Week 6 - Uncreativity wrap and CLASS TASK!
What is UNCREATIVITY?!
Art, design and media have always been citational: works that reference other works and major concepts or tropes throughout history.
‘Uncreative’ work goes one step further—rather than cleverly referencing other material, it uses it largely unchanged or even sometimes entirely unchanged.
‘Uncreativity' in this context refers to the artistic practice of appropriating, copying, sampling, translating, displacing, borrowing, plundering and remixing.
Appropriation in art refers to the use of existing works, objects, images or texts with little or no physical transformation applied to them. In most cases of appropriation in the context of ‘Uncreativity', the original 'thing' remains unchanged and accessible as the original.
‘Uncreativity' as an artistic practice is the concept that the new work recontextualises the appropriated work. Meaning and discourse is created through this process of recontextualization.
Uncreative practices call into question the notion of authorship and the value of creativity and originality.
‘Uncreativity' brings important debates surrounding copyright, open source cultures, piracy and public commons into art and design discourses
Have a walk through the exhibition and enjoy the works! In pairs or groups of three - appropriate a work and re-situate it in a new context. The work might be a text work you now use as an script for a film… You might photograph part of a work and make a digital collage with an element of the work somewhere outside or elsewhere in the museum... You might record (sample) part of some audio and find a new context to play it or distribute it amongst your classmates somehow.
How can can you copy, borrow, steal something from this show to make it your own?
As per usual - post on tumblr with a statement as to how your work responds to this weeks theme of uncreativity :)
