At the same time as my intermedia class I also had a relational aesthetics class. Since the art is the actual event what you see in these photos is documentation but it still basically meant that I had to get two installations done in 48 hours. It all worked out for the best though and it was lovely seeing people who had seen the flour paths react as if they now knew the key to some big secret.
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“Love is what gives respect for humanity its life, making it more than a shell.” - Martha Nussbaum
I’ve been working on a side research project on public practice art / relational aesthetics and reading more political philosophy to help me think through some of the relevant concepts. Martha Nussbaum is a favorite. Her book on political emotions explores how to engage our emotions…”on behalf of a more just, more inclusive, gentler, and more imaginative society?” (Source: NY Review of Books)
Martha Nussbaum - Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice
To sustain democratic institutions, Nussbaum claims, a liberal society should cultivate the emotions that underpin imagination and sympathy for others, and the way to do this is through education and the arts. Imaginative capacities will be developed very early in the family, and should be furthered via art, poetry, music and literature. These skills enable us to see each person’s fate in every other’s, and to picture it vividly as an aspect of our own. For Nussbaum, the liberal tradition should not cede emotion to anti-liberal forces (fascism, for example, was particularly good at using emotions for political ends). But all political principles need a proper emotional basis to ensure their stability over time, and all decent societies need to guard against division by cultivating appropriate sentiments of sympathy and love. This is why political emotions, narrative imagination, and love matter for justice.”—Marina Gerner, The Times Literary Supplement
An installation I did for my intermedia class. We worked on the project for pretty much the whole semester but were only given 48 hours to set up and completely redo a room. Then we had to take it down after only 5-6 hours up. As with all installations, photos don’t quite capture it.
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One Of The World’s Last Remaining Globe-Makers That Use The Ancient Art Of Making Globes By Hand
more: Bellerby & Co. Globemakers
In the modern age, with the advent of GPS in addition to the abundance of mass-produced globes and maps, the art of globe making has fallen by the wayside. Only two workshops in the world still make handcrafted globes; one of them is us….. Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, a studio based in Stoke Newington, London.
Founded by Peter Bellerby in 2008, the artisan studio was born when Bellerby struggled to find a quality globe for his father’s 80th birthday present. Faced with a choice between a cheaply made modern globes or a fragile, expensive antique model, Bellerby decided to spend a few months and a few thousand pounds making his own, instead. The process turned out to be more complicated, costly, and time-intensive than he thought, eventually leading to the creation of his own globe-making studio.
Now, we have a small team of dedicated Globe-makers constructing high-quality, handmade, artisan globes that are as much works of art as they are scientific instruments. From the stand, to the painting, to the mapmaking, each piece is expertly crafted in-house using traditional and modern globe-making techniques.
Matthew Day Jackson, Enshrouded Paris, 2013
Is The Post Above Art?
Starting with an easy one. This one is obviously art, it was put in a gallery which in a weird way kinda does make anything you put on display art, especially if you know someone who really hates modern or contemporary art and you want to piss them off. Then you take then to a really off the wall exhibit and you’re like I’ll take your Mona Lisa and raise you this painted Cheeto on a rock (still on of my favourite pieces of all time, no lies).
This particular piece was in his show “Something Ancient, Something New, Something Stolen, Something Blue,” Spoiler alert this was the something blue. You may recognize the blue from that clip with Stephen Colbert and Eddie Redmayne where they talked about his Thesis on “Yves Klein Blue”.
Now if you’re going to talk more in art critic terms you might talk about the richness of the blue in contrast to what appears to be copper, or how the slight relief of Paris on the black and blue carries forth the unreadability and life of the city far stronger than a usual Noly map would. But, if we’re going to be poetic than we might was well just say that here we have Paris painted in the colour of man who loved and lived in this city, with a copper river that makes the blue read as the sky, the black pairing with the blue as an unreadable universe that you might see when you look up at the Paris sky.
Conclusion: Yeah bud that’s a Texas sized 10-4
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"where’s your homework"
Guys this was a satirical piece by a CBC radio comedy show, it’s not an actual art project and that picture is also not of an actual art exhibition but a photoshopped photo of a different exhibition that took place in Milan, not New York. That’s why there’s a listen button beside the summary of the article. This is an explanation [x] and this is the actual source [x].
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway - Huge map mural at Manchester Victoria [3888x2592]
ok tom holland is cute and all but he constantly looks like he’s hiding a frog in his mouth and it’s uncomfortably hopping around in there but he can’t open his mouth or the frogs gonna escape
Is the Post Above Art?
The 20th century art movement of surrealism holds a very important position in the canon of modern art and I have the utmost respect for it and it’s sometimes admittedly very creepy work (I’m looking at you creepy doll paintings I had to stare at far to often) but because I’m tired and it’s all I can think of we’re going to use it as the best match for memes.
Modern memes juxtapose recognizable ideas and memories with the ridiculous, like above a frog trapped in Tom Holland’s mouth. In Dali’s Persistence of Time clocks melt like camembert to show the strain of memory and time in a sort of non-sensical mindscape and confuses and fascinates but at the same time we as a viewer can easily identify with. Similarly, in memes like this we see Tom Holland a representative of an actor in Hollywood physically hold the position of what a facial expression of one holding a frog in their mouth. Knowing the common western phrase of frog in the throat being one having difficulty speaking we can see how through the power of Hollywood though one may gain influence they do not always gain the power to speak due to the overwhelming capitalistic ambitions of Hollywood to occupy American’s thoughts, wallets and beliefs.
Conclusion: So…uhh yeah sure.
On one hand i have to read plato, on the other hand i want to talk about art cause it’s cool. Anyone out there wanna talk about art?
Gonna try and focus on being an art-ish blog. We’ll see how long that lasts. I mean I know I’m gonna end up in the trash category again so I’ll just try to explain why something could be justifiably art in the tags when I reblog it.