tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239079.post767640836147195155..comments2024-03-04T04:12:57.650-05:00Comments on THEORY NOW: One Art Fair After AnotherMark Cameron Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04697922195376438088noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239079.post-70949501962931003692007-03-07T20:54:00.000-05:002007-03-07T20:54:00.000-05:00I found it interesting how these artists who use s...I found it interesting how these artists who use site specificity say that the rooms and walls of a museum are "active" and are purposefully isolating the space of art. this is something that i never thought about when viewing art in museum spaces.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239079.post-8121231292745600942007-02-13T23:12:00.000-05:002007-02-13T23:12:00.000-05:00giving an artist a limited space, i feel cheats th...giving an artist a limited space, i feel cheats them out of creating an awesome piece, but it could be nice to have a limit b/c it forced and you have to accomodate something. sometimes with a boundary the installation could turn into something completly unexpected and great.its annyoing but it could be beneficial.Tiffany Mamonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330730986917628253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239079.post-55575444458418923892007-02-07T14:45:00.000-05:002007-02-07T14:45:00.000-05:00Becky: From your post, you have identified the ar...Becky: From your post, you have identified the art fair as a budding extension of the art institution, and it sounds like you are waiting to see art at the art fairs that is critical of what exactly is going on. I think you're right when you talk about the potential for artists to be critical of art fairs and its process (which I think would def. make it site-specific Antea and Jessica), but at the same time, who wants to criticize and complain about the potential for an artist to make a year's salary in one weekend? Aren't there plenty of other things to be critical and gripe about? <br />Do you want our cynical, deconstructive critical attitudes to infiltrate every art intstitution? PS: I might be playing devil's advocate.Jackie Ionitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09531273836655720880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239079.post-64096825629543445232007-02-07T14:02:00.000-05:002007-02-07T14:02:00.000-05:00At the Freize in London, there were a suprising am...At the Freize in London, there were a suprising amount of full gallery installation work - but it seems like that type of things is more of a dressed up billboard advertisement for the gallery hosting the installation piece. the installations at art fairs are hardly "site specific" and really serve to peak the interests potentional new clients, by demonstrating their sensibility to a new "hip" type of art making. There are however expceptions to this, but they seem few and far between at the moment. Ill explain further in class about one particular installation that was very site specific to the Freize in London.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239079.post-38898589242298724572007-02-07T13:49:00.000-05:002007-02-07T13:49:00.000-05:00I believe that site specificity is important to th...I believe that site specificity is important to the intent of the artist. if speaking in a broader sense, where the work is not specific to a room, but rather a city the language created by symbols can be as specific as that of the spoken word. In this belief I think site specificity is necessary for the creator as a means of communicating his or her idea. Even the the orientation of the work(s) makes a difference , especially when dealing with images not as iconic as a company logo. Context has everything to do with how we read certain images, and creating work for a specific place could be the difference between a lowercase 'T' and a crucifix.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239079.post-77541990162467619902007-02-07T12:17:00.000-05:002007-02-07T12:17:00.000-05:00Antea: I agree with your point that art fairs migh...Antea: I agree with your point that art fairs might not be the best example of the future potential for site specific art. <br /><br />Everyone has such a limited space and you go from one artist to the next and so on. But I suppose that in itself could be the point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239079.post-77640098363543956472007-02-07T10:56:00.000-05:002007-02-07T10:56:00.000-05:00I don't feel like art fairs are really a good exam...I don't feel like art fairs are really a good example of a site specific area- art is created to be sold as a commodity there- not to be viewed in a gallery settingor made for a certain landscape. Whether the artist chooses to sell certain pieces based upon this fact might be able to be considered site specific, but I don't think art fairs are site specific in themselves... Am I contradicting myself? Are the people that attend art fairs able to be considered a form of site specificity? Is artwork made and displayed according to the audience that will be attending? What about arts and <i>crafts</i> fairs??Antea Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08434353965502601184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20239079.post-28496619185154963832007-02-06T16:50:00.000-05:002007-02-06T16:50:00.000-05:00This posting makes an interesting point. Art fair...This posting makes an interesting point. Art fairs would seem to provide a context about which artists could create site specific works. Also, as Miwon Kwon points out with respect to galleries and museums, the art fair as an institution would seem likely to cooperate or even encourage artists site-specific critiques even if quite negative. <br /><br />I not sure that I accept Miwon Kwon's characterization of issues or aspects of culture or politics as a "site" about which artists may create site specific art. This seems unnecessarily indirect. Artists can make art about issues, but why is it useful to describe this as site-specific? It would seem more direct to simply refer to art that is about an issue as art that is about such-and-such an issue, or more generally, art that is about some subject. Referring to it as site-specific doesn't seem to aid an understanding of this art.patrickjdonovanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15444197047924162531noreply@blogger.com