pilgrimage
- ritual
- alter
- shrine
- cleanliness = godliness
- alter to the cleansers
- shrine to the gods of cleaning
- magic cleaning products eg microfibres
Making everyday objects special, eg origami lolly wrappers into interesting shapes
Different gods: fertility, health, wealth, love, cleanliness, order, war, peace, household gods as in Bali
transform products into altar (?)
make altar and put things there that are every day things like cleaning products, or other things we use everyday. Incense and flowers with them etc.
Give things away - leaflets about art, or art works, or our own produce from garden - opposite of the consumer oriented supermarket where we just give people stuff - needs to be presented as something special and look beautiful in some way.
The other idea was
wedding ceremony
- marriage, history of the ritual, what it originally meant
- wedding dresses
- wedding entourage
- the superficiality of it all
- the wedding as a consumer event
- wedding dress wrapped in chains with cleaning products etc locked on
- bride, bridesmaid and mother of the bride all dressed up and pushing a trolley down supermarket aisle as in everyday life
Questions:
how obvious or subtle? How confronting? How much interaction with other people in whatever public space we decide?
Notes from Judy's class
- Why haven't we bothered to go and find out what intervention means?????
- Some artists in the tradition: Gilbert and George, Mark Pearson, Alan Kaprow, Carolee Scheemann, Josehp Beuys, Sandra Binion
- Putting forward things that are difficult to express - cutting edge
- Irony
- Fluxus - neoDada, happenings
- muliples of same object to make a statement
- photodocumentation is essential
- an event rather than an object that is worth money
- Fluxus believes art is about life and everyone can "do" art
- disrupting what we know as music, theatre and visual art
- forming new connections between artist/s, the audience and public space
- disurbing urban space
- interaction takes place with a ritualistic, structured format
- need to spend alot of time in the space (eg shopping centre) observing what happens, to come up with an idea
- timing and speed are important - slow, fast, automated, how much interaction with peopl e in the space
- could do a complex idea but just do one small part of it to keep it simple
After talking with Judy, Amanda, Sharon and Jill decided we need to put it back at least one week!
I suggest we look at some internet sites about the artists listed above and also look up 'intervention' and compare notes.
Anyone had any brainwaves, in the mean time??
