Sin city challenges the limits of a medium, a huge blockbuster but also artisan in style. Comic book style but new and unique with the introduction of one colour, red. Creates look of pen and ink, labour and love. Rain, sketched in, creates damage, physical effects like that of old films, reflective physically of rain damage.
Inspired by a chain of references, things get muddy. With avoiding a direct link to one medium you get a set of elements.
Anthony Cairo - sculpture boundaries
Gary Webb - real objects blurred - internal logic of work of art - stacked and piled to lean - sprouting. Reflects biomorphic procedures of organic growth the objects are alive and spilling out, materiality and objectness - object responding to medium. So is the medium being challenged by the life the works have?
Manet- draws attention to the surface of the painting - Glenn Brown self consciously playing on art as flatness, the surface has presence!
Auerbach- 'the enemy' expressionist paintings - Brown thought bad painting was Auerbach because it wasn't flat, wasn't what painting was supposed to do.
Brown developed style where surface was painted to look like it was textured, when really it was completely flat- he is playing on the surface, experimenting with the medium as though it was something else.
Donald Judd - Minimalist , literal realisation of what Greenberg was looking for, but not what he wanted
Writing about Duchamp's work simply as sculpture, separating it from the ready-made, talking about the beautiful form of the bottle rack for example. This is interesting why should we have to look at it for what it is, cant we appreciate the form of a ready-made without relating it too anything political or social?
Constantin Brancusi - reducing sculpture form into something very pure. Still as sculpture obviously but to me this could even be a painting.
Stephan Balkenhol - The plinth, other than something just to lift the work, becomes part of the work, considering how this will affect the piece. Balkenhol carving the plinth and head as the same sculpture. Plinth is almost as important as the focus, can very easily change the piece. When displaying work I admit I am too careless about how it is displayed, I need to consider more things such as a plinth and also where it is shown, in a gallery space or not?
Richard Serra - the possibilities of sculptures physicality, thinking about where the floor meets the wall, rather than overlooking this important formal quality of a room, an immaterial gesture, involving the space it is in.
Robert Smithson, Spiral jetty - challenges what medium can be- the work is actually the film not the land work, the spiral jetty itself is a component made for the film. This is subverting the medium, deciding that the jetty is not a sculpture, even though it is something that was laborious to build.
Man with the movie camera , Vertov - the film shows the filming process and makes this part of the film, or rather doesn't stop filming...steps back and reveals , interrupts to expose. How could I translate this to my own practise... showing the process of art thinking, through something other than a sketchbook? But this works because it is raw and true, literally showing the process.
LOONEY TUNES - subverting the role of the artist and loosing control. I really liked the clip as its very relevant to me, I'm trying to control all my ideas, but maybe I need to loose control, loose control to someone else. Let someone else control my day? or maybe the art could just be letting someone control my piece, give myself as the art object. Although light-hearted I liked Daffy the Ducks frustration at all the changes, how things were not going to plan, the artists in control were making a mockery out of him on his own show. Removal of mouth for speech, removal of colour, trappping under black goo. All quite violent things. I want to create something like this! But how need to brainstorm this more.
CLOSE UP (I liked the joke on the close up)
Rosaline Kraus - everything as installation, like seeing contents of a teenagers bedroom.
Corey Archangel - use of gaming and the internet, but not introducing anything new?
Sophie Calle - ART JOURNALISM & ART OBJECT - social performance
Jeff Wall - light boxes - like billboards and adverts - narrative history
Overall I found this lecture very interesting, especially the clip from Looney tunes (see above) - constraint and control are things I need to place upon myself in some aspects but they are also things I need to let loose of, let loose my restriction at the moment to just ideas, these are things are want to experiment with. Black arts medium is something i have always been interested in, I have never worked with a medium in mind, as I tend to work through ideas and then create from this. Medium barely ever enters into my mind, which I find strange. Maybe this is something to explore itself... a lot of my ideas revolve around the mind which a lot of people would argue is imaterial , it is anti-matter, perhaps this is why my feelings towards medium are as they are, a reflection of the mind...
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