Blog Response Reading Prompt #2

After writing your discussion for Blog Reading Prompt #1 please discuss how your own work is implicitly and/or explicitly political in regards to Salcedo's ideas about what constitutes political art. Two prargraphs (maximum).

Blog Response Reading Prompt #1

Doris Salcedo, in her discussion of "Shibboleth," a site-specific work installed at the Tate's Turbine Hall, stated, "I believe that every work of art is political because every work of art is breaking new ground and it's, in a way, against the status quo. So every work of art the nature of art is political."

In at least 3 paragraphs total demonstrate your understanding of readings by listing,comparing, and contrasting the way(s) the following artists are political (and politically challenging the status quo) through exhibition strategies, publicity, critical approach to exhibition space, personal behavior, and exhibition norms. Focus on what you feel to be their most effective strategies, works, quotes, and arguments.

Discuss: Rasheed Araeen, Andrea Fraser/Louise Lawler, Guerilla Girls, Hans Haacke, Brian O'Doherty, Meschac Gaba, Song Dong. 

Carsten Höller introduces 'Left/Right Slide'

Carsten Höller introduces 'Left/Right Slide' click here and more here   
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After firing of museum director, artist walks out of exhibit on opening night at CSULB

University Art Museum Director Kimberli Meyer was at her desk drafting opening remarks for the launch of American MONUMENT—an installation examining police killings of black civilians by artist lauren woods that was meant to mark a shift in museum programming—when she was abruptly fired.

“I was fired. I was removed,” said Meyer, who closely collaborated with woods to bringAmerican MONUMENT to the museum at Cal State Long Beach. “And when I asked them why they said, ‘Well you’re an at-will employee so we don’t have to tell you why.’ So it’s a big question mark to me. [Departmental leadership] came in and I had to leave my office on the spot."

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Inside the White Cube Ideology of the Gallery Space

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The Guerrilla Girls critique 383 European art institutions

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Fred Wilson: Beauty & Ugliness | Art21 "Exclusive"

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Episode #197: Filmed in 2004, Fred Wilson discusses how beauty and ugliness together create meaning. For his installation "Speak of Me as I Am" at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), Wilson arranged "blackamoors"—decorative sculptures common in Venice—throughout the American Pavilion. In doing so, he called attention to how these beautiful objects depict Africans in servitude. Also shown in this film is Wilson's piece "Cabinetmaking, 1820--1960" (1992)—ornate nineteenth-century chairs juxtaposed with a whipping post—installed at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2004.
Appropriating curatorial methods and strategies, Fred Wilson creates new contexts for the display of art and artifacts found in museum collections, along with wall labels, sound, lighting, and non-traditional pairings of objects. His sculptures and installations lead viewers to recognize that changes in context create changes in meaning, and thereby shape interpretations of historical truth and artistic value. Learn more about the artist at: http://www.art21.org/artists/fred-wilson