SO.. THIS ONE THEN?

Any more suggestions?

FOR THE SHOW!

URGENT!

I am currently searching for two women (could you be you and a close friend) who would be interested in modeling for my photography piece. The work is commentary on the exploitation of gay sexual interactions, as well as commenting on the lack of intimacy that often occurs due to drinking. Your role as models would involve being totally clothed, one straddling the other on a couch, sitting up. That's it! I can't see this taking more than fifteen minutes. As you may or may not know, the idea is to obscure the photograph so that you look like small plastic dolls, so you may or may not be recognizable. Certain beverages will be in the shot, and if you wanted to drink some of this certain beverage/take home a six pack of beverages in return for modeling that's all fine and swell by me.

I am ALSO looking for four or five dudes who want to participate in the photo shoot by standing/holding/drinking certain beverages. Again, this wouldn't take more than a few minutes as I hope to get set up before everyone gets to location. Everything happens at my apartment above liquor downtown.

If it makes the ladies more comfortable, I am more than willing to shoot the women and men separately to give them privacy. I actually assume that will be the case. Thanks everyone! Please comment/agree to help me w my project!

Peace and Love
Holly V

Questions? I've got answers! Call me at (630) 272 7443

oops missed one

VOTE.. i guess. or suggest an idea..

Highly recommended....

FLYERRRRR!!!!

Sean and I have complettted the Flyer.. well. maybe.. let us know what you think!

Love Sean and Michelle :)

does anyone have a sewing machine?

does anyone have a sewing machine here in Iowa City that Sean R & I can use for our project?

Group Show

Dear all,

Lots of planning....

Today the second half of the class checked in with their project ideas. A few days ago Kris suggested the title, "A Peculiar Affair". Today the group seemed to like it [with the addition of a descriptor--like, "A Peculiar Affair: Intermedia II Spring Show," or something of the sort.

We discussed the need for the flier, title and overall display tactics to accommodate a wide variety of work, from the wildly performative to the quietly cerebral. The work is across the board, so there is a real need for cohesive signage, neatness in the installation, etc.

As some of you know, we will not be going to Special Archives on Tuesday. Please come to the classroom.

*On Tuesday, Sean R and Michelle will discuss the flier ideas.

*You must confirm a name for the show so they can proceed.

*The wall stencil/sign for the show should perhaps use the same typeface as the flier?

*Shane will create a Facebook event when the title is determined

*Josh will need from each of you: your name (as you want it to appear), title of your piece, and medium for the wall text. In addition, if you want additional text, like a statement, this will need to be submitted to him electronically (Josh, please let us know your preferred email), so it can be printed on nice paper, with the same styling as the above. *note, the statement I am asking for need not hang on the wall, but is intended for class-use. It may be too long for wall text!

*All space and pedestal requests must be submitted to Cassie BY MONDAY NIGHT.

*Remember to speak to Jared in checkout to reserve the equipment you need--in advance! Ideally you'd talk to him directly, otherwise:

*If you haven't clarified with me what you are doing, please do so ASAP!

Other items to discuss Tuesday:

*Food

*Set-up/tear-down

I'm excited and hope you are too. I think the show is going to be great!

Name/ Theme

I don't remember who was supposed to start this one, but here's an idea.

Balloons came up a lot the last time we met. I have a thing for old school circus posters. What if our show incorporated a Circus/Freak Show theme (more freak show). This wouldn't affect the theme of any individual projects, only the way we package them for the audience. Each project would then become a spectacle of it's own luring the individual into a world of mediated reality, causing oohs and ahhs, and slight discomfort.

I think some of you may have been in the "bad carnival"at open house last semester, and one of you is in a circus of your own. Maybe you'd have more in put... or maybe you are tired of the theme?

Space Allocation!

The dimensions of the porch gallery:

South Wall (back) 15'-10"
East and West 17'-5"
North Wall approx. 7'-6"
Door Way width, approx. 7'-11"

Things to think about as you request space:

Please tell me as much as you can about your project, when you can.
Will it be mounted on the wall?
Will you need pedestals?
Does anything hang (200lb, dead weight max.)
Performance... where and when?
Video... monitors or projection?
Sculpture? How much space do you want to have around your object?
How do you imagine you piece will interact with other objects around it?

And finally, your preference(s) for location. Think of at least two options.

I need these email dresses as well:
Mark
Sean C
Lane
Holly

Hope you all had a great spring break!

Thank you!
Cassie
cassandra-reardon@uiowa.edu

Group Show

No one initiated the needed conversations about the upcoming group show.

The following are timely issues:

*You need to choose a name so the flier designers can get to work

*Discuss space planning

Marina Abramović @ MoMA

[recommended reading: the full article in the current, March 8, 2010 issue of The New Yorker. Abstract below.]

Profiles
Walking Through Walls
Marina Abramović’s performance art.
by Judith Thurman

ABSTRACT: PROFILE of performance artist Marina Abramović.

Last August, Abramović invited the writer to observe a five-day retreat that she held at her home in the Hudson Valley. The retreat was an intensive workshop in hygiene and movement that Abramović calls “Cleaning the House.” The participants were thirty-two of the thirty-nine mostly young men and women whom she had chosen to participate in a full-scale retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, “Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present.” They will be reënacting five of the approximately ninety pieces she has created since 1969, including three that were originally performed with the German artist Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen), her former lover and collaborator. Abramović’s career, now in its fifth decade of self-reinvention, falls into three periods: before, with, and after Ulay. Abramović and Ulay made art symbiotically for twelve nomadic years, from 1976 to 1988. “It is very important to understand how much Marina invests in her artistic career, it being her life,” Ulay wrote. Describes their last performance together, in which they walked toward each other along thousands of miles of the Great Wall of China. After three months, they met in the middle and said goodbye. “The Artist Is Present” will be the longest durational work ever mounted in a museum. Members of the audience may participate by sitting in an empty chair directly opposite Abramović’s. She is hoping for an “emotional connection with anyone who wants to look at me for however long.” Describes an Abramović performance in 1974 in which the audience intervened to save her life after she lost consciousness inside a burning star. Tells about Abramović’s childhood in Yugoslavia. Her parents held high positions in Marshal Tito’s government. Mentions two recent books: “When Marina Abramović Dies” (M.I.T.; $27.95) by James Westcott and “Art, Love, Friendship: Marina Abramović and Ulay, Together and Apart”; (McPherson; $27) by Thomas McEvilley. Describes the effect that the self-immolation of the Vietnamese Monk Thich Quang Duc had on Abramović and other performance artists. Most of Abramović’s peers among the pioneers of what might be called “ordealism,” to distinguish it from tamer or more cerebral forms of performance art, have long since retired from their harrowing vocation, and some died young. Abramović has been a prominent target for the purists. Even Ulay recently remarked, “I don’t believe in these performance ‘revivals.’” Vito Acconci told the writer, “Marina now seems to want to make performance teachable and repeatable, but then I don’t understand what separates it from theatre.” (In keeping with his principles, however, he lets things go. He gave Abramović permission to reperform a version of “Seedbed,” his masturbation epic, as part of a show at the Guggenheim five years ago.) Writer attends Abramović’s sixty-third birthday dinner. Other guests included David Blaine, Laurie Anderson, and Antony Hegarty.

from

http://thedailywh.at/

Week 10

During week 10 (the week after break) we will not be holding regular class. Instead I have split the class in half in order to have some consultation time. You are expected to be in class on the scheduled day. The day you are not scheduled is a studio day. Please come prepared with a pitch or a prototype for your project.

March 23: Allen, Neil!

Arnold, Mark

Campbell, Jessica

Corbut, Sean

Day, Harrison

Dunlay, Emily

Durey, Michelle

Futtner, Patrick March 25:

Kaufman, Kristine

Krantz, Alexandra

O'Shaughnessy, Shane

Reardon, Cassandra

Robinson, Sean

Schmidt, Lane

Spain, Joshua

Vargo, Holly

 

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BS GALLERY Opening this Friday Night!

Lindsay Warren -MFA SHOW - closing reception tomorrow!

Lindsay Warren - Printmaking
Closing reception at the Market-Dubuque Exhibition Space

Please join us for live Bluegrass music and tasty snacks 5 -8 pm, Friday March 5th

Market-Dubuque Exhibition Space
122 E Market Street, Iowa City

See you there!

Group Show info

After our. rather unruly, discussion of the group show yesterday, I thought I should review the following:

*You are scheduled to install on Friday April 2. All projects must be installed between noon on April 2 and 5PM on April 3.

*We will host a public reception on Thursday April 8 from 5-7PM. All are expected to attend to be present throughout the reception.

[This day is also Emily's 22nd Bday -and-the day of the Black Keys concert]

*The work must be taken down between 7:15PM Thursday April 8 and 11:30AM Friday April 9--this is not negotiable as others will be using the space that day! 

Considerations to discuss: flier design and distribution, food for the event, wall tags for the work, repairing the walls/cleanup, a sign for the entrance, how to accommodate performances, space allocation, etc. **Please add comments to this post with other concerns about the show.

Let's make this great. Go TEAM! hehe.

Project 2: Mediated Reality

"A basic tenet of postmodernism is that our understanding of the world is based first and foremost on mediated images." - Eleanor Heartney in Postmodernism

For this project, create an artwork that exposes either a particular or a general class of media manipulation in our culture. Your artwork should somehow demonstrate the fallacy of an idea that is being fed to us. Your definition of media and media manipulation can be broadly defined. The manipulation may be subtle, and in fact exposing subtle yet insidious manipulations are probably the strongest subject for this project. Bring to light something that we take for granted, something that has become second nature to us. These can be cultural norms, conventions of our time, generational differences, etc.

Ideas that come to mind are: notions of family, becoming an adult, material wealth, etc. For this project, try to stay away from the obvious areas of advertising and political spin – the intrinsic reality-bending of these two areas has already been worked over pretty well, hence it is extremely easy to fall into tired and cliched treatments. However, I am not going so far as to say that these areas are off-limits, just be careful to take a unique approach. As an alternative, you may want to search for some not-so-obvious manipulation to bring to light. You may find it more personally relevant to look at areas where you have been the target of some sort of manipulation. Particularly pay attention to implied cultural assumptions.

In your exposure of the manipulation, a deeper and longer lasting meaning for the viewer is usually created if you allow the viewer to come up with the "proper" interpretation rather than to hit them over the head with a message.Your artwork .

As usual, the project may be executed in any medium and may be object-oriented or otherwise, but you must bring your work to a professional level of finish and install it in the gallery space during the allotted time. Also, you must turn in a 250-word artist statement with the piece for critique.

Follow up

As we discussed Holly's work yesterday, I was reminded of this beautiful piece.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres
"Untitled" (Lovers - Paris), 1993
Light bulbs, extension cords, porcelain light sockets