Student Pages
Public Work for Removal
Vance Monument, Asheville, NC
"The Advance Monument: A Proposal for Asheville's Vance Problem"
Anti-monument
Claes Oldenburg's Proposals for Anti-monuments
The Scissor Monument:
A Proposal to Replace Washington Obelisk in Washington DC
“The obviousness of his pieces is so overwhelming that you can enjoy them just by hearing about them -- such as his plan to replace the Washington Monument with a giant pair of scissors in a piece called: "Proposed Colossal Monument to Replace the Washington Obelisk, Washington, D.C.: Scissors in Motion" (1967). Snip, snip, snip: Imagine a ponderous baritone metallic slice noise emanating from the circle of flags on the monument slope, day and night.” Henry Allen, Feb 12,1995 in the Washington Post.
Lisa Klakulak
www.strongfelt.com
@feltstrong
www.facebook.com/strongfelt
Week 4, September 26
Public/Counter Monuments
Week 5, October 3
Pedestal, Form, Object
Week 6, October 10
Installation, Site, Performance
Nari Ward’s Amazing Grace from his residency at The Studio Museum in Harlem 1993 installed at the New Museum in New York 2019 as well as his pieces’ Savior 1996 and Crusader 2005 that reconfigure homeless people’s modes of carrying (on) in reaction to the AIDS epidemic, drugs and homelessness of the 90’s.
How does place of install modify the specificity of the original site of circumstance? This work was installed in an abandoned firehouse, in museum settings in New York as well as in Europe. Does a museum setting or one out of the cultural context of the original site give voice to the underserved or trivialize through material sensation and aesthetic?
Week 7, Oct 17
Social Practice/Social Sculpture/Public Practice
Tanya Aguiniga, Performance Crafting: Hand and Hand
Tanya Aguiniga, Performance Crafting:Felt Me
Does a social practice that uses a traditional craft form to bring community together, and which by default of time constraints and number of participants and/or intentionally placing aesthetics as secondary, do a disservice to the lineages of crafts people who have developed and refined process? A community in itself?
Jim Drain, Art Schools Collaborative, Haystack School of Craft, Deer Isle, Maine
Leandro Erlich - Environmental Land Art | Order of Importance, Dec 3, 2019 opening at Art Basel, Miami Beach
Swimming Pool, Kanazawa, Japan. 1999
Debuted at 49th Venice Biennial
"With Swimming Pool, the surprise and the understanding of the “trick” produce an optimistic consideration: we construct reality ourselves, we can never accept it as given."
Labeled as Public Art on his website