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??
4 comments:
Hi Everyone
After class last friday Amanda, Judy and I went to the shopping centre.
Amanada had a good idea about making a quiet space with lovely aromatic smells from flowers etc that I thought was a good idea.
I dont want to cancel our class this Friday for the lecture at Curtin by Denise Green.
Cheers
Sharon
The idea was kind of Judy's - to have a couple of sheepskins to lie on while listening to nice, relaxing, non-shopping-centre sounds, surrounded by smells of non-shopping centre things like grass, roses, etc.
Re: bride what about her dragging unopened presents behind her, quietly, doing laps around the centre? (Could have a white cloth around her face to make more anonymous, more like an actor?)
here are Joy's thoughts:
Hi everyone,
I just tried to post a comment on the blog. It didn't work. My personal email is temporarily out of action. My home ph is 93782459 my mb is 041 562 9663 I went to midland gate shops after class on friday, only for about 20 minutes.
As I walked from one end to the other I did think of our project ideas. I did have a few thoughts --- One was that the wedding idea would need a whole load of planning to have the right impact/message otherwise I think we will just look silly and probably just piss people off, unless that is our aim?
Secondly I did think that the shrine idea could work, again though would need to be executed well to have the right impact.
Thirdly I did think that the space is great for a documented walk from one end to the other maybe giving things away. What could you give away though, whatever it was, would it have to have some kind of relevance other than just the opposite to consumerism???
Sorry not to have come up with any other ideas yet.Still madly thinking about it.
Sounds like you all want to change dates for the project. I'm happy to do that too; however if we all go to the lecture you mentioned Amanda then we still have to do pinhole cameras too and I think that may mean giving up our tuition free week. Not to happy about that prospect!!!!
Free hugs???
I know its been done before but the world needs as much love as it can get!!!!
I'm happy to be a free hugger!!!!
Hope to hear from you all soon
Love from Joy
Hi everyone, I have changed the settings so that we are all authors and have included Judy and Pauline in case they want to provide us with any guidance in our intervention deliberations. That way we are all on the blog itself which means we don't have to go into comments to get an idea of what everyone is thinking. Meanwhile I am going to put a summary of what you have all said on the main blog.
Feel free to add stuff to the blog itself rather than comments only.
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