RELATIONAL AESTHETICS TASK
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Paula Allen Gallery, New York
Artist Rirkit Tiravanija organised a dinner in a collector’s home, and leaves him all the ingredients to make a Thai soup. This work extended into a multitude of different spaces; albeit particularly aimed at traditional exhibition spaces.
Tiravanija describes the first instance of this participatory art practice: he had used a recipe from a western recipe book which included the ingredient ketchup. Tiravanija explains that this is a commentary on colonial history and the Western Gaze on the world and a the centre; or a point of reference.
https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-17866000/philippe-parreno
Philippe Parreno invited a few people to pursue their favourite hobbies on May Day, on a factory assembly line. “For his recent project, Philippe Parreno asked his dealers to invite friends and acquaintances to spend all of May Day working in the gallery. The room contained various tools: projectors, a screen, an ironing board and an iron, pieces of fabric and a sewing machine, a large quantity of small T-shirts, electrical materials, two video cameras, two circular tables, and a series of plush teddy bears. The artist asked those present to complete certain tasks, such as stamping the words "My first secret, on the small T-shirts and putting these shirts on the teddy bears, or making a gigantic T-shirt in which up to five people could fit, while videotaping the activities of all the participants. The activities ceased at the end of the day. In a final touch, three days later, the windows were sealed with black cardboard for the duration of the exhibition.
This first phase of the collective labor, which consisted of actually constructing the work shown in the gallery, was followed by the reception phase, during which the public could enter the darkened room to view the videotape of the activities, the Teddy Bears pieced on the tables, and the large T-shirt stretched cut and hung on a clothesline. Because it was designed in this way, Parreno's project also contained elements of the unexpected, which became integral to his piece. The teddy bears turned out to be stuffed animals of the "My First Secret Teddy Bear" variety, which are designed to record the voices of the children who speak to them, a recording that can be accessed by depressing one of the bears, paws. But in this case, the teddy bears played back fragments of conversations and background noise that had inadvertently been taped by the Korean workers who had manufactured them.”
Artist Vanessa Beecroft dressed some 20 women in the same way, complete with a red wig, and the visitor merely gets a glimpse of them through the doorway.
“The child of a British father and an Italian mother, Beecroft was raised by her mother after her parents divorced when she was three. As an atheist, radical and single mother, her mother was treated as an outsider in a small Italian town full of faithful Catholics. Suffering from an obsession with food, Beecroft kept a diary of everything she ate for 10 years until 1993. That was what her first performance “VB1” in Milan in 1993 was about. She placed her food diary in the middle of a gallery and had 30 women friends from art college and girls found on the streets of Milan circle around it, dressed in her own clothes.”
Gagosian Gallery (London)
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2007/02/27/2007022761021.html (text)
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~djbromle/modern-art/02/Life-and-Art-of-Vanessa-Beecroft/index.htm (image)
Artist Maurizio Cattelan feeds rats on “Bel paese” cheese and sells them as multiples or exhibits recently robbed safes.
I found my love in Portofino
(Cheese, rats, plexiglass)
60 x 160 x 150cm - L'Hiver de l'Amour / The Winter of Love , P.S.1 Museum, New York
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5. JES BRINCH AND HENRIK PLENGE JACOBSEN
As a collaboration, these artists installed an upturned bus that causes a rival riot in the city.
Jes Brinch and Henrik Plenge Jakobsen
Wonderful Copenhagen, Temporary public art project, Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1994
“Note: The work was made for a summer festival for art in public spaces in 1994 called Art in the City and arranged by the Municipality of Copenhagen and the tourist organisation Wonderful Copenhagen. The work consisted of 18 cars, one caravan, and a public bus placed on Kongens Nytorv, which is traditionally considered to be Copenhagen's most beautiful square because of its classical architecture – the Royal Theatre and the Royal Danish Academy of Art. The exhibition was scheduled to run for three months but it was only on display for four days, from June 15 to June 21. The work was placed on a parking lot in front of Hotel D´Angleterre, a former parking area that had been recreated especially for this event. The work was meant to give the impression that a mad crowd had gone berserk and smashed a public parking lot. Therefore the cars had been worked over with heavy steel tubes. One of the cars had been pushed over onto its side, another was turned upside down, others were still standing on all four wheels. The work included a caravan that had been totally destroyed. The most conspicuous element of the project was the city bus, number 31, which was sited to give the impression that it had been dragged from the nearest bus stop, and overturned during the riot.”
http://www.henrikplengejakobsen.net/sider/works/99_92/parking.html (text)
https://artmap.com/henrikplengejakobsen#_l4x6b (image)
Artist Christine Hill worked as check-out assistant in a supermarket, organises a weekly gym workshop in a gallery.
Organizational Venture + Walking Tour Agency New York. Produced by Public Art Fund in collaboration with Deitch Projects.
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Recreates the chemical formula of molecules secreted by the human brain when in love, builds an inflatable yacht, and breeds chaffinches with the aim of teaching them a new song.
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Artist Noritoshi Hirakawa puts small ad in a newspaper to find a girl to take part in his show.
Black and white photograph mounted on card, framed, signed and numbered 1/4
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Summons people to a casting session, makes a TV transmitter available to the public, and puts a photograph of labourers at work on view a few yards from the building site.
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