What fascinates me about t he Spinoza Festival is that it is felt as social practice yet the artist maintains the point that his project is art and not a social practice to entertain the community. “I don't do something for the community. I do something, I hope, for art and the understanding of art”. I like how creative he is as an artist that his practice raises so many questions like what could be art. In the video, I was impressed by the educative aspect of it where children performed the works of some radical artists such as Joseph Beuys, Robert Morris, Vito Acconci etc who sort of think like Thomas Hirschhorn. The Spinoza festival also reminds me of the work of Carsten Holler’s Experience; the very common things that people may experience in their various settings are now seen within that space in the context of art, for instance the computer game, reading books, acting and drinking at the bar. Spinoza Festival also contributes to Nicholas Bourriaud’s relational aesthetics. Within this work, the spectator is then expected to read the happenings as art exhibition although it takes the form of social practice or communal entertainment. Group Material also falls within this category of work, especially some elements in the project that I think spectator expect to experience in an exhibition space, a kind of cultural value. That was what happened at the Spinoza Festival. There is also a suggestion of individual relationship to particular spaces, for instance some children were attracted to the computer games, and other adults were also interested in taking drinks and reading books.
What fascinates me about t he Spinoza Festival is that it is felt as social practice yet the artist maintains the point that his project is art and not a social practice to entertain the community. “I don't do something for the community. I do something, I hope, for art and the understanding of art”. I like how creative he is as an artist that his practice raises so many questions like what could be art. In the video, I was impressed by the educative aspect of it where children performed the works of some radical artists such as Joseph Beuys, Robert Morris, Vito Acconci etc who sort of think like Thomas Hirschhorn. The Spinoza festival also reminds me of the work of Carsten Holler’s Experience; the very common things that people may experience in their various settings are now seen within that space in the context of art, for instance the computer game, reading books, acting and drinking at the bar.
ReplyDeleteSpinoza Festival also contributes to Nicholas Bourriaud’s relational aesthetics. Within this work, the spectator is then expected to read the happenings as art exhibition although it takes the form of social practice or communal entertainment. Group Material also falls within this category of work, especially some elements in the project that I think spectator expect to experience in an exhibition space, a kind of cultural value. That was what happened at the Spinoza Festival. There is also a suggestion of individual relationship to particular spaces, for instance some children were attracted to the computer games, and other adults were also interested in taking drinks and reading books.
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