Anna Francis - 'Working from home.' - 3.2.18

WORKING FROM HOME 

Anna Francis 

Cross - level Lecture 2 

Why do you make art? 

To offer something. "Cultural offering" . To present ideas and opinions. To research and increase awareness. 

- Projects that deal with homes and housing. Notions of home. Purpose.

Gordon Matta-Clarke . Splitting, 1974. New -York 

-GORDON MATTA-CLARKE - Architectural training.

- Robert Moses - Slum clearing 1950s/60s - Political commentary. 

- The great social housing swindle. Dispossesion. Cutting Social housing. 

- Matta-Clarke making work against swindle. 'ANARCHITECTURE' 1974 - Anarchy/Architecture. 

- Personal or political? 

CORNELIA PARKER

- Thirty pieces of silver 1988-89 

- Materiality/Anti-matter " re-assessed in the light of transformation." 

-Breach of trust - When strong meaningful things are broken/weakened. 

RACHEL WHITEREAD 

Rachel Whiteread -- House , 1993. Image courtesy of the artist. 

 - Artangel - excrescent council - neutral piece. No political agenda. 

- An emblem for the mode of living . Revealing the home inside the house.

- Home as a repository for life. Questioning initial intentions.

DOES ART HAVE TO BE USEFUL ? 

- Joseph Beuys - Social Sculptures . Performance 1974. - It perhaps doesn't need to be useful but it can tell us a lot of things.

-EVERYONE IS AN ARTIST

- Creativity = Capital - 1983 - Creativity + Capital both readily available in our daily lives. 

Arts and Crafts Movement

- John Ruskin, study of rocks and ferns. Crossmount, Perthshire. 

- William Morris - Poet, designer, and political theorist. 

- In response to the mechanized and industrialized world - production and labour. The worker not just the machine - But a being with will and independence. 

- Damien Hirst's next conceptual feat? - Painting his own paintings. 

- Alistair Hudson - MIMA - Middlesborough Institute of Art. 

- Recognized art as an addition to society and culture not a part of it. ' Art has become useless.' 

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE ART YOU MAKE ? 

- Bob and Roberta Smith - 'Art is your human right' - Activism. 

- ALFREDO JAAR - Lights in the city , Montreal - 1999.

- Participatory 

- Using status and opportunity to think about their own role and purpose.