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ASSESSMENT 3 - link

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Cbzl7TEAhN4z3j6tn9E_18v2oCwnjiPE-oVlDV_mu58/edit#gid=0

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Daniel Boyd: Transit of Venus

This exhibition is particularly interesting in light of the First Footprints episode we watched in week 11.

http://tinsheds.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/the-transit-of-venus-an-exhibition-with-daniel-boyd-opens-24th-may-6pm/

The same exhibition presented by his commercial gallery

http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/287/Daniel_Boyd/1391/

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Week 11: When context is changed

https://theconversation.com/aboriginal-people-how-to-misunderstand-their-science-23835

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pathway

Public>Commercial>Contemporary Art>Contemporary Art Spaces>ARIs, Contemporary Multi-Arts> Installation>Public Art>Art and Social Context>Art and Political Context and Transgression>Art Outside the Western Museum Context

Primitivism

1936 Surrealist exhibition of Objects

http://www.artsetsocietes.org/a/a-leclercq.html

1984 MOMA exhibition "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art

http://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared//pdfs/docs/press_archives/6087/releases/MOMA_1984_0023_23.pdf?2010

1989 Magiciens de la terre

http://magiciensdelaterre.fr/

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/eventseries/magiciens-de-la-terre-reconsidered

Grande Halle de la Villette, Jangarh Singh Shyam

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The Context of Transgression and its relationship to the Political in Art

Notes:

The Cinema of Transgression was a name coined by American filmmaker Nick Zedd to describe a group of filmmakers who set out to break boundaries. The term transgressive itself was first used by Zedd to describe his legacy with revolutionary filmmakers Kenneth Anger, Paul Morrissey and John Waters,

Interview with Nick Zedd:

http://www.newyorkwaste.com/nyw_main/underground/todaysart.html

Kenneth Anger

b 1927

Lucifer rising (1972) (5:40, 19:30)

Satanic references and the musician hired to make the soundtrack Bobby Beausoleil had been convicted of murdering someone under the instruction of Charles Manson. There were also associations with occultist Aleister Crowley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXSoDyzzpQI

Alejandro Jodorowsky

b 1929

El Topo (1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uqb4Jy0GTg

Carolee Schneemann

b 1939

Meatjoy 1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw_wW2v45eI

Good description:

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uBtjfsPAaM4C&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=schneemann+transgression+meat+joy&source=bl&ots=J3gUWnv1Od&sig=fQJg9cF-Foe4V1R08gElgrGFam4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ue1xU8i9EIfwlAWajoDIDA&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=schneemann%20transgression%20meat%20joy&f=false

Viennese actionism is used to describe activities by a group of Austrian artists

Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler between 1960-71.

There “aktions” were often violent, involving nudity, use of faecal matter, sexual, and abuse of animals in some cases. They were often jailed as a result.

During this time the artist and feminist Valie Export (b. 1940) was also active and created a number of transgressive works, including Action Pants: Genital Panic

http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/06/02/action-pants-genital-panic/

Oleg Kulik

b 1961

Kulik critiques society through his portrayal of a dog in various performances where he appears naked except for a collar and leash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-QvjRkeigU

Yoko Ono

b.1933

Yoko Ono’s “cut piece”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYJ3dPwa2tI

7:04

Yayoi Kusama

b 1929

Self-Obliteration 1967

20:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6wnhLqJqVE

recent

http://vernissage.tv/blog/2011/11/07/yayoi-kusama-retrospective-at-centre-pompidou-paris/

Tyza Stewart

b 1990

Tyza’s work crosses boundaries through the construction of self-portraits that fail to fit into social norms. The juxtaposition of the young girlish Tyza’s face with sexually mature male bodies amongst Tyza’s various works has led to reactions. In Sydney in 2013 at the artfair Sydney Contemporary, 5 of Tyza’s work were removed. Sydney Contemporary cited that legal advisors had stated they would be in contravention of NSW crimes legislation.

http://tyzatyzatyza.tumblr.com/2013

Pussy Riot

formed 2011 in Moscow (11 members)

http://www.thefirstsuppersymposium.org/index.php/en/about-the-symposium

Pussy riot attacked at Sochi

http://www.smh.com.au/world/cossacks-attack-pussy-riot-in-sochi-with-whips-and-pepper-spray-20140220-hvd27.html

Mike Parr

b. 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljtZsmEHxT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7j4QUsnfl0

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Week 11: First Footprints

FIRST FOOTPRINTS

This four part documentary series explores the story of how people arrived and thrived on our continent. With startling new archaeological discoveries revealing how the first Australians adapted, migrated, fought and created in dramatically changing environments.

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firstfootprints/

http://www.kimberleyfoundation.org.au/uploads/41632/ufiles/First_Footprints_Press_Kit_-_S.pdf

Super Nomads: 50,000 To 30,000 Years Ago

he story of how people arrived and thrived on our continent. With startling new archaeological discoveries revealing how the first Australians adapted, migrated, fought and created in dramatically changing environments.

The Great Drought; 30,000 To 15,000 Years Ago

For thousands of years people lived with Australia's strange and ferocious mega fauna but all beasts went extinct during the last ice age. Temperatures were 6 degrees colder; it was dry and windy and lasted over 10,000 years.

The Great Flood: 18,000 To 5,000 Years Ago

From eighteen thousand years ago, melting polar ice caps began drowning 25% of Greater Australia. And we meet Narrabeen Man, found under a bus stop on Sydney's Northern Beaches.

The Biggest Estate: 9,000 Years Ago To 1788

9,000 years ago people in Australia were learning to manipulate available plants & animals to increase food resources. They transformed an entire continent into a fully sustainable estate, until outsiders arrived.

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Week 11: Reading

http://www.forumpermanente.org/en/journal/articles/contemporary-art-and-the-museum-in-the-global-age-1

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