My teacher phoned me up to say I was short-listed yesterday, which I think is a riot because what I've done is practically anti-art. I can't draw, paint, sculpt or actually create something with talent so I came up with this abomination.
I took a 2mx2m square of fresh, unstretched canvas to the city, and left it on a pavement. It is in all simplicity, representative of traditional art. Some people walked on it. A lot avoided it. Very few stopped and wondered at it. Voila - an analogy!
After filming that in different places I 'found' myself a train seat (via semi-legal means, I swear ahah) and upholstered it with the trodden canvas. Stuck a few spraypainted paradoxes on it and then left that in public. People did their thing, and I was there to film it. The seat is a public object, belonging to no-one. The main thrust behind it all is that I did not create the artwork - the audience did. They chose to interact with it (step on/abuse/laugh/sit on/kick it), and all I did was document it. Public art, really.
The film is presented with david attenborough-esque voiceover, talking about the art as an animal trying to survive in our post-modern age of cities and public transport. Ideally, it is projected on the set-up below.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/42737852/
Here's a few when it was still a train seat
Old guys take a seat
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35816639/
Girls see me filming, laugh then pose
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35816689/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35816713/
Footy riot (people sat in the middle of the field, fight ensued)
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35816456/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35816485/
I took a 2mx2m square of fresh, unstretched canvas to the city, and left it on a pavement. It is in all simplicity, representative of traditional art. Some people walked on it. A lot avoided it. Very few stopped and wondered at it. Voila - an analogy!
After filming that in different places I 'found' myself a train seat (via semi-legal means, I swear ahah) and upholstered it with the trodden canvas. Stuck a few spraypainted paradoxes on it and then left that in public. People did their thing, and I was there to film it. The seat is a public object, belonging to no-one. The main thrust behind it all is that I did not create the artwork - the audience did. They chose to interact with it (step on/abuse/laugh/sit on/kick it), and all I did was document it. Public art, really.
The film is presented with david attenborough-esque voiceover, talking about the art as an animal trying to survive in our post-modern age of cities and public transport. Ideally, it is projected on the set-up below.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/42737852/
Here's a few when it was still a train seat
Old guys take a seat
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35816639/
Girls see me filming, laugh then pose
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35816689/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35816713/
Footy riot (people sat in the middle of the field, fight ensued)
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35816456/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35816485/