Art Section 4 & 5 Flashcards
What two things contributed to the understanding that ecosystems were understood through robust systems theories derived from new computing technologies?
The conclusion of World War 2 and the rise of the field of cybernetics.
What influential piece of art criticism did Jack Burnham publish in 1968?
Systems Esthetics
Where did Helen and Newton Harrison live from 1957 to 1960?
Florence, Italy
What did Helen Mayer Harrison study?
English and education
What did Newton Harrison study?
Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
When did Newton Harrison begin collaborating with other artists?
The late 1960’s
Why were the Harrisons important in contemporary eco art?
They were vital in establishing the activist engagement and informed interdisciplinarity of much of the contemporary eco art produced in the last half century, the Harrisons were true pioneers.
Which artists made ‘Making Earth’?
Helen and Newton Harrison
Where was ‘Shrimp Farm, Survival Piece #2’ staged at?
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
What causes the reddish hue in the water around Spiral Jetty?
Carotene produced by algae due to high salt levels.
?What was a key outcome of the Harrisons’ Shrimp Farm exhibition?
An actual harvest of shrimp from the ponds
What crab species did the Harrisons cultivate in The Lagoon Cycle?
Scylla serrata, or mud crab
How did the Harrisons simulate monsoon conditions for the crabs?
By decreasing salinity and increasing available food.
How did the duration of The Lagoon Cycle differ from previous works
It was not limited to a predetermined period and was ongoing.
What unique narrative technique did the Harrisons use in The Lagoon Cycle?
An oblique dialogue between a Lagoon maker and a Witness.
What do the seven panels in The Lagoon Cycle incorporate?
Text, maps, and cut photo-collage
What aspect did the first three panels of The Lagoon Cycle explore
The transition from indoor tanks to outdoor environments.
What bold proposal was made regarding the Salton Sea?
To regulate salinity, herbicide, and pesticide levels by connecting it to the Gulf of California.
The Creator of “Rhine Water Purification Plant (1972) was created by Hans Haacke. What were the two places he lived in and what years did he start living there. (Hint: One is his birth place)
He was Born in Cologne Germany in 1936, and has been based in New York City, since 1965
“Rhine Water Purification Plant (1972)” is a site-based installation, where is it located? (Be Specific)
Museum Haus Lange, in Krefeild, Germany
What does Hans Haacke’s creation “Rhine Water Purification Plant (1972)” epitomize?
Haackle’s engagement with different kinds of systems, this includes economic and environmental
Haacke’s creation “Rhine Water Purification Plant (1972) was humorously called a “purification plant”. What are the 2 features of the piece that was mentioned?
- The installation was much smaller than a plant 2. It functionally cleaned polluted water from Rhine River
Explain the Process that Haacke’s “Rhine Water Purification Plant (1972)” went through to clean water.
Water from Rhine’s River was pumped into Gallery Space, then it was purified by having the water pass through basins treated with Chemicals and over the top filters (composed of Charcoal and Sand). The Clean water pilled a rectangular Plexiglas prism on floor.
Haacke extended a preceding works that incorporated both Real-Time water cycles and ecological concerns. This was because of his “Rhine Water Purification Plant (1972)”. Around 1962 what was the movement Haacke started experimenting with?
The Movement of water within Plexiglas containers, the best known being “Condensation Cube (1963-65)” and another well known work was “Wave (1965)”
What was Haacke’s work “Wave (1965)”?
A rectangular prism suspended from the ceiling that swings in subtle variation with air currents in the room and movement of liquid within the box.
Hans Haacke described art objects and conditions of life within its environment as a continuous system. In the quote given, he refers to Kinetic Artwork as a ‘Sculpture’. What was the first thing he said about Kinetic Art work? (Hint: has something to do with how it should/shouldn’t be referred to.)
“A ‘sculpture’ that physically reacts to its environment and/or affects its surroundings is no longer to be regarded as an object.”
What group was the creator of “Phine Water Purifcation Plant (1972) mainly associated with in Eroupe?
“Zero Group” which was formed in Dusseldorf in 1957. They were known for using technologies to create moving artwork.
The Zero group, associated with Hans Haacke & his artwork “Rhine water purification plant’ was known to create ___ artworks.
Kinetic, or moving
In which city & country is ‘Rhine Water Purification plant’ located?
Krenfeld, Germany
When was ‘Rhine Water Purification plant’ made? And by Who?
1972 by Hans Haacke
The artwork ‘Rhine Water purification plant’ was an actual working water purifier, meaning that it did what?
Purified water. turned muddy water from the Rhine river into clean, purified water
Haacke has made other kinetic artworks beside the purification plant. one of the more famous ones is called _____, in which a small amount of water in the cube did what?
“Condensation Cube” The small amount of water evaporated & condensated back down
In 1969, Cornell University invited “Hans Haacke’s to make 2 artworks. What where they called?
Grass Grows & Ice Rope
In 1971, Hans Haacke made an artwork titled “Shapolsky” that was removed from the museum 6 weeks before it opened. What was the artwork about?
146 apartments in New York, detailing New York Biggest Slumlords.
The “Artwork” ‘MoMA Poll’ By Hans Haacke employs watches to vote “yes” or “no” to a question about…?
New York’s then governor. his Southeast Asian policies. & the relation between the museum & US politics
Hans Haacke’s artworks employ nature to help make it. However nature isn’t always controllable in that matter. One failed artworks was entitled “Ice Rope” where…
He intended water from the waterfall to fall on & freeze the rope. Unfortunately it didn’t work
Where was Nancy Holt born?
Nancy Holt (1938–2014) was born in Worcester,
Massachusetts.
Where was Nancy Holt raised?
New Jersey
What did Nancy Holt study at Tufts University?
Biology
Who is Nancy Holt’s husband?
Robert Smithson
Sun Tunnels is an example of what art movement?
Outdoor Earthworks of the Land art movement.
What do “Sun Tunnels” consist of?
It consists of four large concrete cylinders set into the Great Basin Desert in Utah, configured in the shape of an “X” that measures eighty-six feet on the diagonal.
What magazine issue the essay “Sun Tunnels” by Nancy Holt?
Artforum magazine
When was the magazine “Sun Tunnels” by Nancy Holt published?
1977
How many years did it took Nancy Holt to plan and execute the artwork “Sun Tunnels”?
It took Holt three years to plan and execute.
When and where was Mark Dion (the artist behind our selected artwork “A Meter of Jungle”) born?
he was born in 1961 in New Bedford, Massachusetts
Similarly to Hans Haake, what was Mark Dione (the artist behind our selected artwork “A Meter of Jungle”) concerned with?
histories of museum display
Who did Mark Dion (the artist behind our selected artwork “A Meter of Jungle”) meeting in the 1980s’ at the Independent Study Program of Whitney Museum of American Art in New York? They studied together as well.
Hans Haake
A Meter of Jungle (our selected art work by Mark Dione) was a contribution to what exhibition in 1992?
Arte Amazonas at Rio de Janeiro’s Museu de Arte Moderna
What did the work for creating A Meter of Jungle by Mark Dion entail?
transplanting a section of the Amazon rainforest floor to the gallery of the Arte Amazonas at Rios de Janeiro’s Museum de Arte Moderna in 1992 and sifting through the soil very closely to identify insects
What natural historian is A Meter of Jungle by Mark Dione inspired by?
William Bebe; who had filled a “war-bag” with leaves, sticks, moss, earth, and different types of mold from the Brazilian rainforest to dissect during his boat ride back to New York
As an employee of the New York Zoological Park (now the Bronx Zoo), what did William Bebe (the man who inspired Mark Dion’s A Meter of Jungle) found?
it was called the Department of Tropical Research
What has Mark Dion (the artist behind our selected work A Meter of Jungle) been recognzed for?
conceptual art projects grounded in environmental concerns
What did the display of Mark Dion’s A Meter of Jungle coincided with?
the United Nations “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro in 1992
Meter of Jungle is an artwork rooted in the belief that ___.
building a responsible future involves working through the challenging legacies of the environmental past
Who was a reference point for Mark Dion’s A Meter of Jungle?
William Beebe
Who’s work is ecology fundamental for?
Mark Dion
What do critiques say about Mark Dion’s work?
that its antiquated passion for “natural history” or strictly an activist call to action.
What does Dion do that provides a vies of the 1990s ecology politics?
his extended treatment of the tropical rainforest
When do the tropics first appear on Dion’s work?
1989
What does the piece “Tropical Rainforest Preserves” look like?
a library like cart
With who did Dion collaborate with to make “Tropical Rainforest Preserves”
William Schefferine
Dion created A Meter of Jungle in the context of what?
a United Nations “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro in 1992
When was Pierre Huyghe born
1962
Where does Pierre Huyghe study?
Nationale Supérieure des art Décoratifs
When did Pierre Huyghe international first appear internationally
1990s
Who did Pierre Huyghe co-authorship “No-Ghost just a shell” with
Philippe Parreno.
What is Pierre Huyghe ethnicity
French
Which major character did Pierre Huyghe buy the intellectual property to
Annlee
When did Pierre Huyghe make “the third memory”
1999
When was “Untitled” made
2011-2012
Which international Documenta was “Untitled made for
the 13th
Which three writers, wrote about their experience of nature from a solitary perspective?
Thoreau, Muir, and Leopold,
What ethnicity is Alma Woodsey Thomas?
African-American
Howl old was Thomas when she moved to Washington D.C.?
16
What university did Thomas receive her fine arts degree?
Harvard
Where was Thomas a teacher?
Shaw Junior High School
What year did Alma Thomas a full time artist?
1960
in 1972 where was Thomas’s art exhibited?
Whitney Museum of American Art
Thomas is the first black woman to do what?
one-person exhibition at that institution.
Where was Ana Mendieta born?
Ana Mendieta (1948–85) was born in Havana, Cuba.
Why did Ana Mendieta left Cuba in 1961?
She left the island in 1961 following the Cuban Revolution through Operation Pedro Pan.
What is Operation Pedro pan? (From Untitled…Series)
An American government program run by Catholic Charities, which managed to transport 14,000 unaccompanied children out of Fidel Castro’s Cuba to the United States.
What university did Ana Mendiete get her Bachelor’s and Master of art degree in painting?
University of Iowa
What did Grass on Women by Ana Mendieta consisted of?
In Grass on Woman (1972), Mendieta lay face-down in the grass and partially covered herself with more cut grass,
What does “Feathers on Women” by Ana Mendieta consisted of?
In works like Feathers on Woman of 1972, she covered her naked body
with chicken feathers to transform herself into the Mesoamerican feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl.
What does “Chicken Piece” by Ana Mendieta consists of?
In Chicken Piece she carried out a ritualistic performance with the blood of a decapitated chicken, rendering her body an extreme expressionistic action painting and evoking both Cuban Santería rituals and the radical performances of other post-World War II artists such as Carolee Schneemann, Chris Burden, and the Viennese Actionists, who incorporated elements of danger, bodily fluids, and slain animals in many of their performances.
What did the “Silueta” series by Ana Mendieta consisted of?
Consisted of traced or sculpted outlines of Mendieta’s body on the ground using various materials and methods that include ignited gunpowder, leaves, grass, mud, stones, other natural elements, and cloth.
What type of marks were left by Ana Mendieta as sign of movement and presence?
In some works, she occasionally left additional marks of her movement and presence, such as handprints.
When was Rebecca Belmore born
1960
Where is Rebecca Belmore from
Ontario Canada
What First nation is Rebecca Belmore part of
Lac Seul
What city did Rebecca Belmore move to with a primarily white school
Thunder Bay
What collage did Rebecca Belmore go to
Ontario collage of art
What school did Rebecca Belmore get honored with a membership
Royal canadian Academy of arts
When was “Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan:Speaking to your mother” made
1991
What years did Rebecca Belmore take “Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan:Speaking to your mother” across the USA and Canada
2002 and 2006
What type of art is “Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan:Speaking to your mother”
A sculpture (there is also an audio with the same name)
Rebecca Belmore originally created our selected artwork Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama mowan: Speaking to their Mother in 1991 as a response to what? Describe this event.
a 78 day political standoff (known as the Oka Crisis or Kanesatake Resistance) that lasted from July 11 to September 26, 1990 in which a group of 55 Indigenous Mohawk tribe people protested in the Kahnawake reserve in Quebec in an attempt to block the construction of a golf course and townhomes on the land (ownership disputed) that contained a burial ground
How did the Oka Crisis (aka Kanesatake Resistance), which inspired Rebecca Belmore to create our selected artwork Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama mowan: Speaking to Their Mother, end?
with the Canadian Army of more than two thousand soldiers arriving, the government then bought the land and ceased property construction, however, it was designated as a territory of the Mohawk reserve.
What is Rebecca Belmore’s Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother made of?
it is a cone made of wood and animal hide measuring six feet wide and seven feet long and will occasionally include an electronic megaphone attached to one end
Rebecca Belmore’s Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan amplifies the voice how many times?
nine times
Who is the intended audience of Rebecca Belmore’s Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother when speaking into it?
the land (which Belmore, like Ana Mendiata, addresses as being maternal)
Why was 1992 a particularly important year in regards to Rebecca Belmore’s Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother (in 1992 and 1996 Belmore took Speaking to Their Mother across Canada and the United States)?
it was important for addressing ongoing Indigenous social and environmental issues as it marked the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s first landing in the Americas and the beginning of European colonization
What term did Vanessa watts coin to describe the notion that the land had a conscious of its own in regards to Rebecca Belmore’s Ayum–ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother?
“place-thought”
What type of art is Rebecca Belmore most associated with? She is the artist behind our selected work: Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother
performance art
What are the three debated starting points for the Anthropocene? (Hint: two were mentioned in the Social Science packet)
it began with the onset of the Industrial Revolution, Great Acceleration, or that European colonization which was centuries earlier) was a key development that triggered activities that would lead to the current climate crisis
Where were the boxes in the piece ‘See Saw’ buried?
Houston’s Hermann Park
Where did Mel Chin attend college?
Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
Where would viewers look at Unmoored?
floating above Times Square
Why did Mel Chin create ‘See Saw’ of 1976?
To encourage social interaction
How is Revival Field different from other site-based earthworks?
It also effectively improves the ecological condition of that place
Who is featured in the film ‘The Arctic Is’ of 2015?
Jens Danielson
Where does Jens Danielson’s pull a dog sled in “The Arctic Is’ of 2015?
The streets of Paris, France, and along the bank of Seine River
How deep is the water in ‘Unmoored’?
26 feet deep
Which film did Al Gore make and star in?
An Inconvenient Truth
The artist of “Shea Cobb with her Mother… (1982) is a African-American Artist and activist. Where was she born and when?
Braddock, Pennsylvania in 1982
What are are Latoya Ruby Frazier’s practices. (She is the creator of “Shea Obb with Her Mother…”)
Her Practices centered on photography (She got her Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography 2007), but also included; video, performance, installation, and artist’s books
