Week 11: Tues. Mar. 30
still unsure about the food assignment.
looked up some other artists who use food as material in their art practice.
Tom Marioni – the act of drinking beer with friends is the highest form of art.
Judy Chicago’s installation The Dinner Party.
http://www.tom-jeffreys.co.uk/food-as-art-art-as-food-the-rise-of-conceptual-cookery/161
In another class, I came across an essay on Form and Formless. In it they briefly mention Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, whose Photography appeared in Bataille’s surrealist opublication Documents. The images were simple images of animal meat posed on ordinary surfaces. Seeing their work allowed me to make a connect to food art.
The images also resonated with me because it ties back to a zine I made that collects images of dirty dishes. The following images are some new attempts of making Wol-ish food art.
I felt like this was directly ripping on Wol so I made a modified it to be adding stuff that doesn’t belong in a frying pan. For me, I felt that there was a sense of grotesque in Wol’s work that I wanted to continue, and also a memorial aspect with it being black and white.
At this moment, I was question whether I wanted to obscure the pan, or take a photo of it from a distance. This was partially because I was torn between showing texture and emphasizing the banality of the event. With this pairing in mind, I droooed the idea of curating things into pans. I wanted to capture a happening.
There was also no conceptual basis for using the mix seeds aside from being what was on hand at the time.
When cleaning the pan, I noticed the sink hadn’t been washed and a lot of food had been built up. It then it me that I can use Wol’s aesthetic to document these sinks.
- I think if I were to ex a physical space, i’d like to print it into a big poster, like barbara kruger.
- I’ll ditch the time stuff.
- I like that this makes me thing about the cleanliness of the sink and the kind of the food that goes to waste. I think I’ll keep this project going -maybe even submit to JAS next year -Thus the final photo is left unfinished.
Food Art:
Hi Justin!
Week 1:
Katchadourian notes complete and lots of reflection and engagement, 3 Book stack images complete and more – I find them a bit puzzling (you seem to use a very personal, idiosyncratic symbology) but I see lots of thinking and processing, and a genuine investment in the materials and compositions.
Week 2:
Notes on two text works complete and epic! Sometimes you are joking I think? Is it all absurd? But shows general level of understanding of critical ideas at play.
Week 3:
Text banner exercise and description – so much process and thinking, and close consideration of the article. Great choice of found words – but your materials/colours/and context are puzzling – again – sort of a very personal symbology that isn’t available to viewers. Oh man, imagine the possibilities with “looping”! You could hang it in a circle, where it loops, or other choices that really relate to the meaning of the words. Think more about how material, form, and context all expand meaning for a wider audience – and not just a personal story.
Week 4:
Nature video- I’m wondering if this is also a bit irreverent? Or earnest? Either way is fine – but I’d love to feel one or the other more strongly, as your explicit intention. I laughed watching it – and wondered if you might stand there and be a tree as long as you can? Or showing somehow the absurdity, futility, and gap between the human and the arboreal – in some new and affecting way…and why a cellphone video in the vertical frame? No tripod/fixing of camera? Think about all these choices, especially in a subtle work like this – they all matter.
Notes – did you really dig into these pieces? A bit thin!
I know the works we look at together are surprising, and sometimes even absurd. But trust these references and give them serious attention. Art is a conversation, and you have to listen to other practitioners from the past, and now, in order to participate.
In your own work, think about experimentation (not knowing what will happen) and risk – push yourself but while being safe to make something with more complexity and seriousness.
Thank you for your attendance and engagement in class discussions and activities. We’d like to see and hear more from you!
If you would like to talk with me about your work in progress, readings, exercises, one-on-one comments on your work, and grades – send me an email in the morning to book a 15 minute appointment during the optional in person hours: Thursdays 2:30 – 4:30
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Hi Justin,
Thanks so much for the dedicated work looking and reflecting on the readings and lecture materials, and the Yes No video worked out so well, I think you should all show it next year for Zavitz or in JAS. Thanks for your participation in class too – and contributions to all the exercises, baking, discussions etc. it’s wonderful to have you in the class and I hope we’ll see you again in Experimental 3!
Diane