readings!

tomorrow an epic conversation...

if you get lost in kracauer:
The article focuses on the views of culture critic Siegfried Kracauer on the dance troupe Tiller Girls in his book "The Mass Ornament." Kracauer associated the performances of the dancers to a fashion for their choreographed mass gymnastic presentations. It is stated that the dancer's choreography represents the rationality of a labor process in which a worker has become submissive to the logic of a machine. It also encouraged individuals not to focus behind the surface of things in order to see the fundamental substances of an epoch.


this too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIZeyndTBFc

Statements

Lurking notions, siphoning off, breathing in, short sightings and recollected moments of fearlessness. Threatened and in danger of attack. Perpetually tied to the body and the material, on the one hand, potential for transcendence on the other. What than is invulnerable? Not the body. Its extensions, its sensations, all wrapped up and presented. They speak in their own dialect, diverse and irreconcilable. But in another space adverse and pleasant, simple and complex are pushed together in singular anonymity. The myriad perceptions in space and time have their merit. But elsewhere they can be seen through, gone past and the bleached bone dust blown away.

Jessica/rewrite artist statement

I have questions about the universe, and the idea of life on a large scale and also a personal one. The fact that as humans we all have the same entry and exit point to this world is one that I find fascinating. There is so much that all of human-kind has in common (i.e. the same sky, same time, same feelings...) but we are so thoroughly different and unique. I think I make art to imagine the meaning of my existence, understanding the impossibility of this and the necessity of it. I think these thoughts involve questioning and investigating ideas that produce images.

artist's title: Angela Bulloch's "The Space that Time Forgot"
seriously I wish I had thought of this title.

Adam Rose Revised Statement

I make work that revolves around universal notions of land, ownership, permanence and home. This investigation comes from questions I have about the way in which society’s have claimed and marked their spaces and territories in the world. I make art because making work is the best way I have found to truly challenge my thinking and to ask some really hard questions of myself. I also try not to limit my work to a single medium, and to work in whichever field best suites a project I am envisioning. In this way I am able to best find questions and concerns that are not only of interest to me, but can be of concern to others as well.

artist title- Sophie Calle's "Take Care of Yourself"

please post your revised artist statement

please post your revised artist statement, i am down at saic early to go through them and only lucy has posted...

Revised artist statement and title - Lucy Baird

Revised Artist Statement:

I investigate cultural and visuals mores in my work. Photography is the means by which I initiate this investigation. I work in series, within which repetition is used as a tool to reveal. Photographs act as a means of cultural investigation rather than an ends in my work. They become a mode of perception and query.

Title:

I have always been fond of Bon Iver's first album title.

"for emma, forever ago"

laz websites

http://www.olafbreuning.com/

http://allyouknowistrue.net/

http://www.coryarcangel.com/

http://siberart.com/

http://www.alfredojaar.net/

http://petracortright.com/

we'll discuss these in the AM

see you tomorrow!