28/02/2009
Art in the Interview seminar materials
Content
In this seminar we will look at how practitioners express their ideas and use the techniques of interviewing/answering questions to explore this communication.
Using interview/questions enables two ways in which you as a practitioner will learn to express your ideas and to enable others to understand them.
We can use questions and answers to enable us to express ourselves and by capturing this expression we can use the information to construct our statements, ideas, context, references, narratives, techniques, emotions, instructions, etc.
We should also be aware that you may be interviewed/asked questions so that someone else can write, talk, express understanding of your work, so it is also important that you express yourself so that someone else will understand what you want them to understand.
Observations
• For the first part we will look at some practitioners expressing themselves through interviews.
Eg. Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois, Thomas Hirschhorn, David Shrigley, John Cage, Douglas Coupland, Renny Remakers, Tracey Emin, David Lynch
• Case Study: My own work for Oak Trees and Fountains project at Drum Castle made use of the interview to gain information on the artists and work. We will look at the processes of capturing this information and how useful it was. My questions, to Jim Harold, Victoria Bernie.
Activity
Interviewing each other.
Decide on the questions (3) to ask about your practice and what its about, why are you creative,
In groups of 2/3, (interviewer, interviewee, note taker) take some time to interview each other and so compile some answers to the questions.
This information can then be used as a basis for a statement on your work and also a learning technique to understand and clarify what you are working on, development of ideas, conceptual rationale, articulation of creative process etc etc.
References
Diers, Michael, “Infinite Conversations” or the Interview as an Art Form, in Obrist, Hans Ulrich, Interviews volume 1, Milan: Charts; 2003.
See Oak Trees interview leaflets
http://freespace.virgin.net/iain.irving/Oak%20Trees%20website/index
http://www.hermannvaske.com
http://www.youtube.com/
BBC THREE documentary, Spin, Wednesday 23 November
BBC Arena Series 1994 interview of Louise Bourgeois by Nigel French
Further Reading and information:
Below is a selection of potential springboards for discussion – available in the library.
Weintraub, Linda, Making Contemporary Art, London: Thames and Hudson; 2004.
Contemporary Artists series, Phaidon Books
Most journals - MAP / Art Monthly / Frieze/ Arts Review etc
Online
Audio Arts - http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/audioarts/
Tate Shots - http://www.tate.org.uk/tateshots/issue17802/default.htm
Baltic - http://www.balticmill.com/podcasts/
InterView questions
Why are you creative?
What is your Practice?
What are you working on just now?
In this seminar we will look at how practitioners express their ideas and use the techniques of interviewing/answering questions to explore this communication.
Using interview/questions enables two ways in which you as a practitioner will learn to express your ideas and to enable others to understand them.
We can use questions and answers to enable us to express ourselves and by capturing this expression we can use the information to construct our statements, ideas, context, references, narratives, techniques, emotions, instructions, etc.
We should also be aware that you may be interviewed/asked questions so that someone else can write, talk, express understanding of your work, so it is also important that you express yourself so that someone else will understand what you want them to understand.
Observations
• For the first part we will look at some practitioners expressing themselves through interviews.
Eg. Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois, Thomas Hirschhorn, David Shrigley, John Cage, Douglas Coupland, Renny Remakers, Tracey Emin, David Lynch
• Case Study: My own work for Oak Trees and Fountains project at Drum Castle made use of the interview to gain information on the artists and work. We will look at the processes of capturing this information and how useful it was. My questions, to Jim Harold, Victoria Bernie.
Activity
Interviewing each other.
Decide on the questions (3) to ask about your practice and what its about, why are you creative,
In groups of 2/3, (interviewer, interviewee, note taker) take some time to interview each other and so compile some answers to the questions.
This information can then be used as a basis for a statement on your work and also a learning technique to understand and clarify what you are working on, development of ideas, conceptual rationale, articulation of creative process etc etc.
References
Diers, Michael, “Infinite Conversations” or the Interview as an Art Form, in Obrist, Hans Ulrich, Interviews volume 1, Milan: Charts; 2003.
See Oak Trees interview leaflets
http://freespace.virgin.net/iain.irving/Oak%20Trees%20website/index
http://www.hermannvaske.com
http://www.youtube.com/
BBC THREE documentary, Spin, Wednesday 23 November
BBC Arena Series 1994 interview of Louise Bourgeois by Nigel French
Further Reading and information:
Below is a selection of potential springboards for discussion – available in the library.
Weintraub, Linda, Making Contemporary Art, London: Thames and Hudson; 2004.
Contemporary Artists series, Phaidon Books
Most journals - MAP / Art Monthly / Frieze/ Arts Review etc
Online
Audio Arts - http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/audioarts/
Tate Shots - http://www.tate.org.uk/tateshots/issue17802/default.htm
Baltic - http://www.balticmill.com/podcasts/
InterView questions
Why are you creative?
What is your Practice?
What are you working on just now?
15/02/2009
14/02/2009
Alex Frost and his Format Wars
Alex Frost came to Gray's to do his talk at lunchtime on Thursday. It was good to see him again, I am a big fan of his work - materials, subject, delicacy, modernism, crafti-sm. I first saw his work accidentally at The Changing Room in Stirling , just by chance on my way to Glasgow a couple of years ago I dropped in to see the gallery and his work was just opening. Cool and confident, he talked about his past and present work, ideas of purity, banality of the everyday, symbols of modern life and that he'll be around in the North-East at The Glenfiddich Distillery artist in residency over the summer. Current favs the HD-DVD/Blu-ray wars panels.
Sorcha Dallas- Alex Frost pages
Sorcha Dallas- Alex Frost pages
13/02/2009
Student Materials
Student Reading assignment
This assignment is to encourage you to read around your subject and consider ideas, concepts, effect on art, design and culture that are being written and discussed, so that you are an informed practitioner. At this stage you should now becoming aware of the effect of art and design on our world, as you are the future practitioners. There is a lot of information out there, how do you find what you need to know.
For the next session, please read through the text, which you are given and consider in detail the following points.
Title:
Author:
6 keywords (not opinion):
What is the text about and what is discussed?
What have you learnt from it?
Select a quote from it.
This assignment is to encourage you to read around your subject and consider ideas, concepts, effect on art, design and culture that are being written and discussed, so that you are an informed practitioner. At this stage you should now becoming aware of the effect of art and design on our world, as you are the future practitioners. There is a lot of information out there, how do you find what you need to know.
For the next session, please read through the text, which you are given and consider in detail the following points.
Title:
Author:
6 keywords (not opinion):
What is the text about and what is discussed?
What have you learnt from it?
Select a quote from it.
07/02/2009
04/02/2009
Basquiat Painting
In 1985 the Fruitmarket held a Basquiat exhibition. The exhibition was all his new paintings on canvases, wooden panels and doors. The show was a coupe for the gallery. Basquiat came over to Edinburgh for the show, and while he was there he was asked to paint some paintings right there in the gallery. Four stretchers were bought in each approx 100cm x 60cm. He proceeded to get to work, using some photocopies of his drawings and squeezing full tubes of acrylic over the surfaces. He got it everywhere even up the office wall in his enthusiasm. He then went out to Jenners and got a full tartan suit made for him as he was in Scotland and had the cash. I missed the opening, I was meant to meet someone on the corner of Cockburn Street but they had already gone in and I missed the whole thing so we just went to the pub and I never ever saw him or met him. At the time my sister was running the Fruitmarket café and all week had been serving him up with various concoctions and choice home made product. He seemed to love the food and the attention, so in thanks he left one of the Fruitmarket-made paintings to her. The artist and his entourage moved on but the painting remained. She didn't really like it, not her thing. So it was left to the gallery to do with whatever. Time went on the gallery put on lots of shows I was involved in many. The directors changed and moved on, the gallery needed cash, there was yet another crisis. "Where's that Basquiat painting? Asked someone, " Isn't that now worth something now that he's dead? It should be but who would want to buy it? I'm sure there is a market for it, probably in the USA". So I was asked to package the thing up as it had been in one of the offices all this time. I got it down to the gallery store and started building a strongbox and packing for the painting to be shipped over to Chicago, there was someone who knew someone’s who might be interested. So it was crated and labelled to go, but before I did this and never saw it again, Brian wanted to be photographed with the painting, posing in his own imitable way, we had a bit of fun with that painting. Then off it went, labelled as posters, a gift, for customs - to save money. It was eventually sold at auction for something over £10,000.
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