Contemporary Art Concepts
Part 1:
Collaboration- When multiple parties come together to create or achieve a common goal. Without multiple participants, the final product would not be the same. Each person contributes in a significant way. Collaboration is an experience that leads to a product that would not be the same without the element of collaboration.
After reading the list of terms in the glossary, I started to think about how central collaboration is not only in the art world, but also in education. So much of what we are asking students to do is collaborate. What does it mean to collaborate? After thinking critically, I realized that collaborating means much more than just working together to solve a problem or to create something new. Collaboration is a process of creating something that would not be possible without the exact people and circumstances involved. While reading the Gude article, "Principles of Possibility: Considerations for a 21st-Century Art & Culture Curriculum", I thought about how to effectively teach students, we must move beyond standards in art education. At the core of authentic creation is the ability or opportunity to collaborate. Gude discusses the need for encountering difference, and collaboration naturally causes students to encounter difference. One cannot create a collaborative artwork without stepping beyond one's own perspective. Not only is imperative to create opportunity for students to experience work from multiple cultures and perspectives, it is also crucial to give students the opportunity to collaborate. This collaboration gives students the chance to experience another perspective in terms of actual creation. Collaboration requires discussion, brainstorming, compromising, listening, and problem solving. It is a manner of creating in which one must not only work with another artist, but must also listen to another artist.
Part 2:
I chose to explore the concept of collaboration by investigating the work of EcoArtTech. By definition, EcoArtTech embodies the concept of collaboration because it consists of multiple artists creating with a common goal in mind. Their work is centered around healing. The healing and rehabilitation of disturbed or traumatized zones of our earth. After exploring the work, it is evident that every element is driven by collaboration. Each and every project consists of multiple artists and scientists working together to bring light to an environmental problem. EcoArtTech is essentially working to solve a problem, such as bringing attention to suffering animals killed in meat and dairy production or microbial selfies that are created by historic food practices. To successfully create a work that conveys a message such as this, collaboration must occur. For instance, when working together on a project such as this, it is clear that objectives were made and then the team had to collaborate on how to meet the objectives through their creative process. The entire project has a poetic feel to it. Multiple voices and perspectives came together to create the projects included on the website. EcoArtTech personifies what it means to collaborate.
Part 3:
I thought about what collaboration means for the modern artist and immediately thought of Marina Abramović's The Artist is Present. Abramović is a performance artist that explores the relationship between the artist and the audience. The very basis of her work is a collaborative experience of the audience experience the artwork and therefore creating the artwork. Without the relationship between the audience and the artist, nothing would be created. The work depends on the element of collaboration, on two parties contributing to one piece. Abramović's work is emotion provoking and requires participants to take time to consider another human being. Abramović embodies the need for artists to collaborate not only with peers, but also with viewers. The art that is created from the exchange or collaboration between the artist and audience connection to my initial definition of art. Both parties in this work are contributing in a significant way and without both perspectives, the work could not exist.
See more of Abramović's work...The Artist is Present (2010)
Collaboration- When multiple parties come together to create or achieve a common goal. Without multiple participants, the final product would not be the same. Each person contributes in a significant way. Collaboration is an experience that leads to a product that would not be the same without the element of collaboration.
After reading the list of terms in the glossary, I started to think about how central collaboration is not only in the art world, but also in education. So much of what we are asking students to do is collaborate. What does it mean to collaborate? After thinking critically, I realized that collaborating means much more than just working together to solve a problem or to create something new. Collaboration is a process of creating something that would not be possible without the exact people and circumstances involved. While reading the Gude article, "Principles of Possibility: Considerations for a 21st-Century Art & Culture Curriculum", I thought about how to effectively teach students, we must move beyond standards in art education. At the core of authentic creation is the ability or opportunity to collaborate. Gude discusses the need for encountering difference, and collaboration naturally causes students to encounter difference. One cannot create a collaborative artwork without stepping beyond one's own perspective. Not only is imperative to create opportunity for students to experience work from multiple cultures and perspectives, it is also crucial to give students the opportunity to collaborate. This collaboration gives students the chance to experience another perspective in terms of actual creation. Collaboration requires discussion, brainstorming, compromising, listening, and problem solving. It is a manner of creating in which one must not only work with another artist, but must also listen to another artist.
Part 2:
I chose to explore the concept of collaboration by investigating the work of EcoArtTech. By definition, EcoArtTech embodies the concept of collaboration because it consists of multiple artists creating with a common goal in mind. Their work is centered around healing. The healing and rehabilitation of disturbed or traumatized zones of our earth. After exploring the work, it is evident that every element is driven by collaboration. Each and every project consists of multiple artists and scientists working together to bring light to an environmental problem. EcoArtTech is essentially working to solve a problem, such as bringing attention to suffering animals killed in meat and dairy production or microbial selfies that are created by historic food practices. To successfully create a work that conveys a message such as this, collaboration must occur. For instance, when working together on a project such as this, it is clear that objectives were made and then the team had to collaborate on how to meet the objectives through their creative process. The entire project has a poetic feel to it. Multiple voices and perspectives came together to create the projects included on the website. EcoArtTech personifies what it means to collaborate.
Part 3:
I thought about what collaboration means for the modern artist and immediately thought of Marina Abramović's The Artist is Present. Abramović is a performance artist that explores the relationship between the artist and the audience. The very basis of her work is a collaborative experience of the audience experience the artwork and therefore creating the artwork. Without the relationship between the audience and the artist, nothing would be created. The work depends on the element of collaboration, on two parties contributing to one piece. Abramović's work is emotion provoking and requires participants to take time to consider another human being. Abramović embodies the need for artists to collaborate not only with peers, but also with viewers. The art that is created from the exchange or collaboration between the artist and audience connection to my initial definition of art. Both parties in this work are contributing in a significant way and without both perspectives, the work could not exist.
The Artist Is Present, Marina Abramović (Yugoslav, born 1946) 2010. Performance.
See more of Abramović's work...The Artist is Present (2010)
Without the relationship between the audience and the artist, nothing would be created.
ReplyDeleteI realize I'm taking this out of context of this particular Abramovic piece but this statement begs the question, does all art need an audience to be activated?