29.4.07

Perspective



This is an aerial photo I used to use as my laptop desktop, centered against a white background. I'm posting it because it gains artistic value in the same way Untitled (Greenhouse) and the Shikisai shirts do. Through a change in perspective, the suburban landscape becomes art. For example, we look at balance and geometries of urban planning like the composition of a Thiebaud canvas.

Unfortunately, I've since lost track of where I found the photo.

26.4.07

Untitled (Greenhouse)


Music influences plants.* But Peter Coffin doesn't really seem to care. The exhibition notes of his installation piece Untitled (Greenhouse) describe Coffin's greater goal:

"This artistic project does not seek to validate scientific theories, as much as it establishes a creative dialogue between different forms of organic life and creates a site for a direct and ongoing engagement with plants that is intuitive, improvised, and undetermined."

In this greenhouse musicians play music for the vegetation using their own instruments or the electric guitar, keyboard, and microphones hidden amongst the leaves. Untitled (Greenhouse) continues an exploration of the theme introduced in the blog's prior post: the creation of art by presenting non-art objects in an aesthetic context. Some people don't think it's art. They should go back to the Armory Show.



On display at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris 01 FÉV - 11 MAR

*See:
"On the Reported Effects of Sound on the Growth of Plants"
Richard M. Klein, Pamela C. Edsall
BioScience, Vol. 15, No. 2, Biotelemetry (Feb., 1965), pp. 125-126

Concept, Craft


Noto Hirotsugo and Noto Miyu, husband and wife, masters of monochrome, attempt to create color from black ink and white cloth. They call their work Shikisai, or colorful. They make this color by coalescing three independent design elements:

1. Quotidian actions/images
2. Medium
3. Interactivity

Today, I wore a t-shirt with a black silkscreen of venetian blinds from which a cord hangs. If you pull the cord, the blinds are drawn.



Notably, the design team behind shikisai is an acknowledgement of a disparity that exists between concept and craft. Hirotsugu is trained in design, his wife Miyo specialized in the technical aspects of clothing at KDI Parsons. Big difference.