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Fiona Banner Presentation

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Split Nude, 2007, 2090x1340 mm Ink, transfer lettering and household paint on board

Still from Pranayama Organ, 2021 HD Video with soundtrack 10.26 minutes

Standing Nude, 2006 Graphite on Paper, 70.5x104 in

Runway, 2017 Hellicopter rotator blades with text inscription

Shy Nude or Magnolia Nude, 2006 Graphite on paper, 38x56.8 in

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"Note to Self"

"Note to Self" is an installation employing fabric, text, and paper to create a room inviting visitors to explore self-forgiveness and redemption. Initially inspired by a critique of self-help culture (the self-help industrial complex) it combines satire with genuine affirmations. The installation includes stress balls and "notes to self," labeled "warning: emotional contagion" at the entrance.

This work is influenced by Janet Kraynak's essay on Bruce Nauman's Environments, delving into spectator participation and the concept of the "programmed society." It raises questions about control and participation, and how the "manipulative power rests upon the relative "success" of the system, as well as its deviousness: the benefits and pleasures it affords and, as such, the needs it seemingly fulfills, all the while eschewing overt oppression." (Touraine)

Kraynak's observations about technology and social media as forms of control find resonance in the installation. Nauman's "Live / Taped" concept, relying on reproduction, mirrors today's digital experiences. The work offers a contrast to the digital realm often relied upon for health advice, by employing tactile and analog "diary notes."

#spacesfall2023

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A Room: idea board 2

Work my own (Daniela de la Fe)

“A slow return to baseline”

Ink on paper, 2023

Bruce Nauman

Life fly Lifes Flies from the portfolio of Leo Castelli's 90th Birthday, 1997

Etching

37 3/16 × 27 1/16 in | 94.5 × 68.7 cm

Edition of 90

Sean Landers

Detail of [sic], 1993

Ink on paper, dimensions variable, 451 leaves

11 × 8 1/2 in | 27.9 × 21.6 cm

Lot 268

Allen Ruppersberg

Preview Suite (10 Works), 1988

Lithographs

Christopher Wool

SPOKESMAN, page from the Black Book, 1989

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A Room: idea board 1

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QCQ IMAGE REFERENCE

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QCQ Bruce Nauman's Environments

"Nauman's environments consistently figure spectatorial participation as a strange, even alienating, encounter."

""I don't like to leave things open so that people feel they are in a situation they can play games with…. I think I am not really interested in game playing. Partly it has to do with control, I guess."

I suppose I chose both of these quotes because of the way the came together for me. This "corporeal dispossession" that Kraynak argues is an effect Nauman seems to be completely in "control" of. Yet, he argues this is not a game. That he wants to limit "the performance" of the spectator so that she may remember who is really in charge here. Yet, isn't the act of seduction into these confines a game in it of itself? It says, hey, you are an actor, you may even be the protagonist, but remember - you can't do shit without me. I wrote the lines and I directed the movement. And his reliance on a repetitive outcome is, essentially, game theory.

But what difference does it make to any space? And well, hey, isn't it life. This shifting between access and prevention. This unsettling set of arbitrary experiences in which "the goal of participation is not entirely clear.

Kraynak goes onto write about the shift that occurs, where are begins to become less of an assault and more of a hug. I think this might be because the reality of technology has already set in - we all need one - and yet she's not wrong with how it all sort of masks this economic relationship. Because what sells more than perceived comfort?

Of course, it's impossible to not consider social media as this "tacit form of control in which reciprocity is all but guaranteed and desires and will are exploited, becoming, in effect, forms of submission-or dependency." And thus, we are here, officially. The programmed society. Indeed, this coerced inclusion masks the overt oppression as we all come passive participants in our own domination. This also finds its connection in Nauman's work as it is "Live / Taped" It relies on the filter of reproduction to exist. It rings all too real.

Kraynak then finally get's to the mean of what she's actually interested in, which is how do Nauman's mechanism's not only filter experience but render it largely unmanageable.

Well - nothing is more personally unmanageble then reading Jean Meynaud speak to the absolute sad reality of the day. Beauty, morality, truth etc are all secondary (if that) to the optimization of performance. And knowledge is thoroughly exteriorizing itself while wisdom seems nowhere to be found. Indeed - whoever is wealthy has the best chance of being right.

I suppose my question is, does Nauman jerk off to these videos when he's alone or in a group?

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Static Video: Wood Frame #2

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Static Video: Wooden Frame #3

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Static Videos: Wooden Frame #1

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Photo documentation: Wooden Frame

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Process / Construction: Wooden Frame

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Week 11 Index

1. de-Table-ization: Process  #1 / #2 / #3

2. de-Table-ization: Final 

3. Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Line, Circle, Line 

4. Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Frame and Structure 

5. Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Still Live  #1 / #2 / #3

6. Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Research  #1 / #2 / #3

7. Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Process  #1 / #2

8. Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Final 

9. The Artist is Present: Research Anya Gallaccio / Cady Noland / Robert Smithson / Haim Steinbach / Rachel Whiteread

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Structuring the Body : Final

A Bed To Call My Own

This work is a quest for autonomy. A challenge of the past and perhaps a reorientation of primordial images. It is in one sense a step away from the shared beds I've slept in. Beds that have been the frame for a deleterious denial of self. In bed, I say the prayers that keep me safe, alone I imagine, my energy is pure yet the nightmares still come. The fearful are apt to perceive fearfully. I still wake up in pools of sweat as I am still too inexperienced to avoid the tendency of becoming pointlessly preoccupied. Not all is lost! Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience.

In a single bed, I may spare myself from loneliness. In a single bed, I can sleep with the lights on. In a single bed, there is no shame in leaving a vibrator under your pillow. In a single bed, I may be one step closer to drifting off into a weightless sleep.

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The mattress with embroidery and text details flew off my car while transporting it to school. I only have a few low-quality images of what it was meant to look like and did not get a chance to document the piece as a finished work.

On either side of the mattress, I included text. One side read, "rest does not come from sleeping, but from waking." The opposite side read, "An achy idea turned into years of bed rest." On the sheet that I covered the mattress, I had stitched in an old dress shirt of my father's. It was emblematic of the male influences in my life and my quest to shake their emotional grasp. The sides of the sheet were pinned down. The pins represent the sudden pokes your dreams and nightmares give you.

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Structuring the Body

Process Images 2

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Structuring the Body

Process Images

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Still Live

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