“A child can teach an adult three things:
to be happy for no reason,
to
always be busy with something,
and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires."
-Paulo Coelho
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Ai Weiwei...again...
especially because I think someone who was going to do some research might not have gotten around to it yet...
Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995). Middle view of a triptych of gelatin silver prints, each print 49 5/8” x
39 1/4”. Courtesy private collection, USA.
(Making of) Colored Vases (2006). Single channel video, 13 minutes, 09
seconds. Courtesy Ai Weiwei, Beijing.
Colored Vases (2006) Vases from the Neolithic age (5000 - 3000 BCE) and
industrial paint; between 10” x diameter 9” and 14 1/2” x diameter 9
1/2”. Courtesy AW Asia collection, New York.
links to more information:
Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn via Daily Serving
Ai Weiwei via PBS
more on Sunflower Seeds
more via the guardian
first assignment
dear future students,
to begin with, I apologize for giving you an assignment before we have even met.
I know this may come off as overkill or as me being overeager or mostly as the beginning of me asking more of you than you expected (or wanted). however, in addition to being a pain in your ass, know that the result of me thinking of you this far in advance will actually be to your benefit.
I've been thinking a lot lately about how I want to be tough on you. I want to push you beyond what you believe you are capable of. I consider my experience as a student often, and teachers that have made me happy and teachers that have made me angry are one thing. But teachers who have truly improved my work and my life...those are most often the teachers who have challenged and demanded and expected a lot from me. Therefore, be prepared for me to be rather demanding of you...because I am confident that you can produce, create, and overall be much more.
With that, here is your first assignment:
Within the next week, raise a critical brouhaha over a work of art we discuss in class. Remember to think critically...a passionate argument means little if it is not supported by thorough planning and carefully chosen evidence. You are encouraged to gather your support from the work itself, ideas discussed in class, as well as ideas and opinions from sources found elsewhere.
Your chosen evidence should inform and support your own arguments...do not simply present the arguments of others. Take a stance, make a statement, figure out what the hell a 'brouhaha' is and raise one.
to begin with, I apologize for giving you an assignment before we have even met.
I know this may come off as overkill or as me being overeager or mostly as the beginning of me asking more of you than you expected (or wanted). however, in addition to being a pain in your ass, know that the result of me thinking of you this far in advance will actually be to your benefit.
I've been thinking a lot lately about how I want to be tough on you. I want to push you beyond what you believe you are capable of. I consider my experience as a student often, and teachers that have made me happy and teachers that have made me angry are one thing. But teachers who have truly improved my work and my life...those are most often the teachers who have challenged and demanded and expected a lot from me. Therefore, be prepared for me to be rather demanding of you...because I am confident that you can produce, create, and overall be much more.
With that, here is your first assignment:
Within the next week, raise a critical brouhaha over a work of art we discuss in class. Remember to think critically...a passionate argument means little if it is not supported by thorough planning and carefully chosen evidence. You are encouraged to gather your support from the work itself, ideas discussed in class, as well as ideas and opinions from sources found elsewhere.
Your chosen evidence should inform and support your own arguments...do not simply present the arguments of others. Take a stance, make a statement, figure out what the hell a 'brouhaha' is and raise one.
Monday, February 20, 2012
increasingly convinced
i have become increasingly convinced that to create, you must look. you must observe, you must experience, you must reflect, you must use your eyes and your mind and your intuition
at the same time.
at the same time.
Sean Avery
Feeple (male) - mixed media
15 x 15 x 15cm
see more of his work here
Sunday, February 19, 2012
nick cave
"what makes people happy?
what makes them step outside of their day to day existence and
be light...within a moment..."
I'm terribly interested in the unexpected part of art, the unexpected to the artist in which even he or she was not planning on a particular outcome...it is as if the work itself has a plan & an intent & a natural way of being - a skin, a sense of being...in which it feels most comfortable...
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