Contemporary Art Final FAH 222 WA

Bruguera, The Burden of Guilt, 1997-99

- Cuba -eat dirt to die rather to be under someone else's rule -lamb carcass -ate dirt 45 mins and drank salt water - guilt becoming christian -eat dirt to kill themselves to go back to earth with ancestors

Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled (Free/still), 2012

- recreation in MoMa -Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled (Free), 1992

Santiago Sierra, 250 cm line, 1999 Sierra, 160 cm line, 2000 (right).

-'Four prostitutes addicted to heroin were hired for the price of a shot of heroin to give their consent to be tattooed. Normally they charge 2,000 or 3,000 pesetas, between 15 and 17 dollars, for fellatio, while the price of a shot of heroin is around 12,000 pesetas, about 67 dollars.' -line up evenly -exploitative leave a mark -Making Art Politically -Spain

Botero, San Antonio Park, Medellin, Columbia

-2 doves -1 bombed intimidate his son -remade but kept old one

Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled (Free), 1992

-2 types of curry- 1 restaurant and 1 more traditional -exposing gallery it's an office -artist made and served -relations aesthetic: develop community but still small group that would've gone to gallery and no hard conversations -Thai in NYC

El Anatsui, Fresh and Fading Memories, 2007. Installed at the Venice Biennale.

-Africa -Kente cloth -abundance of alc -heavy ripped -uses a lot of assistance -most successful African Artist -alc bottle caps woven together -Venice biennial - didn't fix the rips -talent that can make metal look like fabric

Kester, Throne of Weapons, 2001

-Africa -after civil war abundance of guns -catholic bishop idea guns into tools -chair went everywhere inspiration conversation and unite -choose chair because connotations of power -not from Africa from soviet bloc transforming arms into tools

Yinka Shonibare, CBE, Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, 2010

-Africa -batik fabric on sails -contains 80 guns and 70 sails as it was when Nelson died -hobby attracts historical accuracy -message in a bottle-> time capsule

Hinkle, A gift from me to you, 2009

-Africa -girls holding hands topless -artist draws over them to cover their private parts -Protecting them a gift from me to you -Colonial photography

Romuald Hazoume, La bouche du roi, 1997-2005

-Africa - shaped as Thomas Clarkson, Depiction of a slave ship, 1789. -La Bouche actual slave location -gas masks -smells of tobacco because it is a dif commodity -gas cans -microphone in cans viewers implicated in work

Yinka Shonibare CBE, Scramble for Africa, 2003. 14 life-size fiberglass mannequins, 14 chairs, table, Dutch wax printed cotton

-Africa -colonization -natural resources -style of clothes victorian but fabric West African (Dutch wax printed) -headless mindless -installations on stage theatrical

Gordon Walters, Genealogy 5, 1971. Acrylic on canvas . Koru & Michael Parekowhai (Ngati Whakarongo), Kiss the Baby Goodbye, 1994. Powder-coated steel

-Aotearoa/New Zealand -1st one culture appropriation from indigenous meeting houses -2nd one is a response bringing it back in 3-D to architectual

The Barunga Statement, Various artists from Arnhem Land and central Australia. 1988. Ocher on composition board with collage of printed text on paper

-Australia -Call for return of land -surround by art -collaborative work -cross hatching -left side concept of dreaming: creation story kept secret among tribe-- an exchange sacred knowledge -right-- dots related to ancient rock art

Jimmy Midjaw Midjaw Three Dancers And Two Musicians: Corroboree Of Mimi, Spirits Of The Rocks, Minjilang (Croker Island), West Arnhem Land, Australia. Mid 20th century. Natural pigments on eucalyptus bark

-Australia -popular bark painting Aberiginal art -dreaming story -bark easily transportable

Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, Straightening the Spears, 1999. Synthetic polymer on canvas.

-Australia -poles

Doris Salcedo, Atrabiliarios, 1993

-Columbia -shoes in wall covering frosted and stitched around--speaking to memory itself "foggy" - sutures (stitches) resemble physical violence

Bruguera, Tatlin's Whisper #5, 2009

-Cuba -testing limits -escorted by 2 actors dressed in uniform to podium and speak about anything -provoke - last one night at the Havana Biennial - white dove place on speak like Castro and dove landing on him

Milan Knizak and Aktual, Letters to the Population, 1960s

-Eastern Bloc -send mail random ppl with instructions -fall in love, commit suicide -international fluxus like grapefruit

M.F. Husain, Three Dynasties, 2008-2011. Triptych

-India -commissioned by rich Indian woman -3 dynasties -1525-1807 mughal left who encouraged art -central ancient Indian civilization adapted Buddhism -right.... British invasion?

Newsha Tavakolian, Listen, Tehran, Iran, 2010

-Iran - singing ban -women posing as singing in photo -eyes closed -women are not allowed to singing

Abbas, Young woman stands behind men during anti - Shah demonstration. Tehran, Iran. 1978 & Abbas, A woman, believed to be a supporter of the Shah is mobbed by a revolutionary crowd. Tehran, Iran. January 25, 1979

-Iran -anti-shah -women role in society changing -Photos of revolution -Surveillance culture -Women role changes less rights

Shirin Neshat, Faceless (Left) and Rebellious Silence (Right), from Women of Allah, 1994. Chador

-Iran -farsi women poetry -weapons -chador -gaze

Mona Hatoum, Measures of Distance, 1988 . 15 minute video

-Iran -mom in shower -memories are foggy her display is foggy - mom ok with being naked father pissed when he walks in

Abbas, Studying at Tehran University, 1977.White Revolution & Abbas, Hair Salon in Tehran, 1977

-Iran -photos before revolution -women rules less strict

Shirin Neshat , Fervor, 2000. Two-channel video.

-Iran -split screen -"love story" -bond of certain roles

Shirin Neshat , Turbulent, 1997. Two-channel video. 9 minutes, 28 seconds.

-Iran -split screen -left man singing with words and audience -right women singing with noise not allowed to sing in public -men stop to watch her

Andy Warhol, Farah Diba Pahlavi, 1977

-Iran -wife of shah -glamorous

Thomas Hirschorn, Bataille Monument, Kassel, Germany, 2002.

-Making Art Politically -Germany -antimonument won't last -biblioteca of bataille -hangout space -communities like it

Barrada, Advertisement Light box, ferry port transit area, Tangier, 2003.

-Moroccan and spain -Tangier -strait of gibraltar -girls space of desire -Africa

Shigeyuki Kihara, Ulugali'i Samoa: Samoan Couple, 2004-2005.

-New Zealand -recreating -creating a scene that is not authentic - Samoan men sitting seen as weak -models both her just digitally editted so its a play on the view

Lisa Reihana, In pursuit of Venus [infected], 2015-17.

-New Zealand -Venice biennial -film -captain cook inspired by Les Sauvages de la Pacifique (capt cook wallpaper)/ not historically correct the plants incorrect and clothing like ancient greece -Oceania -models from islands- get voice back -captain cook as a women

Yuki Kihara, Performer: Ali Korey Vaifale in Culture for Sale. City Gallery, Wellington, 21 February 2014

-New Zealand -worlds fair performers -performance uncomfortable for money because the performers are just sharing culture -culture as a commodity

Yue Minjun, Gweong-gweong, 1993. Oil on canvas.

-Onomatopoeia -women in back parade -men horizontal like bombs drop

Jacir, Munir, Where we come from, 2001-03

-Palestinian conflict -making art politically -fulfill requests from palestinians -pairing of text

Mutu, detail of Karo Woman, 2006

-Porn photos -And ethnographic photos of "Photo Arc" book-- anthropological -point of these sources is to pleasure the audience and not the subject --give subjects pleasure for themself aren't even loking at audience

Ulay and Abramovic

-Relation in Time, 1977 >tying hair together -Breathing In/Breathing Out, 1977 > breathing in each other's mouth until someone passes out -Imponderabilia, 1977 > naked in doorway leading into a museum -exploring human duration

Boris Mikhailov, Case History, 1997

-Ukrania -exploitative argument exposing homeless but they got to pose how they wanted (collaborative) as a counter argument -photos large over life sized -homelessness after the collapse -go up to these people pay them and get a warm meal -aware of the camera/ performative

eteam, Second Life Dumpster, 2007

-When we heard about Second Life for the first time, we imagined it to be a kind of utopia, where people would create things that are impossible to even think of in the Real World. But, even after SL replaced our first life for a while, we could not permeate the top layer. There is no shovel around to dig that ground, no way to go beyond the surface. Maybe that's why we are currently investigating the possibilities of our SL land as a public dumpster -- to fill the place with some kind of history by leaving traces, to introduce the decay script.

Fang Lijun, Series 2, Number 2, 1992. Oil on canvas

-after tiananmen square disaster -irony to deal with frustration -scream

Barrada, Marks left by a football, Tangier, 2002

-anger stuck in one place -photo -Africa -wall of lazy...

Zina Saro-Wiwa, Sarogua Mourning, 2011. Single channel video, 11 mins 37 secs. MOSOP

-art and ecology -Film mourns her father that was executed

Joseph Beuys, 7,000 Oaks , 1982-87, Kassel & Joseph Beuys and Dia, 7,000 Oaks , 1988-present, New York City and the recreation Eva and Franco Mattes, 7,000 Oaks, 2007

-art and ecology -Beuys proposed a plan to plant 7000 oaks throughout the city of Kassel, each paired with a basalt stone. The 7000 stones were piled up on the lawn in front of the Museum Fridericianum with the idea that the pile would shrink every time a tree was planted. The project, seen locally as a gesture towards green urban renewal, took five years to complete and has spread to other cities around the world. - & recreation of that work somewhere else--Piece of oak take back from the nazis

Hans Haacke, Rhine Water, Purification Plant, 1972. Glass and acrylic containers, pump, polluted Rhine water, tubing, filters, chemicals and goldfish.

-art and ecology -Systems -Glass and acrylic containers, pump, polluted Rhine water, tubing, filters, chemicals, goldfish, drainage to garden.Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, 1972 -German

Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Touch Sanitation Performance, 1977-80

-art and ecology -maintenance work -her role as the artist in residence at New York City's Department of Sanitation (DSNY). Ukeles has held the official position for 39 years, though it's never been paid. Of course, when the department hired her in 1978, the city was on the brink of bankruptcy, and sanitation workers ("sanmen," for short) were between strikes; the department was not in a position to offer her money. Yet the contradiction of Ukeles's decades-long, authorized, uncompensated role cuts to the heart of the complications underlying her work. -For the performance, Ukeles spent 11 months shaking hands with and thanking New York City's sanmen — all 8,500 of them. She methodically mapped out her routes (which she called "sweeps"), spending 8- or 16-hour days visiting sanitation crews in different locales, shadowing workers, interviewing them, delivering speeches about her own work and the value of theirs. "Thank you for keeping New York City alive!" she told every one of them

Agnes Denes, Wheatfield - A Confrontation, Battery Park Landfill, downtown Manhattan, summer 1982. Two acres of wheat planted and harvested

-art and ecology -temporary -manhattan -Two acres of wheat planted and harvested by the artist on the Battery Park landfill, Manhattan, Summer 1982. After months of preparations, in May 1982, a 2-acre wheat field was planted on a landfill in lower Manhattan, two blocks from Wall Street and the World Trade Center, facing the Statue of Liberty.

Kusama, Infinity Mirror Room - Phalli's Field, 1965

-artist in the photo- center and part of work -sewed red pocka dots -mirrors

Marta Minujin, The Parthenon of Books (Homage to Democracy), Argentina, 1983 and Germany, 2017. Dirty War

-books banned from Dirty War -shape of the parthenon sign of democracy and freedom -gave borrowed books back -need books for individualized thinking/ creating -100,00 books

Thomas Hirschorn, Gramsci Monument, 2013. DIA

-bronx -making art politically -Relation antagonism deal with issues work it out -Temporary -not relation aesthetics like curry gallery -urgency: temporary wouldn't have the same energy

Mendieta, Esculturas Rupestres or Rupestrian Sculptures, 1981

-compare to spiral jetty both natural materials - but dif b/c more temporary and small scale -operation peter pan Cuba/ first artist brought back to Cuba-- this is the return -cave birthing origin story -inspired siluetas

Sanja Ivekovic, Personal Cuts, 1982. 3 minutes, 43 seconds

-cut in the film and cuts to propaganda (parade) film -cut stockings on her face -she's interpreting

Ilya Kabakov, The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Apartment, 1985

-encompassing environments --jeff wall inspo -set flew into space -space race -mocking -soviet dream to go into space

Jitish Kallat, Public Notice, 2003, Burnt adhesive on acrylic mirror, wood, and stainless-steel frames. 78 x 54 x 6"

-famous speech prime minister repeated to abstraction -independence from Britain -poverty and ignorance - Indian -burn into mirrors emphasize reflection

Ai Wei Wei, Snake Ceiling, 2013

-government refused to take responsibility of the collapse building that killed children -campaign on twitter to find names -3 hrs 41 mins to read names -backpack as snake

Ai Weiwei, Sunflower Seeds, Tate Modern, London, 2011

-interactive exhibition - got to touch the sunflower seeds -chose a town for history of porcelain -gave ppl a job - 1600 ppl worked on it 100 mil seeds

Yue Minjun, Execution, 1995. Oil on canvas.

-laughing as a form of protest -inspired by Goya 3rd of May -tiananmen square disaster -irony to deal with frustration

Yael Bartana, Summer Camp, 2007. Two-channel video and sound installation, 12 minutes. ICAHD

-making art politically -Two channel video and sound installation -shows the activities of "The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions" (ICAHD); their actions consist amongst others of rebuilding Palestinian houses in the occupied territories. In the summer of 2006 Bartana filmed a group of ICAHD volunteers consisting of Palestinians, Israeli and various other nationalities

Salcedo, Noviembre 6 y 7, 2002. M-19. Columbian Truth Commission on the Palace of Justice.

-memoralized life lost in hostage -chairs represent the bodies -chair empty dinner table seat/ where you rest -collective -temporary compared to other memorialized - stayed up 53 hours same duration -Columbia -seventeenth anniversary of the violent seizing of the Supreme Court, Bogotá

Carlos Alonso, Nora Asian, Mireya Baglietto, Remo Bianchedi, Leon Ferrari, Rosana Fuertes, Carlos Gorrarena, Adolfo Nigro, Luis Felipe, Noe, Juan Carlos Romero and Marcia Schvartz, Identity, 1998.

-missing people in Columbia from dirty war -connect scope of ppl -add visual component to missing things -photos of married mirror in between mirror in between potentially find parents orphans

Malick Sidibe, Regardez-moi!, 1962 & Malick Sidibe, Nuit de Noel, 1963

-new independence Mali (Africa -young party life -photos

Kusama, No. F, 1959, oil on canvas

-obsession with dots -mental health -net moving -all over painting -turpentine uses knuckles

Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Death of a Chicken), 1972

-operation peter pan Cuba -santeria (combo of religions) blood sacrifice -out of memory not practicing impression of religion as a kid -killed chicken naked blood splatter all over

Mendieta, Burial Pyramid, 1974

-operation peter pan Cuba/ first artist brought back to Cuba -video -body in it but no audience -rocks on her remove them survival -terrifying but liberates herself -mexican story of creation of the world

Rashid Rana, Veil VI, 2007.

-pakistanian artist -covered women with naked wome -break stereotype no binary all people involved can be covered but also have sexuality

Fernando Botero, Massacre in Colombia, 1999. La Violencia

-peasants being shot -doesn't seem violent at first -Colombia -boterismo in violent scene jarring/ juxtapose-- makes it easier to look at -boterismo rounded ppl distinct style/ silly proportions -civillian clothes

Lalla Essaydi, Converging Territories #25 and #30, 2004.

-photo -Isolation -Pharsee script all over them giving a voice -calligraphy not allowed for women -morocco Africa -depict women strict laws isolated for punishment

Nicolas Guagnini, 30,000, 1999-2009. Desaparecidos

-portraot of father that went missing -memory crumbles/ fades -30,000 individual concrete plaques. 20,000 are incised with the names and the age, where known, of the 'desaparecidos'.

Raqs Media Collective, Coronation Park, Central Pavilion, All the World's Futures, Giardini, Venice Biennale, 2015

-power imperial authority ppl in power anxities -all rulers fail/ die inevitable -incomplete statues -fiberglass -India -unfinished statue ambigous

Tania Bruguera, Tribute to Ana Mendieta, 1986-96

-recreating Mendieta's works -in honor/ but asked to stop by Mendieta foundation - burned all evidence in this as response to request

Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Untitled (Awelye), 1990s. Synthetic polymer on canvas.

-women dream time story -Australia -location based -blue dots are the water

Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija's artworks, such as Untitled (Free), 1992, where he cooked and served Thai dishes for visitors, is a more contemporary example of Allan Kaprow's desire to blur the distinctions between ________ and __________

ART and LIFE

Sanja Ivekovic, Triangle, May 19, 1979

The action takes place on the day of the President Tito's visit to the city, and develops as intercommunication between three persons: 1. A person on the roof of a tall building across the street of my apartment; 2. Myself, on the balcony; 3. A policeman in the street in the front of the house. Due to the cement construction of the balcony, only the person on the roof can actually see me and follow the action. My assumption is that this person has binoculars and a walkie-talkie apparatus. I notice that the policeman in the street also has a walkie-talkie. The action begins when I walk out onto the balcony and sit on a chair. I sip whiskey, read a book, and make gestures as if I perform masturbation. After a period of time, the policeman rings my doorbell and orders the 'persons and objects are to be removed from the balcony.' -censorship

China d. 2000-present

a. Internationalism, infrastructure, remodernization

Many artists in the South and Central America chapter dealt with themes of:

a. Memory and loss

The author of this week's article, Kanitra Fletcher discusses the 1990 book, Women of the African Ark, by Carol Beckwith and photographer Angela Fisher. Fletcher argues that, despite their intentions, their project ultimately, "perpetuates the commodification of black African women," specifically through the publication and sale of images of the women on:

a. Postcards and calendars

Japanese contemporary artist and curator Takashi Murakami has argued that a distinctively Japanese style he calls _______________ distinguishes Japanese art from the West in many ways. The style is identifiable by its preference for shallow spaces and schematic characters in a supernatural realm.

a. Superflat

Art by indigenous people in Australia has become the country's most prominent and representative form of visual expression

a. TRUE

Even though a lot of artists from West Asia are now in exile, their artwork often still comments upon their country of origin

a. TRUE

Following the wars of independence in the mid-twentieth century, commercial and art photography has been popular throughout Africa.

a. TRUE

It is common for contemporary Russian artists to work in groups or associations.

a. TRUE

Modern and contemporary Aboriginal art sold on the art market today is not made for secret ceremonial purposes, although it may occasionally be used in them.

a. TRUE

Nearly all of the predominant international art styles of the 1960s and 1970s, including Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art - were taken up by contemporary Indian artists.

a. TRUE

In his interview with Anthony Downey, Shonibare states that his work has always used a ______ language

a. Theatrical

Aboriginal art made on ______________, with figures, abstract shapes, and cross-hatched strokes, were portable and popular with nineteenth-century British soldiers, travelers, and missionaries and are still made for those outside of indigenous communities today.

b. Bark

Artist Yinka Shonibare frequently uses fabric called ______ or Dutch Wax printed cotton which is manufactured in Europe, popular in West Africa and of Indonesian and Chinese origins.

b. Batik

Feminist critique and performance art was very popular and prominent in South and Central America in the 1960s and 1970s

b. FALSE

Paintings by Fernando Botero such as Massacre in Columbia 1999 deal with fictional fantastical narratives

b. FALSE

Since the early 2000s, contemporary Chinese art has only really seen regional exhibitions and popularity within east Asia and not recognition on a global scale.

b. FALSE

There are not contemporary women artists working in photography in the Islamic countries of North Africa, such as Morocco

b. FALSE

Video and multi-media artwork is not often done by women artists in West Asia

b. FALSE

The most challenging medium for the Chinese authorities and the broader public to accept was:

b. Performance Art

In his article, "Desire in Diaspora: Emily Jacir," TJ Demos discusses work Emily Jacir makes about which political conflict?

b. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict

China b. 1985-1989

b. The New Wave or Avant-Garde Moment

Aboriginal artists working in bigger cities and towns today are largely concerned with:

c. Addressing racial conflict and reconciliation in various media

Artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle draws on top of images from:

c. Colonial-era postcards of nude West African girls and women

Artist El Anatsui uses _______ as the main material in his hanging sculptures

c. Liquor bottle tops

Guillermo Kucita's installation Untitled from 1992 consists of beds stripped to their mattresses with ___________ painted across their surfaces.

c. Maps

During the era of repression, exile, and protest following the violent response of the Chinese government to the protestors in Tiananmen Square, the most pervasive reaction on the part of artists who remained in China was to retreat to a mood of:

c. Parody and irony

China c. 1990-1999

c. Repression, Exile, Protest

What was the prevailing official aesthetic in Russia from 1934 until the 1980s?

c. Socialist Realism

How did the Cultural Revolution end in China?

c. The death of Mao Zedong

Russian artists and institutions, for the most part, did not connect with the international art world in meaningful and regular ways until the late:

d. 1990s

Artist Wangechi Mutu re-combines images of black African and African American women from:

d. A (ethnographic books) and B (pornographic images)

Iranian artist Shirin Neshat works largely in:

d. Film and photography

In his article, "Desire in Diaspora: Emily Jacir," TJ Demos focuses on all of the following themes in Jacir's art EXCEPT:

d. Photos and prints

China a. 1976-1984

d. Post-Cultural Revolution

Boris Mikhailov's photographic series Case History records the lives of the:

d. The Ukrainian homeless

Several artworks in the South and Central America chapter including the image of an installation with photographs of couples interspersed with mirrors addressed the problem of ________ during the authoritarian regimes.

d. missing persons

Marina Abramovic, Rhythm 10, 1973, performance, 1 hour

the Slavic knife game, called "five finger fillet" in which the player places their palm facing down on the table, then proceeds to attempt to stab a knife back and forth between their fingers at an increasing speed. The game holds a real risk of bloodshed and serious injury. Abramović, in her adaption of the game, increased risk by introducing a selection of twenty different knives of various sizes and shapes. Two tape recorders sat on the floor next to her, recording the rhythms of the knives. In this piece, once Abramović had inflicted ten wounds on herself, she stopped then returned to the knives and attempted to replicate the exact movements and cuts she'd inflicted the first time. The performance was not over until Abramović had used every single knife twice. -czech -performance piece documented with photography -surveillance state -requires audience participation without their knowledge -illicit a responce