CURRENT AND CONCEPTUAL ART
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LAND ART – Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels
- Land art as conceptual art: 1. Rejects commodification, 2. Raises questions
surrounding what art is and if a work needs to be viewed by people to be
considered art
- 1973-1976
- Brief Description: Four massive cylindrical, concrete tunnels large enough for
a viewer to walk inside positioned in a cross formation on the Great Basin
Desert in Utah.
- Where the work is: Great Basin Desert in Utah, why – the tunnels can only
eist in that particular place, the work evolved out of its site, the sun rises
and sets in the right places in the desert, need open spaces so that the
sun is not blocked
- Foreground the body as the primary site of the pieces activation
- Stands as a testament to human will
- How the environment interacts with the artwork: The works orientation is
precisely calibrated so that its four tubes frame the sun on the horizon at the
summer and winter solstices
- How the environment interacts with the artwork: The tunnels have small holes,
modelled on the position of four constellations, that throw scattered discs of
light onto the viewer nestled inside
- How the work was created: Installing the art was a lot of effort – tons of
concrete had to be hauled into the desert and the artist worked with engineers
astrologists, contractors and crane operators
- The sites are the artwork, the tunnels draw your attention to it
- The artwork brings the cosmos down to the earth and into the realm of human
experience
- Difference view every time you see it - if it were in a gallery the view
would never change
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PERFORMANCE ART – Marina Abramovic, Rhythm 0
- 1974
- Serbian performance artist
- Reaction to the aggressive, Masochistic (deriving sexual graitifcation from
ones own pain or humiliation) and sensationalist performances.
- An impassive artwork that put her completely in the hands fo her
audience.
- She stood in the middle of the space ith a table with very carefully chosen
object – objects for pleasure, pain and some tht could bring death.
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LAND ART – Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels
- Land art as conceptual art: 1. Rejects commodification, 2. Raises questions
surrounding what art is and if a work needs to be viewed by people to be
considered art
- 1973-1976
- Brief Description: Four massive cylindrical, concrete tunnels large enough for
a viewer to walk inside positioned in a cross formation on the Great Basin
Desert in Utah.
- Where the work is: Great Basin Desert in Utah, why – the tunnels can only
eist in that particular place, the work evolved out of its site, the sun rises
and sets in the right places in the desert, need open spaces so that the
sun is not blocked
- Foreground the body as the primary site of the pieces activation
- Stands as a testament to human will
- How the environment interacts with the artwork: The works orientation is
precisely calibrated so that its four tubes frame the sun on the horizon at the
summer and winter solstices
- How the environment interacts with the artwork: The tunnels have small holes,
modelled on the position of four constellations, that throw scattered discs of
light onto the viewer nestled inside
- How the work was created: Installing the art was a lot of effort – tons of
concrete had to be hauled into the desert and the artist worked with engineers
astrologists, contractors and crane operators
- The sites are the artwork, the tunnels draw your attention to it
- The artwork brings the cosmos down to the earth and into the realm of human
experience
- Difference view every time you see it - if it were in a gallery the view
would never change
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PERFORMANCE ART – Marina Abramovic, Rhythm 0
- 1974
- Serbian performance artist
- Reaction to the aggressive, Masochistic (deriving sexual graitifcation from
ones own pain or humiliation) and sensationalist performances.
- An impassive artwork that put her completely in the hands fo her
audience.
- She stood in the middle of the space ith a table with very carefully chosen
object – objects for pleasure, pain and some tht could bring death.
