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Project #6 Found & Made SPACE and PLACE

Project #6 Found & Made SPACE and PLACE. Contemplate the words: space and place.

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Project #6 Found & Made SPACE and PLACE

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  1. Project #6 Found & Made SPACE and PLACE

  2. Contemplate the words: space and place Conjure up all of the private and public experiences you associate with particular spaces and places – from the supermarket, to your house, to Baltimore city, to Mexico, to outerspace – places you’ve been to or places you’ve dreamt of going to. Consider REAL places (in our concrete “reality” or world) vs. IDEALIZED places (Disneyworld?) vs. FANTASY spaces (video games).

  3. Writing Exercise • What would placemean to you if you weren’t human? … For example, imagine you are an ant, an elephant, a sea urchin, or a bird in captivity?

  4. Writing Exercise • What space is sacred for you – one you find safe or comforting to inhabit? Where is this located? Or does is this space place-less or site-less? (lack a physical location?)

  5. Writing Exercise • What space do you find terrifying? Describe it.

  6. Writing Exercise • When you hear or read the word place, do you imagine them to be in the present or in the past? Are they places you’ve already been or intend to go?

  7. Writing Exercise • Imagine one place you go to frequently. What does this place look like in your memory (mind’s eye)? If you can, go to this place right now & experience the physical presence of this place. • How do these two spaces, your mind’s eye vs. concrete reality, differ?

  8. Writing Exercise • If you had an avatar and it could take you to a new territory, what space would you navigate and what would this new place look like? • What would it feel like? • What materials would the terrain be made up of? • What would the temperature and weather feel like? • What would the landscape look like?

  9. Writing Exercise • Imagine yourself to be an outsider – what kind of place does our earth or humanity look like or feel like to you? • What about from the view outside of our galaxy?

  10. Writing Exercise • How would the concepts space and place differ if you were: the president? in prison? a hermit? a nomad? homeless?

  11. Artists embracingSPACEandPLACEusing Found or Made Materials

  12. Laurie Simmons

  13. The Instant Decorator (Lavender Bathroom), 2004

  14. House Underneath (Reclining), 1998

  15. Room Underneath (Red), 1998

  16. Study for Long House (Red Shoes), 2003

  17. Portrait of Lena Dunham by Laurie Simmons, W Magazine, November 2010.

  18. And . . .

  19. "En la barbaria no se llora (No Crying Allowed in the Babershop)," detail by Pepón Osorio Mixed media installation with barbers' chairs, photographs, objects and videos, dimensions variable

  20. "'No Crying Allowed in the Barber Shop'...it’s about recreating my memory. When I was five years old my father took me to get my first haircut right around the neighborhood. And what was meant to be a celebration became disastrous event. I was crying a lot, I was scared...What traumatized me wasn’t so much the haircut itself but the way that this barber dealt with my kind of hair...That experience was a combination of race and a right of passage into becoming a little man.” -Pepón Osorio

  21. "Safe House II, (Speak of Me as I Am)” 2003 Fred Wilson

  22. "I did the pieces in my mind right after September 11th. And it really was about that experience and just much more, about emotions and feelings. So that room is a virtual space- a state of mind, a kind of futile, ridiculous thought, wanting the world to go back the way it was before September 11th. And the pot, with the little bed and all, that sits there in the space is called 'Safe House II.' It’s another emotional space. A place to be safe." - Fred Wilson

  23. "Some/One” by Do-Ho Suh

  24. "Seattle Home” by Do-Ho Suh

  25. #6 REQUIREMENTSFound & Made SPACE and PLACE • Size: at least 30” all the way around (example: 3 x 12 x 15”) • Unique Site/Display/Format: consider where you want your Found & Made SPACE & PLACE artwork to live (it doesn’t have to be able to hang on the magnetic whiteboard in our classroom!). Consider the format and display of your SPACE and PLACE. Could it live inside an unsuspecting container such as a suitcase? Could it live in a small or hidden space that viewers discover only with time or patience or searching? • Atmospheric Perspective:foreground, middleground, background imply deep space & close-ups • Found Mixed Media and Found/Invented Textures • Two Focal Points: incorporate sight-lines or psychological lines to direct the viewer from one area of the work to another • Harmonious Palette:Analogous, Complementary, or Triad (plus black/white/grey)

  26. http://www.pbs.org/art21/films/placeFeatured Artists in pbs Art21 episode PLACE: Laurie AndersonPepón OsorioSally MannBarry McGee & Margaret KilgallenRichard Serra

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