Installation Art

MUSEUMISATION OF THE PRESENT

by Suresh Pillai

Tricky Spaces: Animation, Installation and Spatial Politics

by Suzanne Buchan

Buchan, Suzanne (2011) Tricky Spaces: Animation, Installation and Spatial Politics ," in: Tricky Women – Animationsfilmkunst von Frauen – Women in Animation. Schüren Verlag, Marburg. ISBN 978-3-89472-723-9

Do I live in public space? Bessie Nager’s Works on Public Spaces

by Andy Hediger

published in Bessie Nager: hrönir, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg 2009

Narratives and Counter-Narratives: Contesting a Tourist Site in Jerusalem

by Chaim Noy

In Jacqueline Tivers and Tijana Rakić (eds.), Narratives of Travel and Tourism. Aldershot, VT: Ashgate. Pp. 135-150. (2012)

This chapter examines the ideological role that narratives serve in tourism, arguing that tourism should be construed... more This chapter examines the ideological role that narratives serve in tourism, arguing that tourism should be construed as a highly ideological social sphere where political narratives are constantly at a struggle. The case study concerns a tourist site located in Jerusalem (Israel). The case shows how competing stories told of tourist sites and places are actually ideological narratives that serve effectively as part of larger ideological orders – in this case national ideology. I examine the hegemonic narrative (I borrow the term from Antonio Gramsci’s 1971 famous conceptualization) that is institutionally told of the site, and a counter-narrative that has been recently voiced by a group of artists/social activists. It is only through giving room to the latter narrative, that the hegemonic meanings imbued in the common story are revealed. In this sense we encounter counter-narratives in tourism, which are resistive and subversive stories that interrupt and undermine the industry’s powerful political commitments. Interestingly, from the perspective of tourism research, the counter-narrative voiced by local artists/activists is also produced within the semiotic realm of tourism, and also seeks to shape tourists’ consciousness and political convictions.
Thus narratives of tourism sites emerge as constitutive in terms of the meanings with which they charge the sites, and in terms of promoting hegemonic sets of meanings while reducing and silencing other meanings. Examining these narratives illuminates the awesome worldmaking power of tourism, which builds on the facts that, a. high ideological involvement can be achieved in and through tourism without it being explicitly marked as “ideology,” and b. that the nature of tourist behavior - which concerns embodied practices where travelers not only contemplate places but also consume them in an embodied and committed/mobilized sense.

Ger Zielinski (2002) Catalogue essay for Siphay Southidara’s "Articulations." Montreal: Biennale de Montreal 2002.

by Ger Zielinski

Reece Terris: Houses Beautiful (2009)

by Heidi May

exhibition review, published in 'Canadian Art', 2009

For his artwork Ought Apartment, Reece Terris constructed a 60-foot apartment tower containing six full-scale... more For his artwork Ought Apartment, Reece Terris constructed a 60-foot apartment tower containing six full-scale apartments stacked one on top of the other–all placed within the neoclassical rotunda of the Vancouver Art Gallery. With its impressive size and complex construction, Ought Apartment responds to our desire to constantly upgrade our domestic surroundings to what we think we need, and it allows us to think further about the impact consumerism has on our identity and the environment...

Gesturing toward the Visual: virtual reality, hypertext, and embodied feminist criticism

by Carolyn Guertin

SUBJECT TO EMBODIMENT : Rethinking Embodiment, Presence and the Body

by Nedine Kachornnamsong

Gothenburg University, ISSN: 1651-4769

With an objective to expand knowledge of physicality as an artistic tool, this paper explores the terms of... more With an objective to expand knowledge of physicality as an artistic tool, this paper explores the terms of phenomenological embodiment from the different perspective that is commonly applied in art theory. By presenting current researches from the field of new media development, the concept of embodiment is broadened from theory and practice of minimal art. The sense of  presence and the body in relation to human experience is also investigated for a better understanding in how we perceive and interact with the world. By conducting a research-in-practice, the outcome of the finding is also implemented into an interactive installation which focuses on an embodied experience.

Il Suono degli Oggetti Smarriti

by Ilaria Vanni

This article reflects upon the exhibition Sound of Missing Objects, which I set up as a collaborative project with... more This article reflects upon the exhibition Sound of Missing Objects, which I set up as a collaborative project with Jonathan Jones and Panos Couros at Perfomance Space, Sydney in 2003.

re-visioning power

by Zanita Anuar

published in NUS museum exhibition catalogue 2011

meanderings on the attempts of Zulkifli yusoff the iconic visual appraiser of politics, history and Malay identity meanderings on the attempts of Zulkifli yusoff the iconic visual appraiser of politics, history and Malay identity

Narratives, Photographs and the Experience of Memory

by Margaret Hills de Zárate

project:rendition

by Joy Garnett

Photoessay of collaboration by JC2, in Public Culture, Vol.22, no.1 (Winter 2010) Duke University Press.

project:rendition was a collaborative project that incorporated elements of installation, printed agitprop, audio, and... more project:rendition was a collaborative project that incorporated elements of installation, printed agitprop, audio, and performance into an interactive environment. The project was produced by JC2, a collective comprising the artists Joy Episalla, Joy Garnett, Carrie Moyer, and Carrie Yamaoka. The exhibition took place in May–June 2007 at Momenta Art, an artist-run charitable institution in Brooklyn that promotes emerging and underrepresented artists.

project:rendition used the enactment of “rendering” to examine military policies hidden from public view. The term extraordinary rendition refers to the clandestine kidnapping and extradition of suspected terrorists to countries where they can be interrogated and tortured beyond the reach of the U.S. judicial system. While extraordinary rendition is generally reserved for supposed highvalue suspects, subtler forms of political repression, stateinduced terror, and disenfranchisement are common, insidious, and long-standing. Throughout history, similar acts have proved effective means of rendering individuals and entire populations politically mute or existentially invisible.

Ayse Erkmen's "Plan B" at the 54th Venice Biennial

by Berin Golonu

The Godfather of Technology and Art: An Interview with Billy Klüver

by Garnet Hertz

in "Science, She Loves Me" edited by Mary-Anne Moser, Banff Centre Press, 2011

Art and science have encountered each other since the beginning of time, in all kinds of interesting ways - cave... more Art and science have encountered each other since the beginning of time, in all kinds of interesting ways - cave paintings, medical history, architecture or Leonardo da Vinci. One of the more recent encounters - and most relevant for the field of electronic art - was in 1967, when Billy Klüver, an electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories, founded Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) with Robert Rauschenberg. The artists involved in the project are now legendary in the contemporary art world but little is known of this initiative in the contemporary science communications world. Perhaps no wonder—the engineer at the helm decries any effort to force art and science into a meaningful union.

Find out more about Billy Klüver in this interview with Garnet Hertz from 1995.

'A labrynthine exploration of the human life cycle' - January 2012

by Rosalind Ormiston

Art Exhibition review
Published January 2012 online in CASSONE
www.cassone-art.com

“Gestures of Happiness” in Sophie Calle’s Trilogy of Desire

by Gabriella Calchi-Novati

'Performance Paradigm', issue 7 (July 2011) - IMAGES OF HAPPINESS

"Biopolitics on Screen": Aernout Mik's Moving-Image Installations

by Gabriella Calchi-Novati

Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image
Issue 2 - December 2011

Letter about "El Chaco" meteorite

by Alejandro López

This is a letter made by academic researchers on cultural astronomy to reject the proyect of move the "El Chaco" meteorite from Argentina to Germany for use in the art show, Documenta 13. The transfer of this cultural treasure, without the support of the indigenous peoples as central players in this project, shows a serious lack of consideration of the inhabitants of the area.

It is very important your adhesion and the adhesion of your institution to stop this. If you wish help us please send me: name, identification number, academic degree, institution.

This is a letter made by academic researchers on cultural astronomy to reject the proyect of move the "El... more This is a letter made by academic researchers on cultural astronomy to reject the proyect of move the "El Chaco" meteorite from Argentina to Germany for use in the art show, Documenta 13. The transfer of this cultural treasure, without the support of the indigenous peoples as central players in this project, shows a serious lack of consideration of the inhabitants of the area.

Elemental Constructions: Women artists and sculpture in the expanded field

by Susan Best

Australia and New Zealand Journal of Art 1.2 (2000): 147-61

In the 1990s, there was a strong current running through the work of a number of Australian women artists that is best... more In the 1990s, there was a strong current running through the work of a number of Australian women artists that is best captured by the notion of the ‘elemental.’ The list of artists could include: Joan Grounds, Simone Mangos, Joan Brassil, Joyce Hinterding, Judy Watson, Anne Graham, Jennifer Turpin, Lauren Berkowitz and Janet Laurence. The idea of the elements or the elemental, in turn, runs through the work of a number of philosophers who can be described as part of the French Phenomenological tradition: Gaston Bachelard, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, and Luce Irigaray. In this article, I examine a selection of installations and sculptural works in relation to these ‘philosophical elements.’

La Fiber-Art di Silvia Beccaria

by Laura Vanetti

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