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Eeading Lawrence Weiner: Material, Language, TIC-TAC-TOE by Gregor Stemmrich
Material and language
Lawrence Weiner’s work has a certain separation with works like Joseph Kosuth. He is not exploring language as a metaphor, which contains suggestions, a layer and layer behind the language itself. Lots of language-based artists are interested in the poetic and referential aspect of language. Lawrence Weiner is interested in the materiality of language and the physicality that language is capable of triggering. Therefore, the language becomes the material and mediation of the others. The others, which are mainly used as materials are often stone, wood, concrete etc. His works are like images; the viewers can see the materiality of the stone or a brick wall through language.
Why language? There’s two reasons base on Lawrence Weiner. First, it’s a personal choice without art context. Second, language as material is a criticism of traditional mediums. He cleared that using language is not the “dematerialized” form of art like conceptual artwork but still maintain the materialization of language like an object.
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Response on Ann Goldstein If It Looks Like a Duck and It Walks Like a Duck, It is Probably a Duck
Response on Ann Goldstein If It Looks Like a Duck and It Walks Like a Duck, It is Probably a Duck
What is Art? Each artists and audiences have their own version of answers. Lawrence Weiner defines art as “ the relationship of human beings to objects and objects to objects in relation to human beings. The way that human beings understand their relationships to materials always relates back to a human being’s use of it. If that's our activity as artists, then there is no other need for justification. It took a longtime to get that straight. Art is not a metaphor although it can function as metaphor in the culture sometimes.” Lawrence Weiner is a language-based artist. Language itself is a giant signifier system. He considers himself as a sculptor, and language is his material. The form of presentation of language is flexible. Language can be translated in different language; can be transformed into different size, physical material and color; can be attached on everywhere in different forms. Lawrence Weiner interests in the configurations between materials but rather one configuration. The fabrication and translation can be done by artists or someone else.
In term of placement and context, Weiner was exploring the location of a context and it’s affect around 1960s. He states that: “ I still found myself engaged in rejecting the idea that changing the context of a material constitutes an esthetic gesture. I think that all materials normally change their context and it's not necessarily an esthetic gesture. There is nothing that’s out of context.” What Is Set Upon the Table Sits upon the Table (1962-63) is a stone, which he moved from Brooklyn Bridge and placed on a wood table. He thinks what matters is the transportation. There’s a moving and changing context but not rather eliminate the context.
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White Noise Joseph Grigely
Response to Margaret Sundell and Joseph Grigely's conversation on ArtForum and Social System by sara black/virgina button
White Noise is the project that my previous post Blueberry Surprise is based on. This is an ongoing piece, which contain around 8,000 pieces. In Whitney the White Noise is installed by 2500 piece of paper. The huge amount of colleting process of the piece is very intriguing. Grigely himself considers the piece as a fragment. It is a space of oral room, which contained no “real beginning, no real end, being, as they are all in medias res, conversations captured in the middle.” It’s lack of context and continuity. The visual form of his work speaks to Art history. The piece as whole can be seen as a giant monochrome grid painting. The work speaks to the mundane, still life, modernism painting. By using mundane objects, there’s a sense humorous and pleasure to look the work. The piece speaks to multiple things. It looks simple but contain lots reference, conversation and ideology inside.
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Joseph Griegly Response to Michèle Didier
Joseph Griegly’s work Blueberry Surprise (2006) is a work that composed by 45,000 words of text (5000 messages) on scrap paper. He became deaf at the age of 10. Because of the lip reading is such problematic way to understand what people actually saying, he asked others to write down on a piece of paper. One time, after his friend left, he kept those papers but not sure what to do with it. As he collecting, he realizes that these papers can be work of art. These original handwritten papers are typed with different color suggest different owner of the text. There’s a game in play who’s writing what. The viewer often find themselves trying to figure out who’s writing these belong to; who’s writing to whom; what’s the narrative behind it; is the writer’s personality or identity is shown through the sentence. These sentences in writing are fragment of original conversations, which are hidden with only limited information leaked.
Oral language is such different process compare with written language. It a smooth fluid composes. In oral speaking, sentences often are fragments with random pause. Oral can be very random and casual, which written often not. Oral conversations often not to be imaged as visual form. In Grigely’s work, they are written and presented. There’s a contemporary phenomenon about Internet typed conversations. I thought the idea of typed conversation online and the differentiation with daily conversation is interesting. This work really gets me thinking about how I talking with my friend on line and different with daily. I use stickers, popular Internet lingos that I will never ever use to speak. And sometime, in daily conversation, some situation I just want to use a sticker cause I think the some sticker fits into the conversation so well. But I cant. I thought this intervene of language using in different form is interesting to think about and discuss. And Grigely’s work open a conversation about it and makes one think.
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Xu Tan "Keyword" An index of 125 keywords, which is a result of his project"searching for Keywords", works as a language learning tool to perform culture exchange through the learning process.
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survey: http://www.zhihu.com/question/26065904
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#Commencement #universityoffindlay #findlay
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