“In some of my work, the people become the central focus, as they respond to situations that I trigger through some constraint, object, or opportunity. In others, an object I create becomes the central focus, yet only when it is activated by human participation. I attempt to create situations, objects, and spaces that ask us [...]
art as timeframe
Rhizom: “The Loneliness of the Project” – Boris Groys “In the past two decades the art project – in lieu of the work of art – has without question moved to centre stage in the art world’s attention. Each art project may presuppose the formulation of a specific aim and of a strategy designed to [...]
just sits there
from Deborah Fisher: Understanding Time I: Sculpture is generally seen as time-avoidant or merely three-dimensional. After all, it just sits there. But nothing could be further from the truth. First of all, it sits there and waits for you to interact with it in all four of your dimensions. You animate a sculpture by walking [...]
tino sehgal
No pictures, please: Claire Bishop on the art of Tino Sehgal: SO YOU WALK INTO THE TOP FLOOR of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London to see This objective of that object, 2004, by Tino Sehgal, a British-born artist based in Berlin. There are five people standing around the galleries with their backs turned [...]
object as abject
I recently simplified my website. Granted, this is not the most interesting way to begin a post, especially one that scrolls. But bear with me, there is a point. You see, I used to have a section devoted to digital work, a section devoted to print design work, and a section devoted to everything else, [...]
cloninger redux
I remember reading this awhile ago and thinking righton, but that was before I became a postmodern relativist who somehow also manages to be a lowbrow modernist. Because now I find Cloninger’s definition of conceptual art to be unfairly reductive, or maybe its because, by positioning myself as a conceptual (post object) artist who still [...]
greedy artists
Hee hee! Listen how Lance Esplund of The New York Sun dogs Lawrence Weiner at the Whitney. one of the major problems with conceptual art and with conceptual artists in general: They want to have their art and eat it too; but they refuse to allow viewers to do either. I Mean, I Dig The [...]
post object
Post-object but no fitzcarraldo.