Tonight is the BIG NIGHT when the previously discussed Work of Art premiers on television’s BRAVO network. If you are going to view the program, I highly recommend reading Art Fag City’s supplemental program guide and all show-related posts Jesse P. Martin has written at PURPLE LINKS. My own contribution is the proposed week-to-week episode breakdown as follows:
Establishing Myth: describe the narrative and metaphor of an ancient myth through installation. Only materials to be used are plastic Pokémon characters.
Identity Paintbrush Challenge: draw a paintbrush from the bucket, and make an artwork informed by or addressing the labeled constituency. Identities include: second wave hunter-gatherers, neoevangelists, the Tang party, puppies and bunnies, pantomime environmentalists, niche marketers, microglobalists, pipsters, proprietary vegetarians, and urban jamokes
It is What never Was: visually reconstruct the simulacra - cannot use self portraiture
Cut! #1: make a video
Cut! #2: remake the same video
Cut! #3: remake the remade same video
None for You: make a work of art so ephemeral, it cannot be sold
Name the Null Set: Minimalism with a capital M
The Object Found: Utilize a slaughtered chicken
Koonsian: have another contestant make your art for you
The Body as Medium: demonstrate Lars von Triers’ personification of women in a performance piece
THE FINAL CHALLENGE: written exam, closed notes.
Question: Compare and contrast in theoretical, historic and critical context, the notion of beauty in at least three periods of art prior to 1800 and after Modernism. Codify those notions as they apply to Clement Greenberg’s article Avant-Garde and Kitch, Juvenile and Preteen Beauty Pageants, Lady Gaga and your experience on this program. You have 45 minutes.
Ha! If there's actually "THE FINAL CHALLENGE," this show will rock my world. Otherwise, it looks like the whole affair will be about how to "utilize a slaughtered chicken," with the artist/contestants and judges/"industry luminaries" playing the part of the chicken.
ReplyDeleteWhy oh why haven't I been reading your blog?!! This post is hysterical! Cant wait until you get settled in...in the meantime I will catch up on your previous posts.
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