Lesson 5

Medium specificity

-norms - basic elements of a medium - limits creativity (we are made to follow others)

-subjectivity decreases

-rules increases (bounded) 

-simplified judgment GOOD/BAD

Intermedia

Critique:

Traditional art- compartmentalization

                         - raw materials

                         - everyday objects

Decomposition *Dick Higgins

- describe the overuse of norms

Experimental work

-x based on history

-artist should give a meaning

-critique norms

 -highlight their power

 -will finally go back to norms again

Dada (1920) <--> Fluxus (1970s) --> intermedia

Compare and contrast of DADA and FLUXUS

Fluxus (Germany, U.S.) <--> internationalism <--> Dada (Paris, France)

*Equal value of all materials

F - breakdown (theatre)

D - collage [experiment with painting and photography]

D - idea of playing and gaming, performance

F - art is a form to play

     nonsense is a meaning

     highlight more on gaming

D - aggressive communication - political

F - fun, bring art to everyday life

     x political

Video tape [Performance back stage]

- intermedia

- everyday objects   ]- clues (how to look, how to analyze)

- Time

- seeing must inform by concept cannot simply telling GOOD/BAD

- replying language of cinema - box-liked framing

- frontal view - feeling of painting

Theatre - features of theatre?

- focus

- one main character    ] - critique one single focus

- parallel action             ] - critique one single focus

Nam June Paik's Video

- white background + Dust & Scratches + No audio

- about our consciousness but not contents

- cinema - light off + projection

- projected our dream & fantasy

  - develop to storytelling mechanism

Robert Rauscenberg [ late1960s ] Open Score - open work

--> "9 evenings"

- technology and art played together

- look at & listen!

- 2 layers of transposition

  - place - listening --> looking at audiences

- mediation

- sport performance + sound

- things become sth else step by step

e.g. audiences become obj of seeing when they are on screen

[through camera] -> [framing, focua on specific things] -> [camera can see in dark] -> [angles]

[CRITIQUE by Open Score]

Performance

- script

- must have a guide

- automatism

- open work

- it can be an improvisation of script