Mod 2-3 Flashcards
Social practice/socially engaged art
In public space with audience engagement - about a social issue that needs to be addressed
Public art
Public space
City/gov funded
Artist role: design and give all details
Viewers role: view rather than participate
Relational aesthetics
Viewer becomes participant
Art object becomes experience
Artist becomes instigator/facilitator
Ai Weiwei
Challenges authority, duty for artist to express true feelings
Janet Cardiff: Walks
Walking with narratives and videos in the space pre-recorded
Intervention
Changing something, disrupt the normal
Monument
Permanent public art
Krzysztof Wodicko
Monumental/memorial art - making private public through architecture and stories of war and violence
Maya Lin: Vietnam Veterans Memorial
A slice in the ground, memorial monument, public