Doug Aitken’s art is being shown on top of the Hirshhorn Museum. By having the ability to project images in a large scale format, the artist was able to use the museum space outside the traditional white box or a black box idea.
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This piece shows how an illusion created by a projection that can be used in conjunction with performances. Rather than projection existing as part of a scenic design, it functions as one of the elements for a performance. Both the dancers and the projection exaggerate each other.
Interactive Urban Projection in Amsterdam on developed by students of the MediaLAB and EscaptionLAB. The documentation of this piece was not only able to just function as showing what the piece looks like, but it was also successful in showing how the public reacted and interacted with the piece.
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This is a documentation of urban projection by Mariantonios. Instead of a creating a projection that serves as a stationary sculpture, Mariantonis created an animation that emphasizes on the element of movement. Mariantonios describes the group as “a zine, created in early 2010, that complies in a book expressions and thoughts of young artists.” more here
It is a social survey performance. Not only are the first-hand experiences of the participants are important, but the experiences that the viewers have with the documentation of the piece is a significant factor as well.
For this project, I made a questionnaire for three people: the interviewer, the interviewee, a stranger who is willing to participate, and the interviewee’s friend.
These are the questions:
Four questions that were asked to the interviewees:
-What is your first impression of the interviewer?
– Based on the interviewer’s first impression, would you like to know more about the interviewer?
– How would you describe yourself?
– Do you think how other people describe your personality matches how you describe your self?
Two questions that were asked to the friends of interviewees:
-How would you describe your friend (the interviewee)?
– Do you think your friend’s first impression describes his/her real personality?
Two questions that were asked to the interviewer:
-What is your first impression of the interviewee?
– Based on the interviewee’s first impression, would you like to know more about the interviewee?
Throughout this experience, I wanted to engage with more people, to see if people are able to objectively judge themselves, and to know if a first impression is reliable. Choosing to let the viewer to have their own judgments to the performance, I left the documentation in its rough form rather than analyzing it.
The performance was successful, because I was able to meet new various people, and show the viewers the result of different traits. The performance was unsuccessful in a way that it didn’t show many people enough to make a valid conclusion. I was not able to push this performance any further to anything more than psychological research.
JR has created the world’s largest participatory art project. When the artist first started the project, it was considered illegal public art, but as the Paris City Hall covered its building with his photos, it became “official”. The public is not only the audience but also the subject of the piece.
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Banksy is a publicly popular and well-known street artists. For this performance/installation, the artist made a painting that looks like that belongs to an art museum and installed it a the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read more.
Adrian Kondratowicz was able to create an ultimate collaborative public art by simply distributing pink polka dot trash bags to his Harlem neighborhood. Read more.
Felipe Castelblanco is a Columbian artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. For “We Paint Houses” project, the artist put up street advertisement-“We paint houses, and you set the price!” The people who called the number got a painting of their houses that was done by laborers, instead of painting the walls of the houses. Read more.