marks, forts & confessions

art making and the construction of space and place

Marks marking space/marking within space

William KentridgeEllen Gallagher

Alejandro CasaziThomas Baumgartel

Mark making

• What does it mean to mark with paint/ print/ charcoal?

• An anecdote about de Kooning

William Kentridge

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpamsEdCbX8&feature=related

Ellen Gallagher

Alejandro Casazi

Thomas Baumgartel

question

• How do you think mark making can be conceptual?

• What spaces do you see around you that are defined by the marks they carry?

Fortsa room within a room/space as memory, light, and economy

Do-Ho SuhErnesto Neto

Carlos Cruz DiezKeith Haring (Pop Shop)

Do-Ho Suh

• http://video.pbs.org/video/1237715781

Ernesto Neto

Carlos Cruz Diez

Keith Haring (Pop Shop)

question

• How do the ways that those artists constructed their spaces…their forts…change your relationship to seemingly everyday material and rooms?

Confessionsexpanding immaterial spaces/ritual and remembering

Marina AbramovićGabriel Orozco

Rachel WhitereadTracy Emin

Marina Abramović

Tracy Emin

Rachel Whiteread

Gabriel Orozco

http://video.pbs.org/video/1237723563

question

• How does your engagement with the built environment constitute an “event”?

• By that I mean, how are you creating a moment within which you are asking others to encounter ideas that are not their own. How do you set up the relationship between yourself and the viewer? Is there intimacy there?

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