Situation documents
in contemporary art.
Generally speaking is artistic activity that takes place
outside the art market and its forums. The terms and modes below are:
Interruption,
event in progress, cross referencing occurring across time and space. The social and political context of the
street or urban environment. Engages to
trouble the familiar.(J.Rugg exploring site-specific,p5)
Walter Benjamin “
the here and now of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of
authenticity”.
Duchamp says that ‘the artist of the future will be
underground’ (p143 situation) underground pearl.
The search for the authentic site. Small gestures in specific places.
Site specific. =
is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Where the artist takes into account
the history and context of the site. Specific place, public space. Miwon Kwon, says the concept of site has been
transformed from a physical fixed place to a fluid, discursive field.
Situating installation.
A Happening= an
event or occurrence, incident. Suddenly. Unexpected.
Situation specific=
where the site specificity can tour to different situations.
Site ( non
gallery)
Quasi = likeness
to something, having some resemblance.
Situational=
(situation=a set of conditions in a time and place).
Art intervention=
an art interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience, or
venue/space, a conceptual element.
Site specificity=
place, locality, time, context and space (genealogy of) rather than a fixed
notion of site.
Spatial situation=
spatial= relating to space.
Field-type situation=
land use interpretations
Site related art practice=
On location= a
site away from home/ studio
Situation-specificity=
behaviour is determined by aspects of the situation, reward, ..
Spectacular
intrusion. Spectacular= beautiful and dramatic, eye catching,
striking. Intrusion= unwelcome,
inappropriate.
Constructed situation=
bringing together various conceptual elements, build or erect in a certain time
and place.
Interdisciplinary
considerations= the considerations that it might relate to more than one
branch of knowledge. (historically, geologically, ecologically, globally,
politically).
A situation with a
curatorial perspective. Primary motive is the production of new localities.
Place making.
Intervention= an
action or process of intervening. Interference, interposition.
Exploring site-specific art. Judith Rugg
Ephemeral
interventionist art.
Temporal spatial.
Short lived artworks.
Repositioning the
boat in the market. To draw attention to the overlooked. ?which has the
capacity to animate linger as a catalyst for memory an d debate. And confront, focus attention to the
message and meaning of the work.
Timely project that
functions in different contexts and intentions.
Pycho-geographical
engagement (get the local fishing families to sign their names on the boat).
Interrelationship of space are considered. The Beach as a cultural ritual.
Winter visual and sound projections, inside and outside the boat.
Spatial orientation of
the beach and sea desires a space of transience, where the authenticity of the
past, presence and future come together. The Boat and fishermen live
transiently on the sea and land, in many weathers. The fishermen are grounded
and rooted in their profession on water.
Parallels: urban
chaos and claustrophobia vs expanse of the sea.
Disconnection to vital resources or even abuse of vs ...
Conflicts: expanding
accessibility to produce globally vs extinction of vital resources.
Boat as Metaphor:
filling an emptiness.
The boat installation:
interplays between the internal and external site of in and out of place.
Isolation and escape.
Interstitial border:
Interstice is an empty space full of structure or matter, situated between
structure..
Evoke tensions and contradictions? Within the changing sites
of the boat in the market place, art in a boat plot. Focuses attention on the
overlooked and significance.
Relational Aesthetics=
…’Role of the art object in social aesthetics= brings nto play
modes of social exchange, interaction with the viewer inside the aesthetic
experience he of she is offered, and processes of communication in their
concrete dimensions as tools that can be used to bring together individual and
human groups.’p165
artworks that make the viewer conscious of the context in
which they find themselves (happening, environments, site specific
installation).
Sustained interest? Does it bring us face to face with
reality?
Does the work critique what needs to be critiqued?
