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Monday, 8 December 2008

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Allan Kaprow

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Joseph Beuys

Most famous for his ritualistic public performances. He chamioned the healing powers of art. Along side performance and sculpture he also worked with prints, drawing, instillation.
The myth says that during WW2 he was active in service with the German airforce. Stationed in the Crimea. He said he was rescued from the wreckage by Tartar tribesmen, who wrapped him in animal fat and felt which kept him alive. His work was often made from these materials or included them. He also wore a felt hat and carried a lump of lard in his top pocket. The materials that saved him.

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Joseph Beuys

Sunday, 7 December 2008

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Chakai Booker

Using old rubber tires to give form, she comments on black identity to urban ecology. Tires can be traced back to Duchamps ready-mades.
Booker however, extracts an intense concentration of meanings from the tires.
Tranformation one of today most indestructible waster products into things of beauty

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Chakaia Booker

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Rober Gober

Like a scene from a strange fairy tale using everyday objects into warped surrealist images. His work creates a traumatic and uncertain childhood narritive

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Robert Gober

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Kirsten Pieroth

Carefully appropriating everyday items and changing their nature and location. Or displacing them to an unlikely context. Images below where from Berliner Pfutze, Pieroth, In this work she relocated an ordinary puddle from steets in areas of berlin and relocated them to distinctly different locations.

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Kirsten Pieroth

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Ariel Schlesinger

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Stephane Vigny

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Bonno Van Doom

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Allora and Calzadilla

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Francis Alys

Wandering the streets of mexico with a gun or crossing the boarder with a can of paint dripping a line.

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Francis Alys

Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Andreas Slominski

Andreas Slominski, Stolen bicycle pump
A unique way of dealing with the performative, he has formulated by the artist. He works with the relationships that tie actions to objects and the legends that are created around an incident.
Sawing the bit of the bike that holds the pump instead of the lock. These incidents are documented by video and photography.