Ana Mendieta, Silueta Series, 1970s, various locations
Richard Long, A Line Made by Walking, 1967
Richard Long, A Line in Scotland, 1981
Richard Long, Heaven and Earth Exhibition at the Tate Gallery, 2009
Richard Long, Heaven and Earth Exhibition at the Tate Gallery, 2009
EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA STUDIO Topic Three: Space
“Space is a practiced place” Michel de Certeau (quote in Suderburg p. 19)
Artists and Movements Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Peter Campus, Frank Gillette and Ira Schneider, Gary Hill, Bill Viola, Mary Lucier, Steve McQueen, Isaac Julien, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Pipilotti Rist, Doug Aitken, Eija-Liisa Ahtilla, Shirin Neshat, Kutlug Ataman, Julian Rosenfeld, Diana Thater, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Stan Douglas, Dan Graham, Joan Jonas, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Robert Smithson
Key Concepts & Genres Site specificity (changing definitions of the term) Late 1960s / early 1970s: “a real place” –phenomenological Robert Smithson’s site and non-site Institutional critique: site as “cultural framework” – social/institutional Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc, 1981-89
“Functional site” – discursive These are overlapping and competing definitions
Robert Smithson, Site and Nonsite A Nonsite (Franklin, New Jersey), 1968 Spiral Jetty, 1970
Richard Serra, Splashings, 1968-9
Richard Serra, Splashings, 1968-9
Richard Serra, Gutter Splash Two Corner Cast, 1992
Richard Serra, Tilted Arc, 1981
Martha Schwartz, Jacob Javits Plaza, 1996
Doug Aitken, Sleepwalkers, New York, 2007
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 1984-1985
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, 1988
Krzysztof Wodiczko, The Hiroshima Projection, 1999
Krzysztof Wodiczko, The Tijuana Projection, at Centro Cultural de Tijuana, 2001
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Warsaw Projection, 2005
Media artists as “urbanists” and “translators” who “make visible the invisible” (Willis) Installation as sculpture, architecture, environment, performance, collection and arrangement of objects, media Gesamtkunstwerk Wunderkammern / cabinets de curiosité / Kunstkammern Expanded cinema / intermedia environments
Frank Gilette & Ira Schneider, Wipe Cycle, 1969
Bruce Nauman, Live/Taped Video Corridor, 1970
Bill Viola, Room for St. John of the Cross, 1983
Bill Viola, The Stopping Mind, 1991
Bill Viola, The Veiling, 1994
Bill Viola, Stations, 1994
Bill Viola, The Crossing, 1996
Bill Viola, Pneuma, 1994-2009
Pipilotti Rist, Apple Tree Innocent On Diamond Hill, 2003
Pipilotti Rist, Saffron Flower or Fall Time Less, 2004
Pipilotti Rist, Gravity, Be My Friend, 2007
Pipilotti Rist, Pour Your Body Out, 2008
Kutluğ Ataman, Stefan’s Room, 2004
Julian Rosefeldt, Asylum, 2001-2