Celebrated for his gigantic, stainless steel 'Cloud Gate' sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park, Anish Kapoor is changing the cultural environment with his public works.
1.Research Kapoor's work in order to discuss the ideas behind 3 quite different works from countries outside New Zealand.
2.Discuss the large scale site specific work that has been installed on a private site in New Zealand.
3. Where is the Kapoor's work in New Zealand? What are its form and materials? What are the ideas behind the work?
4. Comment on which work by Kapoor is your favourite, and why.
Youtube has some excellent footage on Kapoor-take a look at Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy!!
a) Saskia Leek
b) Fiona Connor
c) Dan Arps
d) Alex Monteith
This week we will be visiting the Auckland Art Gallery to view, research and write about the artists selected for the Walters Prize 2010. Discuss the work in the gallery with your tutors and other students and answer the following questions.
1. What is the background to the Walters Prize?
2. List the 4 selected artists for 2010 and briefly describe their work.
3. Who are the jury members for 2010?
4. Who is the judge for 2010 and what is his position in the art world?
5. Who would you nominate for this years Walter's Prize, and why? Substantiate
you answer by outlining the strengths of the artists work. How does this relate
to your interests in art? What aspect of their work is successful in your opinion,
in terms of ideas, materials and/or installation of the work?
6. Comment on other blogs from your ALVC group to agree or disagree with other people,always backing up your answer with clearly stated reasons.
Hussein Chalayan is an artist and designer, working in film, dress and installation art. Research Chalayan’s work, and then consider these questions in some thoughtful reflective writing.
1.Chalayan’s works in clothing, like Afterwords (2000) and Burka (1996) , are often challenging to both the viewer and the wearer. What are your personal responses to these works? Are Afterwords and Burka fashion, or are they art? What is the difference?
Not all clothing is fashion, so what makes fashion fashion?
Hussein Chalayan, Burka, 1996
Hussein Chalayan, Afterwords, 2000
2.Chalayan has strong links to industry. Pieces like The Level Tunnel (2006) and Repose (2006) are made in collaboration with, and paid for by, commercial business; in these cases, a vodka company and a crystal manufacturer. How does this impact on the nature of Chalayan’s work? Does the meaning of art change when it is used to sell products? Is it still art?
3.Chalayan’s film Absent Presence screened at the 2005 Venice Biennale. It features the process of caring for worn clothes, and retrieving and analysing the traces of the wearer, in the form of DNA. This work has been influenced by many different art movements; can you think of some, and in what ways they might have inspired Chalayan’s approach?
Hussein Chalayan, still from Absent Presence, 2005 (motion picture)
4.Many of Chalayan’s pieces are physically designed and constructed by someone else; for example, sculptor Lone Sigurdsson made some works from Chalayan’s Echoform (1999) and Before Minus Now (2000) fashion ranges. In fashion design this is standard practice, but in art it remains unexpected. Work by artists such as Jackson Pollock hold their value in the fact that he personally made the painting. Contrastingly, Andy Warhol’s pop art was largely produced in a New York collective called The Factory, and many of his silk-screened works were produced by assistants. Contemporarily, Damien Hirst doesn’t personally build his vitrines or preserve the sharks himself. So when and why is it important that the artist personally made the piece?
Research Djurberg's work in order to answer the following questions;
1. What do you understand by the word 'claymation'?
2. What is meant by the term 'surrealistic Garden of Eden'? and 'all that is natural goes awry'?
3. What are the 'complexity of emotions' that Djurberg confronts us with?
4. How does Djurberg play with the ideas of children's stories, and innocence in some of her work?
5. There is a current fascination by some designers with turning the innocent and sweet into something disturbing. Why do you think this has come about?
6. In your opinion, why do you think Djurberg's work is so interesting that it was chosen for the Venice Biennale?
7. Add some of your own personal comments on her work.
3. Write postings for your blog every week, for 6 weeks.
4. Provide comments on the blogs of your ALVC co-students every week.
Assessment details
Details regarding what to write each week will be posted on the cadiblog. The
address is: http://cadiblog2010.blogspot.com/You will need to read the
cadiblog each week.
Each week you will post your writing and images on your blog. This should be at least 250 words on your blog, and 100 word comments on at least 2 other blogs. Comments should be on student blogs from your ALVC group.
250 words on your blog
100 words on at least 2 other student blogs
You will need to do this work weekly as a blog is a form of a conversation
that needs to be dynamic and current.
Please note that the University has a large number of computers that are
available for student use. You should all know where to locate these.
All blogs must be complete by the week ending Friday 3 September, 5pm.
Blogs will be assessed after this date.
Cai Gou-Qiang Inopportune: Stage One (detail) 2004
How can we categorize Banksy's work -graffiti or murals?
Research Banksy's work to attempt to answer this question. What are some of the differing opinions about Banksy's work? How does his work sit in relation to consumerism? Can his work be sold? What are some of his attitudes to the sale of Art? Who is Banksy? Do we know his true identity? Upload 2-3 images of Banksy's work that you find interesting, and comment on the ideas behind the work.
'Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam- 'Towards the Complex-For the Courageous, the Curious and the Cowards', (2001) is a video project by Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba.
Research this project to identify the ideas behind the work. Can you connect some of the concepts and ideas from the renaissance, Enlightenment or Modernism with the work. Discuss your answer.
Discuss how do you think the title of the work reflects
