Assignment
1000 words
Format: maximum, 2 typed, double-spaced pages; MLA or APA
Each question requires that you return to the lectures, videos, class reading assignments, - which it will expect you to reference in your essay - but each question is open ended so as to accommodate your own ideas/research on the issues addressed in the readings. In support of your own ideas about the readings, you will need to associate those ideas with the assigned works you're discussing in your essay questions AND include 2 or more references to text and/or supplemental references that are specific, relevant. (Include page #s for text citations and URLs for online sources.)
PART I
(Write at the beginning of your essay each artist's name, title of work, materials, date and style.)
• Compare Krzysztof Wodiczko "Hirshhorn Museum, Wash. D.C. 1988" with Christo and Jeanne Claude's "Running Fence, Sonoma/Marin County1972-76."
Collaborative relations between artists and audience have become familiar artistic practices in producing a work of public art. Compare and contrast these two works noting significant similarities or differences in subject or site as well as any factors that explain the artists' preferences (influences in the art world or encounter with the larger culture/s, politics, history, and/or society of the particular era or region from which it was produced).
Krzysztof Wodiczko: Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., 1988
Christo and Jeanne Claude: Running Fence, Sonoma/Marin County-1972-76
PART II
(Write at the beginning of your essay each artist's name, title of work, materials, date and style. ) Compare and contrast Clark's "Six Sensorial Masks," 1967 with Hamilton's "Malediction," 1991.
• Discuss the importance of each artist, of the particular work of art, the subject matter, the symbolism, its meaning, and the artist's intentions.
• You would want to compare and contrast significant features relating to subject and style, making sure to note any factors that explain the artists' preferences (influences in the art world or encounter with the larger culture/s, personal experiences or background).
Clark, Lygia. Six Sensorial Masks, 1967. Fabric masks, various colors and odors, with different mechanisms to affect hearing, vision, and smell.
Ann Hamilton performing Malediction, December 8 1991 - January 4, 1992 at the Louver Gallery, New York.
PART III
(Write at the beginning of your essay the artist's name, title of work, materials, date and style. )
• Discuss the importance of this artist, of this particular work of art and the impact of this work on future art practices. Provide a description of the formal elements of this work, the subject matter, the symbolism, its meaning and the artist's intentions. Discuss the use of media (television, radio, newspapers) during this performance. Explain how this work demonstrates feminist values within the objectives and goals of social practice art.
Suzanne Lacy, In Mourning and in Rage (December 13, 1977)
PART IV
• PART IV: Bruguera, Tania: Tatlin's Whisper #6 (Havana version) 2009
Discuss the importance of this artist, of this particular work of art and the political/social impact of this work. Provide a description of this work: the subject matter, the symbolism, its meaning and the artist's intentions.
1. What materials and media are used in this art work in order to create social change?
2. Is this work site specific and, if so, what is the importance of place in providing meaning?
3. How does the work reflect multiple perspectives?
4. #YoTambienExijo: A Restaging of Tania Bruguera's Tatlin's Whisper 6, 4/13/15 Describe the facts of Bruguera's arrest in December 2014 in Cuba.
Discuss the importance of this restaging of Bruguera's work in multiple locations across the world.
Discuss the specific critiques formed in this restaged 2015 work.
Bruguera, Tania: Tatlin's Whisper 6 (Havana, 2009)
PART V
PART V: (Write at the beginning of your essay each artist's name, title of work, materials, date
Compare and contrast Ai Weiwei's "Human Flow" (2017) project with Mona Hatoum's "Twelve Windows" (2012).
1. What materials and media are used in this art work in order to create social change?
2. Is this work site specific and, if so, what is the importance of place in providing meaning?
3. How does the work reflect multiple perspectives?
4. Does the work reflect or respond to oppositional movements, politics and/or social movements in another region? Or does it actually mix issues like these that are found in extremes elsewhere?
Ai Weiwei: "Human Flow" - 2018
Hatoum, Mona: "Twelve Windows" 2012-13.
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