></div></span><div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PLEASE TOUCH opens this Friday at Forum Gallery at 6pm in Bloomfield Hills, Mi.</span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"> </div><div>Artists:</div><div>Tom Friel</div><div><a href="http://www.wwgoa.com/editors.cfm/mode/keller">Seth Keller</a></div><div><a href="http://corinareynolds.blogspot.com/">Corina Reynolds</a></div><div><a href="http://fryemuseum.org/event/3172/">Tricia Stackle</a></div><div><a href="http://www.cranbrookart.edu/Pages/CeramicsDeptSTU09102.html#EY">Erin Yuasa</a></div><div><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">For more information about PLEASE TOUCH visit <a href="http://motorcityblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/please-touch-cranbrook-forum-gallery.html">detroiter MOTORCITYBLOG.net motorcity motorcityblog detroit music art events: PLEASE TOUCH - Cranbrook Forum Gallery Bloomfield Hills - Fri 2/19</a></div></div>Fiber Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309540059695871070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102239855605856067.post-69978008335758256812010-02-03T09:28:00.000-08:002010-05-30T12:03:05.987-07:00Martha Mysko—5x5 cube<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVRNrqnc8d1rGzCSuThHzWrRzUegqIcxjx2ixIHv1oueC44L0p8TColzukUaO6WeeUmaMoJBB30ehjrSwquz8lPpXdjEJK08Q8HgOKX3hJ2pyS4QMquTPjQXIkwUOMmGlOb8TsilldscTx/s1600-h/mmysko5x5cube.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVRNrqnc8d1rGzCSuThHzWrRzUegqIcxjx2ixIHv1oueC44L0p8TColzukUaO6WeeUmaMoJBB30ehjrSwquz8lPpXdjEJK08Q8HgOKX3hJ2pyS4QMquTPjQXIkwUOMmGlOb8TsilldscTx/s400/mmysko5x5cube.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438850505143453698" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Containment, control, concealment, dependency, memorialization, obsolescence, and erasure. <a href="http://marthamysko.blogspot.com/">Martha Mysko</a>'s new work, a 5x5 cube sheathed in clear vinyl, showcases a tight collection of objects all depending on one another in an intricate network of viewer associations. Throughout her work, Mysko carries a mixed bag of tricks including links to memory and forgetting, puzzles and critical observation, and a firm control over the dependency of a large array of elements. In our discussion of the work, ideas of light and memory were strong veins of dialogue. The cube, lit from inside—red and yellow—by an overhead projector, took on two personalities as the environmental life changed from day to night. These personalities line up with Mysko's previous works relating to home/residential spaces; furthermore, these personalities, coming from the daily light and living cycles a house goes through, seem to question who's home. The lights are on. Is someone home, is this a memory of events past, or is this a cleaver way of deterring trespassers. In this work, like others, Mysko utilizes a white washing technique to further remove information allowing the red and yellow light to wash over the installation, bathing it in an empty, questioning glow.</div>Fiber Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309540059695871070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102239855605856067.post-47090756993553913382009-11-27T09:43:00.000-08:002010-05-30T12:03:40.631-07:00Kelly Dobson's Blendie<span class="Apple-style-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); LINE-HEIGHT: 20px"><p style="MARGIN: 0.75em 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; WHITE-SPACE: pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; WHITE-SPACE: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#ffffff;">An interactive object shown in video form.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0.75em 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; WHITE-SPACE: pre"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; WHITE-SPACE: normal"></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;color:#ffffff;"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6DDkwdPaYmk&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6DDkwdPaYmk&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0.75em 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; WHITE-SPACE: pre"></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;color:#ffffff;">From Dobson's statement about Blendie:</span></span></span></p></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); LINE-HEIGHT: 20px"><p style="MARGIN: 0.75em 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#ffffff;">Blendie is an interactive, sensitive, intelligent, voice controlled blender with a mind of its own. Materials are a 1950's Osterizer blender altered with custom made hardware and software for sound analysis and motor control.</span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0.75em 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#ffffff;">People induce the blender to spin by sounding the sounds of its motor in action. A person may growl low pitch blender-like sounds to get it to spin slow (Blendie pitch and power matches the person) and the person can growl blender-style at higher pitches to speed up Blendie. The experience for the participant is to speak the language of the machine and thus to more deeply understand and connect with the machine. The action may also bring about personal revelations in the participant. The participant empathizes with Blendie and in this new approach to a domestic appliance, a conscious and personally meaningful relationship is facilitated.</span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;color:#ffffff;"><p style="MARGIN: 0.75em 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"><br /></p></span></span></span><p style="MARGIN: 0.75em 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#ffffff;">Recently I've been thinking a lot about viewer interaction and to what degree I want my viewers to interact with my objects. In this piece, Kelly Dobson is able to entice the viewer into imagining them self in the interaction. </span></span></span></p></span></span>Fiber Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309540059695871070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102239855605856067.post-64825626729419334322009-11-07T09:42:00.000-08:002010-05-30T12:03:40.631-07:00Art and Interaction<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4l9fMDF_wTc7HFO3-dbU_JleDjAJ9zGyzjBCdPg1u6OSQ2N8DDO9gMZNG9Jt0a_x2m1eeJ_U-qwFP2RYg-oDjc1uzSZtF8XSWBwGAY5auGEaA8GzTWOMZCKbBUSfG5LPDVdwIVKbtLHcS/s1600-h/DSC_0415+copy.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4l9fMDF_wTc7HFO3-dbU_JleDjAJ9zGyzjBCdPg1u6OSQ2N8DDO9gMZNG9Jt0a_x2m1eeJ_U-qwFP2RYg-oDjc1uzSZtF8XSWBwGAY5auGEaA8GzTWOMZCKbBUSfG5LPDVdwIVKbtLHcS/s200/DSC_0415+copy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401429001175326210" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Since my crit on Wednesday, and after the gallery talk this morning with <a href="http://www.janelackey.com/">Jane Lackey</a>, I have been thinking a lot about how a viewer engages with work of art. In the new series of work I have started the objects are designed with the intention of highlighting the didactic experience, focusing on what can be learned through interaction. I have always been interested in how a viewer's willingness to physically engage with a work shifts depending on the location of an object. When a viewer enters a gallery space, it seems as though an invisible wall is subconsciously built in front of a work thereby limiting their potential exchange. On a trip to San Francisco a few years back, I visited the de Young museum and saw a piece by Breton. Physical interaction with the piece was very strongly implied, on it was a big red button with the words "Push Me," yet not one visitor pushed the button. In contrast, in San Diego's Balboa park, sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle seemed to invite physical involvement. While I am not interested in placing my work in the same outdoor, public environment, I am interested in why this difference in allowing one's self to interact happens.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In a discussion with <a href="http://rosemarydardick.com/">Rosemary Dardick</a> earlier this week, she talked about how these subconscious physical barriers that occur in the gallery space must be rooted in the traditions of art display. It can be impossible to communicate that an object should be touched because these rules are so strongly anchored to the space. In her gallery talk today, Jane Lackey spoke about a map-like piece in her show at the Lemberg Gallery that is made with the intent of being opened, but that is rendered untouchable because of its fragility. As a result, the function of the piece is denied to the viewer and therefore becomes a space for the viewer to ponder what the experience would be like. In <a href="http://www.celiabutler.com/">Celia Butler</a>'s new work, a stack of unassembled boxes creates the same space for the viewer to think about the experience. This lead me to consider the importance of physical engagement with art. Can the same message be delivered without the interaction? Should the viewer interact? Does it give to much away to let them manipulate the object? and conversely, If the interaction is necessary, how do you break down those barriers?</div>Fiber Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309540059695871070noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8102239855605856067.post-17782290404857615722009-10-24T14:24:00.000-07:002010-02-20T12:36:42.757-08:00Art and Everyday Life<p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 16px Arial; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Today in critical studies, Lane Relyea proposed a question while talking about art pushing to infiltrate everyday life in past years. He asked, why do we want art to be a part of life? Why do we want to merge art seamlessly into daily life? For me this brought up another question, "why don't I want art to be integrated into life?" In my mind, design is where art meets life.</span></p><span style="font-family:arial;"><p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 16px Arial; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"><br /></p></span><p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 16px Arial; TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></span><span style="font-family:arial;">For a while now I have been rocking back and forth on the merits of design and its ability to bridge the gap between art and life. On one hand is this utopian view for a future world, where every object is well designed and durable, yielding less need for consumer consumption. On the other I look at design as a lesser form of art, creating for the consumer rather than for the self. For some unknown reason I have the strong urge to separate art and life.</span></p>Fiber Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309540059695871070noreply@blogger.com0