EXTRAITS DE LECTURE EN LIEN AVEC MA PRATIQUE
Stephanie Rosenthal, Walking in my mind.
p. 10
"visual artists can contribute to our understanding or the human mind and address the question: 'Where and what is my Self ?'.
"ten immersive installations […] that can be read as translation of the human mind into physical form. It offers some of the different ways in which artists construct images of their owner universal minds - which, from their part, draw the visitor into the artistic construct."
"These installations are the outcome if the artists' ability to create real, physically accessible 'mental' spaces that demand a response from the viewer. At the heart if the exhibition are works that envelop the visitor, making it all but impossible to distance oneself bodily from what one is seeing."
"Installations frequently involve viewers so that they become part of the work, an element on the composition, even a participant (…) Allan Kaprow famously called for participants rather than spectators for his 'environments' However, in this new role, the viewer could also by definition become an intruder,(…)"
p. 11
Quoting an email communication with the artist Thomas Hirschhorn : "I want my work to way into the mind of the spectator (the Other) … I want to create a dialogue or a confrontation in the mind of the Other. I see it as the noble task ot a work of art to link the creator's mind to the Other's mind. A work of art aims to enter and to occupy the mind of the Other."
p. 12
"In the midst of the Cavemanman labyrinth we find ourselves both tangled up in our own thoughts and confronted with the artist's thoughts."
Thomas Hirschhorn, interview with Paul Schmelzer, http//mnartists.org/work.do?rid=126081
" I believe there is the possibility to structure your mind in a cave with cavities where you put something inside, with garbage, with unspeakable things. We think there's no light on, we think they're forgotten ... it's a metaphor for the space in the mind"
"While Hirschhorn presents a three-dimensional collage made up of images taken from reality (objective mind), we also create our own reality (subjective mind) from the knowledge and experiences we bring to the piece, which might create what Hegel calls the 'absolute mind'."
"Like an installation, a studio can also be read as the reflection of a mental space.". In Hirschhorn's case, the materials leave this studio to become embedded in an environment that minimizes one's usual sense of being in a exhibition space. He creates the context for his materials and in effect makes up the fact that his work have left the context in which they were made."
"working in situ to avoid the problem of having to show works in a a context other than that in which they were created. By the same token, artists like Ilya Kabakov took their studios to the viewer in the form of installations to create the right context for for their art. This is done more explicitly by Gregor Schneider in his Haus Ur (…)"
p. 88-89 MARK MENDERS (NL)
"his ongoing project Self Portrait as a building. All his work since then has contributed to this 'self-portrait', which is neither a likeness of the biological Mark Menders, nor of any actual person, and which seldom assumes any architectural attributes."
"Manders describes the project as consisting of 'objects that relate to language'. Originally he had planned a written self-portrait, a 'book without a beginning or end', which was to be 'formed collectively by seven imaginary persons in a building'. Eventually, Manders realised that he wanted to work with something more abstract than words, and concluded that it would be better to use objects."
"The artist Mark Manders is a fictional person. He is a character who lives in a logically designed and constructed world, which consists of thoughts that are congealed at their moment of greatest intensity."
