Socially Engaged Art part 3

Tehching (Sam) Hsieh

July, 1983 STATEMENT We, LINDA MONTANO and TEHCHING HSIEH, plan to do a one year performance. We will stay together for one year and never be alone. We will be in the same room at the same Nme, when we are inside. We will be Ned together at the waist with an 8 foot rope. We will never touch each other during the year. The performance will begin on July 4, 1983, at 6 p.m., and conNnue unNl July 4, 1984, at 6 p. m. —Linda Montano —Tehching Hsieh


(pronounced dur-‐ching shay)

Cage piece 1978-‐79


Time Clock Piece 1980-‐81


Outdoor Piece 1981-‐82 Tehching Hsieh’s work is oVen referred to as Endurance Art, which is generally performed over a long period of Nme that may test the physical or emoNonal stamina of the arNst or audience.

Final QuesNons? Comments?

Marina Abramović Imponderalia 1977

Imponderalia 1977

Working in a wide range of media, Marina Abramović is best known for her provocaNve performance works, employing her own body as both subject and medium.

Marina Abramović

Rela=on in Time 1977 2010

Rela=on in Time 1977 2010

Between 1976 and 1988, Abramović collaborated with German photographer and performance arNst Ulay to create performance works that explore such binaries as male and female, ac)ve and passive, through the execuNon of repeNNve, exhausNng, and oVen painful acNons.

The Lovers 1988

In 1988, Ulay and Abramovic decided to end their relaNonship and to mark this with a performance, which became the legendary endpoint of their collaboraNon. AVer years of negoNaNons with the Chinese authoriNes, the arNsts got the permission to carry out 'The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk', in which they started to walk from different ends of the Chinese Wall in order to meet in the middle and say good-‐bye to each other. Their trip took 90 days to complete.

Marina Abramović

The Ar=st Is Present 1970’s 2010

Marina Abramović The Ar=st Is Present 1970’s 2010

Amir Baradaran

Marina Abramović

Ulay’s surprise visit!

Joseph Beuys

“I Like America and America Likes Me” 1974

Joseph Beuys

“I Like America and America Likes Me” 1974

Happenings

Joseph Beuys

Explaining PainNngs to a Dead Hare

PROJECT ROW HOUSES

History: Project Row Houses was founded in 1993 by arNst and community acNvist Rick Lowe along with James Be7son, Bert Long, Jesse Lo:, Floyd Newsum, Bert Samples, and George Smith. They sought to establish a posiNve, creaNve and transformaNve presence in this historic community.

Located in Houston’s Northern Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-‐American neighborhoods, Project Row Houses is founded on the principle that art and the community it creates can be the foundaNon for revitalizing depressed inner-‐city neighborhoods. The Northern Third Ward, has long been plagued by severe unemployment, teenage pregnancy, crumbling infrastructure, and drug trafficking. Addressing this situaNon, Project Row Houses provides programs that encompass neighborhood revitalizaNon, community service and educaNon.

Seed money came from the NaNonal Endowment for the Arts and from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham FoundaNon. The director of the Menil CollecNon gave his staff Mondays off to help renovate. Chevron redid the outside of a dozen buildings. Hundreds of volunteers pitched in to clear trash and sweep up used needles, hang wallboard and forNfy porches. A local church adopted a house, and so did people and families from the neighborhood.

Rick Lowe, founder of PRH

About: Project Row Houses (PRH) is a community-‐based arts non-‐profit organizaNon in Houston’s northern Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African American neighborhoods. Founded in 1993 as a result of the vision of local African-‐American arNsts wanNng a posiNve creaNve presence in their own community. Central to the vision of project row houses is the social role of art as seen in neighborhood revitalizaNon, historic preservaNon, community service, and youth educaNon.

The programs of project row houses are built around Five Pillars inspired by the work of internaNonally renowned arNst John Biggers and his principles concerning the components of row house communiNes: 1.Art and Crea)vity 2. Educa)on 3. Social Safety Nets 4. Architecture 5. Sustainability .

Rick Lowe, founder of Project Row Houses tried to think afresh what it meant to be a truly poliNcal arNst, beyond devising the familiar agitprop, gallery decoraNon and plop-‐art-‐style public sculpture. He considered what the German arNst Joseph Beuys once described as “the enlarged concep=on of Art, which includes every human ac=on.” Life itself might be a work of art, Mr. Lowe realized: art can be the way people live.

And the Third Ward could be his canvas. He was inspired by John Biggers, the late African-‐American muralist who painted black neighborhoods of shotgun houses like the ones on Holman Street and showed them to be places of pride and community, not poverty and crime. “It hit me,” Mr. Lowe recalled, “that we should find an area like the one that Biggers painted that was historically significant and bring it to life.”

Shotguns By John Biggers

Oil on canvas,1987

“People interested in housing and social services have a narrow focus. From a developer’s standpoint, the houses we’ve built are not cost-‐effec=ve. But to me, they’re not just housing. They tell a story about a community.”

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Kaomi Vazquez (senior) Urban Slang Workshop

2013

The Aristocrats 2013

By Nina Pankov (sophomore)

Performance Art Unit

Other estimates state the number is closer to 290 deaths per week in Mexico… Fyi: An average of 170 people are killed each week in the USA’s gun-related deaths (this figure takes non-drug war deaths into consideration as well)

Pedro Reyes

Palas por pistolas (pistols into spades) 2008

In 2008 Reyes collected 1,527 firearms From the city of Culiacán, a city plagued by drug kingpins.

Pedro Reyes


1,527 pistolas 1,527 palas 1,527 árboles

Pedro Reyes


1. People bring a gun 2. 1 gun=a voucher for an electronic store 3. The weapons were steamrolled into a flat sheet (at a military base) 4. The metal sheet is melted at a foundry 5. The metal is re-cast into shovels. 6. The shovels are assembled 7. The shovels are used to plant trees in public schools in Culiacán

Pedro Reyes


“THIS ‘RITUAL’ HAS A PEDAGOGICAL (educational) PURPOSE OF SHOWING HOW AND AGENT OF DEATH CAN BECOME AN AGENT OF LIFE.”

Pedro Reyes Studied architecture

in the 90’s

Started an experiemental

project space called “Torre De Los Vientos” from 1996-‐2002

à basically a

wacky space where you could do fun and odd projects

Are these ….just shovels?

Palas por pistolas (pistols into spades)

People bring a gun 1 gun=a voucher for an electronic store The weapons were steamrolled into a flat sheet (at a military base) The melted at a foundry And recast as shovels, which were used to plant trees in public schools in Culiacán PLANTED 1,527 TREES Since then, the shovels get exhibited around the world and are continued to be used to plan trees around the world.

Pedro reyes

Imagine Una proyecto en la Cuidad Juarez, con 6700 armas

And the project continues!

Pedro Reyes


Pedro reyes


Pedro Reyes


Pedro Reyes


Meanwhile….at 42nd street and 1st ave…

Purposes of the united naNons

How many nations participate? What do they decide? What do they DO???

the People’s united naNons (p)un

Over 200 ordinary people selected by Pedro Reyes and the Queens Museum Come together to represent the 192 nations of the UN.

Pedro Reyes

(p)Un The People’s United Nations 2013

Pedro Reyes


Pedro Reyes


Pedro Reyes


What keeps the (real) United Nations from actually getting anything done?

Pedro Reyes

Featuring Urban Bush Women, A dance, poetry, and performance art group!

What country (ies) would you be qualified to represent at the

People’s United Nations? What are two things that you would make a

priority to bring up?

The Laundromat Project

….next year? hmp://laundromatproject.org/

Art Hist AXer school Wed June 1st 2:45-‐3:15

1.   Nyasiah 2.   Gissell 3.   Ta)ana 4.   Michelle 5.   Myar 6.   Kevin 7.   Taeron 8.   Ruhith 9.   Joie 10.  Kenny 11.  Rasha 12.  Lensei 13.  Brianna

1.   Ar)e 2.   Nawal 3.   Nyle 4.   Tina 5.   Amina 6.   Sofia 7.   Sam AYY 8.   Alannis 9.   Jakara 10.  Vicky PT 11.  Jus)n 12.  RD-‐D2 13.  Marie 14.  Raphael 15.  Zenzile 16.  Arvin

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Education

Socially Engaged Art part 3