I have been dragging my feet with blogging, but this one in particular. This is mostly because, I feel like, I am being overly critical of the artist/activist blur. I am huge component of Beuyisan theory, and the ideals of community based art. However, since then I think that the artist has to be more assertive, and do a bit more than a minor intervention at best. Or perhaps, use better rhetoric, or vernacular, in calling it a happening. I think artist really need to claim their vocabulary and use it efficiently.
Brigitte Jurack's lecture further proved this point. I felt the lecture was a little long. I found her work interesting, but really the work posed to me, more questions about post production and at times, authorship in so far as the communial work goes. Can the work be successful without the participants, I think not. While, I wouldn't go as far as to call this the death of the author, rather, I would consider it, a credits reel. Fine Artists, should they be highly conceptual, outsource their work, include participants (this statement does not necessarily include all interactive pieces). Not only in particular websites, but in professional lectures as well, I am not only speaking directly about Jurack's lecture but many of the lectures I have been to.
My honest opinions of Juracks work are mixed. I really enjoyed the deer with wax sculpture in so far as it was mildly curious with little sense of whimsy. I also enjoyed her figurative work, because they were whimsical with a sense of curiosity. The overall trend I found, was that from the work she showed, I found what I enjoyed about one I had almost the inverse reaction when she showed the next. It could have just been the fact that she gave the presentation from present to past, rather than past to present, so rather than her work becoming seemingly more cohesive, it became less so, which I found frustrating, and hard to follow, because there was no way to look at it without referencing what she had just shown, so it seemed like reading a book from back to front, where by the questions you would want to know the answers to, you didn't care so much for asking, because you already knew them.
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