1. Discuss and define Jacques Ranciere's critical argument by discussing/defining terms such as: 1. aesthetics 2. the sensible 3. the police 4. perception 5. politics. Use his philosophy to overlay it with your own lived aesthetic and social experience(s). Offer your own examples. But for instance, how do you observe the "distribution of the sensible" when you are considering a travel destination, a purchase of clothes, planning for your future, or entering into an agreement etc. Do this with the terms listed above. Discuss in one paragraph.
2. Discuss how changes in technology, perceptions, and aesthetics have impacted or informed the ways we might view the work of Martha Rosler, Josephine Meckseper, and experimental advertising by Levi's. Why does Voorhies follow this part of the book with a discussion of the work of Thomas Hirschhorn? Discuss in at least two paragraphs.
Ranciere is trying to break down ideologies that have been put in place. He is describing all of the elements that go into this system in order to understand how it works and in order to undo all of this order. Like, what if I needed to buy a new bike because mine broke yesterday. Instead of buying a regular bike, I bought a unicycle. The entire aesthetic of me getting from one place to another would change. I would draw attention to myself and people would laugh and point instead of blending in and just riding my bike to school.
ReplyDeleteThe work of Martha Rosler still has a poignant and relevant affect, updating the content to explore current issue using technology and even more extremes of ignoring stories and images that don’t fit in our superficial daily lives.
Using Jean-Luc Godard’s film Tout Va Bien (starring Jane Fonda) as an art history reference point, Meckseper comments on capitalism, consumerism, and the effects it has on the workers caught in that system of making capitalism possible.
Hirschhorn’s The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival was to show a love for Spinoza, and for Spinoza to show whom they are. It was used to form, inspire, and strengthen the community. Instead of taking something that has been policed into sensible and political aesthetics of perception, he is taking the disguarded and bringing it to live with the construction of squatter-like stages and shelters and bringing together the forgotten surrounding community for a festival.
If I am trying to enter into an agreement, I would consider the obvious elements within it that attracts me and I would use critical judgment as my perception to conclude. There may be some instances that the your preconceived idea controls how you might consider the nature of the agreement, thus the police and also you infer your visual experience into the physical element you have seen about the agreement and translate that into a meaningful concept of how you understand the agreement, which is also your aesthetic view. So the politics how you have immediate appreciation for the concept regarding that agreement when you arrive on what you thing may be successful for such decision.
ReplyDeleteJosephine plays with aesthetics in her work with the use of text and glass. I think see that there is a sense of specialty when an item is placed in a glass. The collages of text with different information suggest how people individually read aesthetics of items peculiar or seductive to them when they enter a shop. I see that on social media settings in terms how topic of stories are formed and images are manipulated to lure a reader.
That is what I see as seduction in a work of art. Martha Rosler also manipulates image for similar analogy of politics in terms on consumer approach. I think Voohies continues to say that with the work of Thomas Hirschhorn because he mentions often that he makes art that is political and not political art. Hirschhorn says he makes poor art as counter people’s perception of richness. According to him, he aims to use much energy in his work than to achieve quality. So in the presence of his exhibition, I believe the work would shape your mind as to how could appreciate his art. Energy would definitely occur in your mind. In my view, I also think that to understand the work politically, the analogy of aesthetics, perception and the sensible could be used interchangeably although they all have peculiar differences. They are the ideal group of apparatus needed to conceive a conceptual artwork.
In terms of Hirschhorn he is also trying to reflect consumer culture and overconsumption through the physical and material objects and maximal aesthetics. Voorhies argues that his aesthetics are impactful to contemporary audiences because they are extreme, challenging, and also participatory setting up a new aesthetic and a new type of exhibition form (therefore his exhibitions are political without always being overtly about a political cause).
DeleteThis has probably been my favorite segment of the book so far. I really appreciate Voorhies interpretation of the Martha Rosler’s photos. He really captures the meaning of her work and relates it beautifully to Jacque Ranciere’s writings. And also outlines the role of the spectator. “The composite representations conflated a reality they knew but one they might not want to readily acknowledge within the swelling desires for commercial goods and extravagant lifestyles”
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think about the association he is making between Rosler and Hirschhorn?
DeleteThe changes in technology definitely changed the way people view Martha Rosler’s work. Rosler’s work is powerful because the shock of seeing some familiar things juxtapose together when they normally do not exist in the same space. Nowadays, people are so used to see different images one after another because of social media. This causes the shocking sensation to wear off faster than ever before.
ReplyDeleteDo you find Hirschhorn to be more shocking and/or more or less impactful?
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