Outside the White Cube

Stephen Wiltshire: The Human Camera

2009-05-25T21:58:00.001+01:00

Stephen Wiltshire has been called the "Human Camera." In this short excerpt from the film Beautiful Minds: A Voyage into the Brain, Wiltshire takes a helicopter journey over Rome and then draws a panoramic view of what he saw, entirely from memory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8YXZTlwTAU

Photo Final

2009-04-30T09:44:00.002+01:00

Throughout my exploration of the outside the white cube space I became increasingly interested in these inanimate objects which dictate our every day lives, connecting us all at a certain moment in time. I am trying to portray a connection between the outside space and gallery space. By photographing a set of red lights the motion of stopping at these physically may be compared to the people stopping to look at the photo within the gallery space, it is the relationship between the people viewing and the spaces both outside and inside which I have tried to capture here in a single shot.I may be criticized for the lack of intervention within the site however I consider the lights themselves to be the intervention, a kind of readymade intervention which may go unnoticed or only realized subconsciously. The site is not necessarily specific however this is from a series of photographs exploring major junctions where the relationships take place in and around york city centre.

Any comments would be appreciated,

This is not the blurb btw.

Artist with ear implanted into his arm!

2009-04-26T17:47:00.002+01:00

Performance artists are known for pushing the bounderies, but one Australian has astonished his contemporaries by having a third ear implanted onto his arm.
The Cypriot-born eccentric Stelios Arcadious spent 10 years searching for a surgeon willing to perform the controversial operation. Artist Stelios Arcadiou has had the ear created in a lab from cells and implanted into his skin
He got his wish after working as a Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University's Digital Research Unit. The ear was grown in a lab from cells and implanted into the 61-year-olds left forearm in 2006.
Mr Arcadious said he thought art "should be more than simply illustrating ideas." Once the ear has fully developed he hopes to get a microphone implanted as well. The performance artist has become a living exhibit and is planing to install tiny transmitters so people can hear the sounds his arm-ear is picking up. "I hope to have a tiny microphone implanted to it that will connect with a bluetooth transmitter; that way you can listen to what my ear is hearing."

Wayhey!!

2009-04-18T16:42:00.001+01:00

Thanks Charlie, they are really good points! Am so chuffed to have one of my photos on the front page!!! and to have all of page 3 to myself. Happy days!! I am definitely going to look into how it being in the paper has changed the meaning, I think its a great way to follow it up.
Thanks again xx

red and dead

2009-04-18T16:18:00.003+01:00

hey, well done indeed just seen it all in the press. was thinkin about its new context, now the paper, printed adds another dimension. 'the mystery body being found', adding an eerie relism to your work. i can't help thinkin that the printing of it has definately enriched its intertext but has this manipulated or embellished the work? is its printing in the newspaper this actual coincdental juxtaposition perhaps the work? it if nothing else underlines the truth in your point that human life is so fragile.

good pics x x x

Yay!

2009-04-15T21:18:00.002+01:00

Just to let you know I have come into some luck while on my work placement at' The Press'. I told them what I was planning to do for my outside the white cube (with the red tube of fabric) and they said that they might make a story out of it for the newspaper. Will keep you posted as to what happens :)
Sarah

2009-03-22T16:59:00.012Z

Scarcroft Road / Bishopthorpe Road Junction, York:
Public art commission £7300

Artist Brief:
City of York Council is seeking to commission an artist to design and deliver permanent site specific art work/s to improve the visual appearance and public use of the grassed area at the junction of Scarcroft Rd / Bishopthorpe Rd, York.
The works will form a new landmark, reflecting the area and engendering a sense of place and pride locally.
The artist will work with local communities, engaging people in the design process to ensure the work is accessible and appropriate.

1st April 12.00pm: Deadline for expressions of interest
3rd April: shortlisting artists
20th April 3.30 – 5.30: On site consultation including shortlisted artists
18th May: Confirmation of contract
Oct 2009: Completion of work

If you would like to be considered for this commission please submit:
• Up to two A3 sheets showing examples of your previous work as relevant to this project.
A disc with up to 5 images of your previous work + 100 words briefly describing your work and how you would approach this commission. (The above information from short-listed artists will be shown to community groups for comments.)
• Two references or testimonials from previous work
• Your CV and artist’s statement.
To Emily Harvey, Arts and Culture, City of York Council, Mill House, North St, York YO1 6JD.
Email: Emily.Harvey@york.gov.uk or Kristina.Davey@york.gov.uk

Background information
Micklegate Ward Committee wishes to improve the appearance of the grassed area of land at the junction of Scarcroft Road and Bishopthorpe Road, adjacent to the perimeter of Bishopthorpe Road Car Park.
This is a prominent public space, with a high footfall, where people gather and meet. The final scheme will include consideration of seating, safety and maintenance and will be effective all year round both in daylight and after dark.
Local community groups will be involved in the initial selection of an artist to deliver these improvements.
A steering group including local councillors, CYC officers and community representatives will oversee the project.

The role of the artist
The artist will be committed to engaging local groups such as schools and residents associations through workshops and/or demonstrations, and be able to reflect this involvement within the production of their own work. A timetable of community contact time will be negotiated between the artist and the steering group.
The artist will be expected to work up designs and models for comment by the steering group and relevant CYC officers. The artist will work with the steering group to seek the relevant approvals and ensure the scheme is appropriate and deliverable. Evidence of current CRB clearance, public liability insurance and self-employed status will be required.
The artist will have access to their own work base, tools and equipment.

The fixed fee of £7300 includes
• Research and design of the scheme.
• All materials
• Attendance at agreed planning meetings, and liaison with project partners.
• Co-ordination and delivery of community activities relating to the design process.
• Fabrication and installation of work.
The artist will be contracted with the City of York Council through Arts Action York.

Plan of site:
Photographs of the site:

Additional information and constraints:
• The site is at the junction of Scarcroft Road and Bishopthorpe Road, adjacent to two busy roads.
• The site is just outside a conservation area.
• The space to used includes the two main green areas and seating indicated on the plan.
• Trees are valuable, particularly a mature lime tree, the root system of which is likely to spread over most of the open space there. Consultation with specific CYC departments will need to be undertaken before any ground works are planned.
• A pyracantha hedge will be planted along the wall running from the hairdressers round to the car park.
• There is electricity to the site.
• Water, mains cables, gas, signal cables run underneath the footpaths, which must remain in place.
• There are no height restrictions for the site, although the trees may well restrict the height of any installations. Final proposals must be agreed with CYC officers.
• The view of the road junction should not be impeded in any way.

Google Street View

2009-03-21T13:21:00.002Z

Worth mentioning that you can use Google street view to explore our Outside the White Cube map. Street View lets you view the selected street from an almost 360 degree vertical and horizontal axis using panoramic photography from a series of positions along certain streets. To do this you drag and drop the yellow man icon which is above the zoom slider onto a street highlighted in blue.

2009-03-20T11:38:00.004Z

hey,

I am becoming increasingly interested in the idea of intervening into routine and the mundane things we do everyday. I want to do this in some quiet way that people might notice or might not.

Im thinking this would work best with public transport...and that i want to leave [something] on buses and trains for people to come across and perhaps respond to.

Im struggling to find many artists relating to this concept but there must be looooaaads.

Anyone got any ideas?

2009-03-19T21:32:00.010Z

Joyce Kozloff
Boys Art # 2 Nagasaki 2003

American artist, Joyce Kozloff 's highly decorative work reminds me of ancient maps, which combined practical geographical information with decoration, and images of mythical Gods and beasts. Yet Kozloffs work is both down to earth and politically charged, dealing with with the subjugation of peoples under the domination of Empire. Drawing inspiration from older civilizations, who's intricate patterns embody profound mythological and spiritual meanings.

Joyce Kozloff
Jodhpur Blue 1996.
Section 29 x 42.7 cm

39 foot piece. Cast paper & plaster, wood and enamel, paint, indian ink , collage on paper, watercolour on silk. Kozloff maps interweave images, recipes and extracts from books to form a rich patchwork mapping the human and cultural elements of a geographical site.

Consisting of 8 panels, depicting street maps, photographs, recipes and food.

From her exhibition, 'Crossed Purpose'.

2009-03-18T18:36:00.003Z

Hi all

I've restructured the next two Tuesday sessions of the project, mainly to convene smaller crit groups to critique and advise on individual development of work. It is important you check your yorksj.ac.uk accounts where you'll find details.

Thanks

Roddy

Dekochari

2009-03-18T14:38:00.003Z

I have been looking at the flow of traffic (or lack of) within york but also outside of york, and thinking about the methods we use to get from A to B. It seems to me the best and almost definitely fastest way to do this in york which essentially has one road through it is on a bike, avoiding the constant traffic jam that is york city centre. I then discovered the craze of dekochari within japan (deko - decoration, chari- bike), which is a very literal link between the bike and art. It comes from dekotora which are Japans celebrated art trucks, and dekochari is basically for dekotora enthusiasts who are too young to drive. They instead set about making there bicycle look as much like a truck as possible, these people are almost definitely crazy but I admire them for it.

2009-03-18T14:27:00.006Z

Whitby Town View Webcam

York Minster Webcam

Scarborough Beach View Webcam

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/webcams/york_minster_constantine_webcam.shtml

http://www.ycrc.co.uk/webcam

Although requesting CCTV footage from the council was possible but not appropriate, They did provide me with these links to several live webcams in York, Whitby, Scarborough and various other places which i may use within my work. The Webcams aren't streaming over the net however, the images are refreshed every 5 minutes.

2009-03-16T17:41:00.006Z

Cildo Meireles
Physical Art: Cords / 30KM Extended Line 1969
Industrial cord, map wooden box 60x40x8cm.
From the ‘Geographical Mutations’ series

A conceptual artist, who questions the “physical, geometric, psychological, topographical and anthropological” boundries producing work which calls into question and refuses to be restricted by the political, physical or geographical, boundries. This small leather case, displaying a map of Brazil, combines and contains the earth from the borders of the two opposing states of Rio and Sao Paulo. This work is also a personnal reflection on this Brazilian artists childhood.

Mapping me!

2009-03-15T20:51:00.002Z

After looking into Chris Drury I found out that he uses echocardiograms in some of his work. I thought this was very interesting as I had an echocardiogram a few years ago. I like the idea of mapping the body in this way. I have included here a picture from my echocardiogram, if you look carefully you can just see the different areas of my heart. This is in a way a personal map of a part of me. Instead of mapping on a conventional chart where things can be seen by the naked eye, this type of mapping looks into places that we cannot see without certain types of technology. A personal map of my heart!

“If you want to know something you should ...

2009-03-12T20:24:00.007Z

...spend your time with somebody who knows something."

George Brecht & Robert Filliou, cited in Nieslony, Boris (date unknown) Art Of "Begegnung". Available from http://www.asa.de/magazine/iss3/15boris.htm#1 (accessed 12 March 2009)

Arrange a dialogue with “somebody who knows something” which could be helpful in developing your work. You should think of finding out something that is not yet evident from either the deriving/, mapping or public records brief. Interview them, show them your maps, explain your project, and discuss your ideas for your project with them. Listen to their responses and allow this to shape your developing ideas about art in context. Document this dialogue in a way of your own choosing and present your research at one of the next two sessions.

2009-03-12T16:46:00.003Z

just a couple quotes i found helpful to start thinking about outside the white cube art:

"The time for art is over. The point now is to realise art, to really create on every level of life..." (Situationist International, 1964, p3)

'The site is not simply a geographical location or architectual setting, but a network of social relations, a community, and the artist and his sponsors envision the artwork as an intergral extension of the community rather than an intrusive contribution from elsewhere"
(Miwon Kwon, One Place After Another, 2002, p6)

i think both texts were in our readers from last semester if you want to have a look.

Just Wondering.....

2009-03-10T22:32:00.003Z

Hey guys, just wondering if anyone knows of any artists (other than obvious ones) who use either natural pattern, nature or firearms in their work. Any information would be much appreciated!
Thank you!
Sarah
x

Chris Drury

2009-03-09T21:43:00.006Z

I realise this artist has been added before but thought this work was very different from the other.

This work is more concerned with a kind of mapping...after a visit to Antartica Drury 'mapped' or documented 'data' using echogram technology.

'The ice here is over 4 km. deep and the underlying Earth is hot, so a lake has formed. each line of biro represents over a hundred years in time and accumulation. Antarctica has been covered with ice for around 900,ooo years, which is about the time man has been on the Earth. An echogram, which is a radar image bounced through the ice from an aircraft and imaged in a computer. The image itself can be 20 m. or so long'. An interesting and visual use of data!!!

SurplusBargains (andrew beck)

2009-03-09T18:45:00.003Z

This is just one example of the work to be found on the wooster collective, SurplusBargains is a Wellington based artist working mainly in the field of fly posting around new zealand, oh and check out his website http://www.surplusbargains.co.nz.

The Wooster Collective

2009-03-09T18:33:00.006Z

http://www.woostercollective.com/

-woo·ster (noun)A street in the Soho section of New York City

-col·lec·tive (noun)Of, relating to, characteristic of, or made by a number of people acting as a group: a collective decision.

-The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world.

-Basically for anyone vagueley interested in street art, massive online archive/blog of the best street art being created around the world rite now.

2009-03-09T12:11:00.004Z

In response to the data brief i have began to look at the CCTV presence in York. I acquired the locations of all 59 CCTV cameras in York and have plotted the majority of them on a map of the city. The presence of CCTV in the city center obviously suggests which areas need to be monitored in this way. I have tried to retrieve some footage through the council (they provided me with the locations and other helpful information also), however the project isn't really an appropriate reason for this info. I am continuing to develop ideas and collect information regarding surveillance in York.

2009-03-05T19:53:00.004Z

PhD candidate Nepusz Tamas mapped nearly four million relationships between the artists on Last.fm to turn them into an interactive map that's categorized by genre.
As one might expect, the rock zone (red) separates metal (gray) and pop (green). Reggae and ska (pink) exist in a little data peninsula equidistant from pop and rock. You can search for bands on the map to see where they fall, or enter any Last.fm user name to see where their favorite artists are on the map.

There is a 3D feel about this map.

I like the concept of, interactive.

Posted by-Mary Allardyce

City without clothes

2009-03-05T19:23:00.008Z

Jana Morgan
Describes her work as exploring memory and other mental and linguistic constructs as they mediate the body's interaction with place.

Los Angeles Aerial # 3
Psychogeography of the crazy quilt (in the fashion of Jackson Pollock) 3' x 4' piece is a collage of vintage fabrics, men's neckties and painted / dyed fabrics, machine and hand stitching.

City Without Clothes (potentials of paradise)

work in progress-velvet, velour and fleece.

Morgan describes this piece as, "a work-in-progress, a sort of map to nowhere (as in utopia)," one from a series of aerial-psychogeography studies. She describes it as personal, in that it's potentially everywhere she ever imagined living, but has never visited. It articulates possibilities and parallel lives that may yet be lived.

Note the link in title to, Guy Debord's 1957 map, 'The Naked City'.
I love this work.
posted by-Mary Allardyce

quiled map

2009-03-05T17:29:00.008Z

Los Angeles Aerial #3: One for the girls a womans touch.
Psychogeography of the crazy quilt
(in the fashion of Jackson Pollock)
mixed fibers and fabric on canvas 3' x 4'

Jana Morgan a visual artist who works conceptually through fiber, paint and language, also video, photography to construct personal narratives, exploring memory and other mental and linguistic constructs as they mediate the body's interaction with place.

I love this work.
Posted by-Mary Allardyce

2009-03-05T16:47:00.005Z

I have recently been reading Chris Drury's book, Silent Spaces. He is a land artist creating works in site specific spaces. His body of work includes ephemeral assemblies of natural materials, in the mode associated with Andy Goldsworthy, as well as more-permanent landscape art, works on paper, and indoor installations.
Some of Drury's lasting works are "cloud chambers", darkened caverns constructed of local rock, turf, or other materials. Each chamber has a hole in the roof which serves as a pinhole camera; viewers may enter the chamber and observe the image of the sky and clouds projected onto the walls and floor. On paper, he uses a variety of unusual media---notably mushroom spore prints, dung, and peat---as a source of color and patterns, which he might overlay with text or fingerprints, or underlay with maps or other geographic images. More recently, Drury has produced works associated with the body, working in residence with hospitals and incorporating echocardiogram data and blood into his art.

Chris Drury - Silent Spaces. Book

Map of An Englishman

2009-03-05T15:51:00.004Z

Grayson Perry reveals the reasoning behind his controversial work:"I want to make something that lives with the eye as a beautiful piece of art, but on closer inspection, a polemic or an ideology will come out of it.
His 'Map of an Englishman', is a map of his own brain, with the appearance of an island, it bears the vague resemblance to the two sides of the human brain. At first sight it appears to be a mock-Tudor etch, but place names reveal a world of confusion, surrounded by Schizophrenia, Psychopath, Delirium, Bipolar Disorder, Anorexia Nervosa ect... a large creepy forest is named Fear and his many Church's, castles, hills and houses bear the names of character traits. Divided into counties such Romance, Tender, Bitch, Guru Cliche. There are only limited areas bearing the names Normal Easy. Posh is a region where the place names express elements we attribute to the social class we call posh: Chardonnay, School Run and Yoga Bulemic. Posted by - Mary Allardyce

2009-03-05T12:17:00.010Z

A few of many photographs taken from the Gasworks in Whitby. The site is filled with the most random industrial looking structures and vehicles; Large diggers, derelict boats and even a hovercraft just to name a few. The site sits between a river and a railway track presumably so barges and trains could transport coal to the gasworks in order for it to produce gas. The Gasworks is obviously out of use now as coal-gas is no longer produced in the UK. Although I have always been aware of this place i know little about it and am currently trying to gather information and old photos as a form of data. The randomness and intrigue of the site is what initially drew me into visiting.

Xavier Cortada

2009-03-04T17:15:00.004Z

"My work aims to challenge us to find deeper meaning in our present lives by exploring the paths of those who came before us and our relationship to the natural world.
"In 'The Reclamation Project,' I hung 252 mangrove seedlings (in plastic, water-filled cups) at the Bass Museum and worked with volunteers to place another 2500 across South Beach, 'reclaiming' an island that once a lush coastal ecosystem thriving with mangroves.
"In January 2007 I traveled to the South Pole ate site-specific installations: for 'The Longitudinal Installation,' I arranged 24 shoes in a circle around the South Pole as a proxy for those affected by global climate change in the world above.
"In 'The 150,000-year Journey,' I used a moving ice sheet to mark time: I planted a mangrove seedling at the South Pole, embedded in the ice it will ride for 150,000 years towards the waters edge where, theoretically, it will set its roots. Juxtaposing Antarctica's geological time frames with human time frames, my art reaffirms the notion that we are simply custodians of the planet who should learn to live in harmony with nature."

http://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-144.html

help !

2009-03-04T10:18:00.001Z

anyone now how i can get the dit function to show when looking at the outsde the white cube map on google maps?
i can view but not edit it? thanks

reflecting by nick

2009-03-03T22:42:00.004Z

can we go home now,or return to the charge,

if the desicion is left to you ,me what do we follow

whos in charge.Point point ,carry me on your cord,a

tattered thread ,with beads splitting,no more a base

im lost and longing.

Murders

2009-03-03T21:05:00.003Z

I went to an English seminar not so long ago and the topic was about the murders in Philadelphia. Talking of statistics this map dots all the places where murders have occured. If you click on the website and click the red dots it reads more statistics, time, date, weapon etc. Most of the dots reads.. Firearms!! In Philli, nicknamed "KILLADELPHIA" there were 406 murders in 2007! I might compare this to york. Im guessing york may have less than 10 a year? Lets find out!

Richard Wentworth

2009-03-03T20:08:00.006Z

Hi all...again!

I have found an artist who I thought creates the sort of photographs that I'm wanting to base my Outside the White Cube on; objects that belong to someone or belong inside that have been placed outside in an "un-natural" environment...basically objects that you wouldn't really see in this type of scenario; giving these objects a different meaning.

This artist is Richard Wentworth, and he describes his work better than I can, so here is a quote of his which I think best explains his photographs:

'I have always been very puzzled about the raw and the cooked. Am I sitting on a tree or is this assemblage of wood a chair? What draws me in is how things are convertible and how humans give meaning. There is something about mutability that I have always been attracted to. I mean, what is a television that is sitting on the roadside miles away from the electricity supply? Is it still a television? It's something to do with being dead yet alive. It's the small human acts that reach out to my way of seeing. Without someone being able to raise a brick and deposit the right amount of mortar then there would be no walls. That's all a wall is really - a lot of brick raising. A little human act multiplied. A half brick raised, though, can be a murder weapon.

My work is also attached to the limits of purposefulness. If something is discarded you can read that and see that it's been rejected. To me, there is something terribly beautiful in that. Formal things are incredibly important to me. I always see the crack in the glass before I see the window. I have always had this "sickness". I am interested in the aberrant.'

Wentworth

Katie =)

Dare I mention Banksy once again???

2009-03-03T20:01:00.002Z

Hi all,

Since we were talking about surveillance today, I thought this work of Banksy's was appropriate for this topic...enjoy =D!

Katie =P

2009-03-02T19:41:00.004Z

VICTOR PASSMORE "APOLLO PAVILLION"
This urban creation was comissioned by Peterlee County Councill,the artist Victor Passmore ,wanted to build a walk in walk out ,a place to linger to think dream,play as he said "a free anonymous monument".
this was the idea .
However by the 1970s "sunny blunts"became certainley a place to loiter.it became a drug den,litter strewn everywhere,a no go area ,and being next to a lake it became covered in mould a real sodding eyesore.I love this building its been panned by locals and critics,they are now coming round to the idea and spending money on it!

blind man eating winkles

2009-03-02T19:25:00.002Z

OPENING THE DOOR WITH A PIN
HE GRUBS FOR PURCHASE,
TUGGING FREE
THE FIRM TWIST OF MEAT
CHEWING IT
AS HE ROOTS OUT THE NEXT .

SPECKLED WITH THE RUST/BROWN
CIRCLES,TRANSLUCENT AS SCABS,
HE COULD SIT HERE FOREVER;
THE RUSTLE OF THE PAPER BAG,
THE SHELLS SCRAPING,THE RUMMAGE
THE SHUCK OF THE WAVES

POEM FROM A PANTED FIELD BY ROBIN ROBERTSON

Oli Laruelle - Invisible Journeys

2009-03-01T19:34:00.004Z

"Invisible Journeys is my first try at data visualisation. I have seen a few wifi geographical mapping, but they looked a bit too technical to my taste. Here, i aimed at a semi abstract visualisation while keeping the ability to extract sense out of the graphics. Below is one of the visualisation showing 4 different journeys. Bigger to smaller rings : London / Vescemont / Belfort / Barcelona.
Each circular item represent the recording of wireless networks along one journey.
The time dimension starts reading from the right then goes clockwise along the main black thick line.
Each successful node recording influences the time line thickness and adds a “pin” onto it. Red pins represents non encrypted networks other networks are the smaller black ones.
More images of the ongoing process can be found on my flickr set"

http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/ff_dataart_1603

http://yesyesnono.co.uk/article/30/invisible-journeys

2009-03-01T16:33:00.003Z

The Mostar Bridge

The Mostar Bridge was a very famous and historical bridge before its destruction in 1993 during the war in Bosnia and Hercegovina. The elegant bridge spanned the River Neretva and was designed by the Ottoman (Turkish) architect Mimar Hayruddin. It was completed in 1566 after nines years of building and the surrounding town became a thriving trading centre. The bridge was 29 metres in length and stood at a height of 20 metres, a classic example of a single span, stone arch bridge and was an example of advanced technology in its time. It became a World Heritage site during the twentieth century.

In response to Roddy, i find it interesting how these bridges have a similar shape, whether it be for design or practical reasons. Possibly it was easier to construct like this, or maybe it was just for aesthetical purposes. I am also interested in what you said about reconstruction and substitution. The mostar bridge was rebuilt using some of the limestone salvaged from the riverbed below from the previous destroyed bridge.

The rebuilding of the bridge symbolises the reunification of Mostar and will be part of the healing process for this ethnically divided town. I think i will begin to look closely at York's bridges and the history behind them!

http://www.technologystudent.com/struct1/arch2.htm

2009-03-01T10:42:00.009Z

Ouse Bridge (1821)

The original Roman bridge over the Ouse was eventually replaced by a wooden bridge built further downstream by the Vikings. In 1154, it collapsed under the weight of a crowd which had gathered to greet St William of York on his return from exile. It was replaced by a stone bridge, but part of this was swept away by floods in the winter of 1564-5. The repaired bridge of 1565 had a new central arch spanning 81ft, and was described by Defoe as "...near 70 foot [21 m] in diameter; it is, without exception, the greatest in England, some say it's as large as the Rialto at Venice," This bridge was dismantled between 1810 and 1818 in order to make way for the New Ouse Bridge, designed by Peter Atkinson the younger, completed in 1821.

An engraving of the Tudor-built bridge

2009-02-28T13:57:00.005Z

just deriving via the web and found theis old photo of york. Looking into bootham bar and found it of interest. think its a lovely photo.

2009-02-27T22:01:00.005Z

This to me is a seminal piece of work by Banksy, although his work now has become very commercialised, the viewer is reminded of early wall slogans depicting the troubles in Ireland and Berlin. Who's side are we looking at, is it from the Israeli or Palestinian side? I wonder what the thinking behind using children in this is.... The hole in the wall depicts Utopia albeit somewhat hurricane swept. BBC's Alan Johnston says 'there's no space left in Gaza, no parks, no grass, but there is a beach, it's Gaza's only playground, as Samehh the lifeguard put it, it's where people go to breathe'

To me it reminds me of a fading lens shutter on a camera, maybe blocking all hope, the last glimmer.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

2009-02-27T21:34:00.006Z

Surrounded Islands by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83

This is not dis-similar to artist Robert Smithson in his work spiral jetty, both involving key elements of water in the art. To look at the picture it looks incredibly ephemeral as if it could float away, almost like a piece of gold leaf. Christo's wrapping features lie flat on the surface unlike his wrapping of building which are more 3D. There's a certain stillness in the water and to an extent it has a feel of a floating reef with the trees almost being coral.

2009-02-27T15:42:00.001Z

Rona Smith

2009-02-27T12:59:00.007Z

"Arbitrary and accidental incidents act as a starting point for a series of installations and sculptures that explore themes of process and transformation."

"For High Rise, a typical breeze block stands upright slowly absorbing rainwater collected in a discarded wheelbarrow. A distinct water level is visible on the brick's vertical surface, rising and falling depending on changes in the atmosphere."

This stuff is being exhibited in a gallery; I am quite interested in perhaps documenting the same kind of things but outside the white cube. Why not just leave the objects where one finds them?

i give up...

2009-02-26T16:14:00.004Z

im feeling like there really is no interesting things in the world at this moment... and well no artists are currently making me feel inspired.. other than the one i posted the other day!! ok well... im bit useless.... at this moment!

Dan Graham

2009-02-25T16:52:00.004Z

New Housing Project, Staten Island. 1978
Two photographs of a housing development are juxtaposed in this work. On showing a backyard with garden table and chairs. The other one is the entrance. This was one of many works which Graham made of mass-produced housing estates that had been built to create a new suburban landscape in post-war America. He examines their use of space and materials, their relationship to the environment and their effect on people's lives. Talking about making the art, this council estate i suppose was the art as he was examining the materials and its effect on society. This was Grahams chosen site specific. Cannot find photographs.

Victor Burgin

2009-02-25T16:36:00.004Z

Today is the Tomorrow You Were Promised Yesterday. 1976

This image boasts a typically British street scene. Alongside the image is a poetic verse which speaks of an exotic idyll, conflicting with the drudgery of the image. It amplifies the dashing hopes, forgotten dreams and social and political injustices of a beleaguered nation. The bitter title, directly addressing the viewer, underscores the message. He focuses his work on the nature of representation. While out deriving i grew to like these scenes which i have documented in a similar way to Burgin. I plan to research further into this.

Daniel Buren

2009-02-25T16:12:00.005Z

Within and Beyond the Frame 1973

Striped banners, hanging like washing from a gallery window, flutter in the breeze. The black and white stripes have become Buren's trademark. This is ironic, since he uses the anonymity of stripes to register his contempt for individual style, announcing in 1967, that "all art is reactionary". His striped billboards, exhibited in Paris in 1968, contituted an eloquant voice of dissent against traditional art and traditional forms of patronage and presentation. Later he began to work for the kind of institution he had previously derided, he continued to retain political tension between art and context in his work, which is rarely available to collectors.

Simon Sheikh: In the Place of the Public Sphere

2009-02-24T14:37:00.004Z

Simon Sheikh is a critic and curator based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was director of OVERGADEN, contemporary Exhibition space of the cultural ministry, Copenhagen, from 1999 to 2002. He is currently an assistant professor in art theory at the Malmö Art Academy, Sweden, where he is head for the Critical Studies Programme, an international one-year course for artists, critics and curators, a joint venture btw. The academy and the Rooseum in Malmö. Since 1996 he has been co-editor of Øjeblikket, a danish magazine for visual cultures, and has since 1997 been writing for the daily newspaper Information. (He is currently writing a number of articles regarding the changing public sphere within cultural production in the United States after the changes in civil liberties and freedom of speech since 9-11 for said paper). His curatorial interest center around notions of narration, space and publicity, particularly within public works and the realm of video and film. Besides his work at OVERGADEN he has curated larger group shows, such as I Confess, Copenhagen 1995, Compartments, Copenhagen 1996, DIY - Mappings and Instructions, Vienna 1997, In My Room, Paris 1998 and Models of Resistance, Copenhagen 2000. He has edited anthologies such as The Meaning of Site, Ø, Copenhagen 1998 and We are All Normal (and we want our freedom), Black Dog Publishing, London 2001, as well as the forthcoming In the Place of the Public Sphere?, b_books, 2002 and a monograph on the work of Knut Åsdam, 2003.

See also:
Public Spheres and the Functions of Progressive Art Institutions
In the Place of the Public Sphere? Or, the World in Fragments

access public records and make a 'data-work'

2009-02-24T14:24:00.006Z

Identify an 'institution' which holds public records or information pertinent to your developing ideas, work or potential setting. Negotiate access to this 'institution'. Think about libraries, archives, internet sources. Devise a strategy to shape your research and compile a body of information generate a range of data (e.g. geographical, economical, demographical, historical, social, political, cultural, etc). In your studio, submit this data material to some form of intervention/manipulation. Carefully document this investigation and the ideas that arise from it. Present this as an artwork-in-progress next time we meet.

NB Some organisations will need to be approached in advance of your visit and you should plan your activities accordingly. You should also consider a number of lines of enquiry in case some approaches are rejected or need more time to pursue.

2009-02-24T12:17:00.006Z

JR-
"The hippest street artist since banksy"
JR is a 25 year old french artist working out of Paris. He is a self described "photograffeur", a hyprid of Photographer and graffiti artist.

JR has made his mark around the world turning unconventional spaces into large scale photograph galleries, for example train carriages in Kibera, Africa, or the
security wall in Isreal. A lot of his
work helps the communties he works in, for example in africa by pasting hhis photographs on slum roofs he in turn made them water proof.

2009-02-24T12:11:00.007Z

Richard Long's practice involves photography, painting and sculpture and is most commonly regonised for his large scale land art pieces. In relation to my current studies for the outside the white cube module, several of Long's works are in response to walks which he has made, as with my documentation of my derives Long incorporates photographs, maps and texts detailing the time and location of a particular walk. Materials found on his walks are often used to fashion sculptures or to manipulate a landscape, very much like the nature of land artist Andy Goldsworthy.

2009-02-24T12:00:00.005Z

Iemza-

Started out working as a graffiti writer, using bold, bright coloured lettering. He then became influenced by the derelict structures which he was working in, or "deconstructed abandoned spaces".

Iemzas work went from brightly coloured stereotypical graffiti to work which he described as "dark dirty and without tricks"

2009-02-24T11:06:00.005Z

Chiho Aoshim.

ok now this is the most amazeing thing ever!! Well ok (maybe not..) but i think so!! well this is outside the white cube'ish'.. as its in a tube station... so yes ive shared a wonderfull artist with you all!

Jenny Holzer

2009-02-24T10:21:00.009Z

"jenny holzer is famous for her short statements, formally

called ‘truisms’. some are common myths while others
are just phrases on random subjects in the form of slogans."

Gordon Flemons and Fran Wilde

2009-02-24T10:02:00.012Z

This is a series of observational drawings. Not sure if this is really outside the white cube. Well, I guess the googlemap is and the drawings were made on location. There are lots drawn on plastic bags! The exhibition was in a pub. "The act of drawing quickly focused our attention on the flow of people through the area, and for me more specifically, the forest of signs that control this movement; directing, dictating, and tempting."

andy abbott- anecdote vendor

2009-02-24T09:52:00.008Z

i know we all know this one already, or at least those of us in word based art last semester, but i've talked to andy quite a bit about this piece since then, and i thought it was really interesting that after displaying it in an exhibition space, it was put in a pub for a while, and actually worked a lot better there. for those of you who missed this lecture, it kind of acts like a normal vendor, only instead of putting in money, you have to write your own anecdote and put it in a capsule and drop it into one of the tubes, and in exchange for it you get someone elses story. so anyway, apparently the anecdotes left in the pub-exhibition were all more genuine and interesting than the first exhibition, which were a bit contrived. but apart from that, it turned out that in the pub, this machine sparked off all these really interesting conversations, so really the art ended up being the vendor as a facilitator of these random interactions between people, rather than the machine as an object. i'm really liking the idea of the conversation or interaction as art in themselves rather than art-objects.

(Anecdote Vendor, 2005, a pub somewhere in leeds)

2009-02-24T09:47:00.004Z

i really like that piece too, i think we all saw it on our trip to liverpool last year? but i prefer the pictures of it in the park...its like theres so many contradictions in the picture, with the show-light writing, the scaffolding and the environment its in.

artist: Nathan Coley

2009-02-24T09:01:00.007Z

Very interesting commts he makes on the demarkation of space and how semiotics have so much control over us. Coloured lines have so much controll turner prize 2007, Tate liverpool
Can't upload videos cause i'm silly follow this link:
http://www.channel4.com/video/3-minute-wonder-turner-prize-2007/series-1/episode-4/nathan-coley_p_1.html

this doesnt work as a link sorry!but it were the video i watched was from

Artist: Zarina Bhimji

2009-02-24T08:39:00.008Z

This is one of a collection of five stills and a short film Zarina Bhimji exhibited for the turner prize in 2oo7 . These images were collected over a period of many months when bhimji spent days travelling the trade and imigration routes in Uganda, talking to people from all the places she came into contact with. Uganda has a colourful history partly from suffering from Idi Amin and the migration and uproar that this causes. Ifound it particularly relevent her as she closely anlysis the movement and pathways of people and place.

Title: Shadows and Disturbances
Date: 2007
Media: Ilfochrome Ciba Classic Print
Dimensions: 1270mm x 1600mm
Additional info: Aluminium mount, TrueVue Museum Acrylic and frame (2007)

Simon Starling - cos I love the little fella

2009-02-24T00:19:00.004Z

Bugger if I know what this piece was called - it had a REALLY long word for a name but I can't find it anywhere online, and I can't find the exhibition note from the gutted out Glaswegian bath house where I saw it exhibited as documentation.

It goes like this - Simon Starling drags up this boat from the bottom of a loch (at least I think he drags it up - it could well be that he acquired it in a less remarkable way). Then he sets out into the loch, fuelling the boat's steam motor with pieces of wood cut from the boat's own hull. Of course, eventually there isn't enough of the boat left and it disappears into the murky depths of the loch.

I love it. I think I love anything to do with water. I'm starting to have ideas about the river for this module. May have to get my brother to bring the canoe up here.

2009-02-23T23:12:00.003Z

I wrote about Miele Laderman Ukeles for Intertextuality and also Inside the White Cube last semester and i think that her work also relates to this module. She basically declared her chores and mudane experiences to be her art...

'In the 1960s as an educated young woman early in her art career Mierle Laderman Ukeles learned an important lesson in cultural detachment. Once she became pregnant and then a mother she found herself ignored in the art world and treated with less respect in the larger community. In response to this, she capitalised on her mundane experiences to reinvent her cultural role; ever since, she has created meaningful events and relationships in places where art and culture had been loathed to step. She declared that her chores as housewife and mother were her art.'

Ukeles washed the floor of the Hartford Art Museum during regular public visiting hours, surrounded by sculptures and paintings.

Mark Wallinger

2009-02-23T23:10:00.006Z

Sadly I couldn't find a picture of this one. Mark Wallinger's A Real Work of Art (1995) was a horse. A racing horse that he bought, named A Real Work of Art and entered into races.

The idea was to take further the idea of a readymade, not only by claiming a thing as a work of art but by just letting it go about its normal business (running races, doing horsey things). He saw the idea of bringing a readymade into a gallery context nowadays as a rather conservative gesture, kind of hiding under Duchamp's skirts.

So, what was to happen would be that his 'work' would get 'disseminated' into bookies nationwide. Sadly, the horse was injured after one race and had to be retired, so that didn't really happen.

The fascinating thing about naming a live animal as a work of art is that from that point onwards everything it effects in any way is arguably part of the work. The work has no existential limitations(!) in a way that I can only compare to Jeremy Deller's Battle of Orgreave, which also implements living humans directly as part of the titled 'work'. Mind job.

Part2ism

2009-02-23T22:50:00.004Z

Something more local!! Keith Hopewell is best known as 'Part 2' or Part2ism by many for pioneering photorealist graffiti in the late eighties and early nineties shown here, in ‘galleries’ around York. He has been slowly re-establishing his art for the last few years. Keith first caught people's attention once again with his cardboard cut out installations. He placed complex geometric type, as long as 30 ft in broad daylight around busy city centre's throughout the world. Never designed as commodity, but many of these works were left in the public domain for people to hijack & Keith was caught on the BBC news & also received editorial in the Times & Independent. “I just wanted to play with people's perception of what this art is about, like the first time I saw graffiti on the New York subway! It was an arthouse of its own, born out of suppression & creating something from nothing. It was about expanding your own space & taking things to their limits".His work concentrates on disposable graffiti interventions which are constructed from discarded pieces of cardboard repossessed from the streets. They are designed to modify our city environments & daytime pedestrian streets.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=63185756

2009-02-23T22:49:00.005Z

White Cube is one of the most prominent contemporary commercial art galleries in the world,

In 1999, the Stuckists art group declared themselves "opposed to the sterility of the white wall gallery system", and opened their own gallery (with coloured walls) in an adjoining street..

On another occasion in 2002, while dressed as clowns, they deposited a coffin marked "The Death of Conceptual Art" outside the White Cube's door...

In 2003, Charles Saatchi launched an attack on the concept of the white wall gallery, calling it "antiseptic" and a "time warp ... dictated by museum fashion".

Their group manifesto places great importance on the value of painting as a medium, as well as the use of it for communication and the expression of emotion and experience - as opposed to what they see as the superficial novelty, nihilism and irony of conceptual art and postmodernism.
The most contentious statement in their manifesto is: "Artists who don't paint aren't artists".

In 2000 they gained attention by staging 'The Real Turner Prize Show' at the same time as the Tate Gallery's official version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuckism

http://www.stuckism.com/

Jeremy Deller

2009-02-23T22:38:00.008Z

The Battle Of Orgreave (2001)

Here's where I regurgitate what I learned from my Intertextuality essay.

Deller's work rarely (if ever) goes in galleries. Documentation does, but not the work itself (like much of Richard Long's work, Sarah!). A lot of his work is so collaborative that his collaboration makes up most of the work, and it is often temporary/performative so it defies exhibition. The Battle of Orgreave is a good example - a massive re-enactment of one of the most violent clashes between miners and police in the 1984/5 miners' strike. It's actually easy to miss that he's an artist at all, and his work still stands up if you forget that it's art.

ESSAY QUOTE!

For Deller, the ‘art’ side of his work takes a back seat to his sense of social responsibility. Or to look at it another way, the art is so closely entwined with the social or political in his work that if you negate the art it doesn’t leave a gaping hole in your experience or interpretation. The participants in Orgreave didn’t need it to be an art event for it to be significant, although as Deller states, it wouldn’t have happened without him [he says that being an artist puts you in an interesting position where you get to do things that wouldn't happen normally]. It takes little effort to conceive of any of Deller’s works removed from the art sphere and for them to retain all credibility as socially involved, dialogical, if sometimes a little wacky, public endeavours.

So I reckon Deller's work is so far outside the white cube (as a concept) that it's only just art. Or you could argue that it's more like art than any other gallerised stuff. It's definitely constructive, which I fucking love.

Betty Besumont

2009-02-23T20:53:00.004Z

(Teddy Bear IslandMaterials: 15 feet below water surface, Plastic cable1 submerged island,

1973, Location: West Hill Pond, Connecticut)

Beaumont was one of the earlier pioneers of enviromental art, she uses her social, conceptual and enviromental concerns to create projects. She uses photography to document her works.

(Ocean Landmark, materials ; 17,000 coal fly-ash blocks, Date: 1980Location: Atlantic Ocean, 40 miles from the New York Harbor)

David Gosling

2009-02-23T20:28:00.003Z

(Children in situ, dates unkown, location is a school)

(Willow girl and Dog, dates unknown)

David Gosling is an enviromental artist, he uses his back ground in weaving to create various sculptures in different materials. His work generally attempts to respond to the different enviroments in which he works.

2009-02-23T18:23:00.000Z

love it

stuffed!

2009-02-23T18:19:00.003Z

this is when clare, bex and me got a tad carried away with green wool!

2009-02-23T18:11:00.004Z

http://www.slinkachu.com/ Slinkachu. London street artist working on a minute scale. The absolute opposite to art in a gallery, you could walk past and never notice these tiny pieces.

puddles

2009-02-23T18:02:00.004Z

perhaps from our derives we could create a guide to the city for the under fives, with important information on it like wear the best puddles are to jump in.
Maybe there is a market to know which bus and at what time and on what is best to get on for the friendliest bus driver?
Or if you dropa glove where is it most likely to be stuck on a railing?

artist: James Jaxxa

2009-02-23T17:51:00.004Z

This work personally apealed because i have been experimenting with the juxtoposition of green wool and ribbon in the streets of york, 'outside'. This piece and other works by james jaxxa ar small and focus in on strange placemeent of brightly coloured and unusual ojects in relation thheir setting forcing botth to be viewed deferrently. I think this element need to beared in mind if i produce a site specific work in york, which is a place populated by those who are use to seeing things out of place and so everything is commonplace.?

Fantastic Green Gemstones, 2005Site-specific workTopanga Beach, Los Angeles

artist: christo

2009-02-23T17:46:00.004Z

i think Christo's way of mapping central park with this work aptly named path gchallenges what we believe about the space we are in and yet completments it.

Roger Hiorns ,Seizure,Art Angel

2009-02-23T15:58:00.005Z

I went to see this intervention last year and the memory of it has stayed with me. An Art Angel project just outside Elephant and Castle....reuses a very rundown area of London and intervenes briefly. On reflection this module highlights how a project like this can generate interest in a community. The hoards of people flocking to see this work would not.....I'm sure, normally travel through this neglected but colourful area. I've included a link below for more details of the project.

http://www.artangel.org.uk/pages/present/present0808_seizure.htm

examples of artists to research

2009-02-22T22:31:00.002Z

Krzysztof Wodiczko, Wendy Kirkup & Pat Naldi, Stefan Gec, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Guillermo Gomez Pena, Coco Fusco, John Newling, Brian Catling, Alastair MacLennan, Martha Fleming, Anna Best, Platform, Those Environmental Artists, Cildo Meireles, Vong Phanophit, Tehching Hsieh, Rachel Whiteread, ARTANGEL, Jeremy Deller, Roni Horn, The Yes Men, The Atlas Group, Jennie Savage, Becky Shaw, A Constructed World

Sculpture and Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art

2009-02-22T21:51:00.006Z

Hi all

Just found this other blog documenting the activities of students and staff of Sculpture and Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art. Interestingly similar idea to ours blog but differs in that it mostly announces events. Check out the links to their '4th year students' work on the right hand side though to get a sense of what kind of projects they are doing. Let's start to see some images of your emerging work/projects too.

Good to see the blog here getting busier too

Cheers

Roddy

SOS

2009-02-22T17:27:00.001Z

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone knows of an "outside the white cube" artist who manipulates photos on Photoshop??

Thanks,

Katie =D

ben wilson

2009-02-22T14:38:00.008Z

i'm posting these on behalf of me and lucy, because we both really really like this guy (feel free to add more chewing gum examples though lucy!!) he works in london and has been doing this for quite a while...no specific place, although a few years ago his plan was to start at the top end of High Street in Barnet and work his way to the centre of london. he does all kinds of paintings on the gum, including animals, flowers, faces, cups of tea, and does quite a few special requests or 'in memory of' pieces. and strawberries :] i like it that its so small and almost unnoticable but reallyreally cool at the same time.

isaiah zagar

2009-02-22T14:00:00.004Z

i know i've talked about this guy before, but i just love his work so much. he does these murals all over philadelphia, but this is his magic garden (1020 south st, philadelphia) (i think made round 1995) thats kind of like his centre piece. i love this kind of art, that has such a positive influence on its environment, using mostly just junk as materials. and actually doing something, making something. i want to make things. like martin creed :] only probably not actually like his work.

Laura Keeble

2009-02-21T12:32:00.004Z

Found this fake of the Hirst skull. Can't find much info about this artist.

(Though she does quite a bit of work in Southend; might have gone to school with her sister!)

Pat Naldi and Wendy Kirkup

2009-02-19T20:52:00.006Z

Pat Naldi & Wendy Kirkup, Search, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1993

Dan Graham

2009-02-19T20:45:00.005Z

Dan Graham, Alteration of a Suburban House, 1978

Guy Debord

2009-02-19T20:37:00.005Z

Guy Debord, The Naked City, 1957

Constant

2009-02-19T20:26:00.003Z

Constant, New Babylon: (Sector Construction), 1959

Skip Arnold

2009-02-19T20:19:00.005Z

Skip Arnold, Façade, Public Activity, Geneva, 1996

www.skiparnold.com

How do I post pictures?

2009-02-19T20:16:00.001Z

You can now upload photos to your blog(s) using Blogger Images; just click the image icon in the post editor's toolbar.

Find as many artists as possible ...

2009-02-19T19:26:00.001Z

... whose work relates to discourse of outside the white cube.

Locate key images of their works and upload to the blog.

Provide full details of artist, work, location, date, etc.

Compile a list of key words that describe the image or discourse in detail.

Every one should upload at least five such images and be prepared to discuss them next time we meet.

Dare I Say 'Banksy'?

2009-02-19T09:47:00.002Z

I'm sure I don't have to say anything about Banksy. He's like Marmite.

Hi Blog

2009-02-18T22:09:00.000Z

Hi wall,

I've accidently made another "Outside the White Cube" blog because my brain is not with it's body today, so please ignore the one that doesn't have any post =D!

I will post pictures of "Outside the White Cube" artist when I have found some that intrigue me =D!

That's all folks!

Katie =P

Richard Long

2009-02-18T21:07:00.002Z

I am looking into the work of Richard Long, simply because he is an artist that I have always admired, yet not had the chance to look into in detail. I like the way that he takes predetermined walks through the countryside and makes works as he goes along. These works are always made from natural materials. This is something close to my own heart as I try to use and take reference from nature as much as possible for my own work.
I like the way that he incorporates natural form in sometimes unnatural patterns, for example perfectly straight lines.
I am going to look in more detail at Richard Long’s work for my ‘Outside The White Cube’ project.
I have included here an image of Long’s piece entitled ‘Tame Buzzard Line’.

alexander brodsky

2009-02-18T10:41:00.003Z

these are some pictures of his Canal Street Subway Project (1996, Canal Street, New York), where he used a length of tunnel of the underground in new york to make this venetian-like boat scene (while the tunnel was undergoing renovation). he made these little boats and silhouette figures out of tin and wood and aluminium and floated them down the disused rails in a pool of water, so people using the underground had this slightly eery-but-atmospheric (slightly nostalgic?) scene to distract them from their everyday regular subway journey.

dérive

2009-02-11T14:59:00.000Z

My initial idea of dériving is to explore the environment without preconceptions of where to go or a reason behind why you are going there. I don't think i have ever dérived without a purpose for going to a certain place at a certain time. I like this idea of "going with the flow" and allowing yourself to drift. What fascinates me most is the idea of what you will encounter when dériving and if you will encounter anything which is unusual to your familiar routine strolls. I also like the concept of ambiance, and how ambiance can change suddenly in different environments and even in different times of the day or night......

2009-02-11T09:50:00.001Z

i like it how drinking tea, hugging empty car parks and devising plans of kidnapping music students and tieing them to fake train rails are all very valid parts of dériving. and how each dérive brings up a whole more possibilities of different possible dérives, or just random ideas in general. it's like it gives space to do things that would usually be considered a waste of time or pointless, because....thats the point? is the point to spend some time pointlessly? i'm not sure, but i like that concept. i'm way too achievement-focused in normal life.

Goose Attack

2009-02-10T20:08:00.000Z

Jonno suffers a savage goose attack!

This goose actually tracked us for quite some time. Is this an encounter?

2009-02-10T06:14:00.000Z

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Become dérivers

2009-02-10T05:36:00.001Z

“the dérive [literally: “drifting”], a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances. Dérives involve playful-constructive behavior and awareness of psychogeographical effects, and are thus quite different from the classic notions of journey or stroll.”

Internationale Situationniste #2, (1958), Theory of the Dérive [Internet] Available from: < http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display_printable/314> [Accessed 3 February 2009]

“psychogeography [:] The study of the precise effects of geographical setting, consciously managed or not, acting directly on the mood and behaviour of the individual.”

Internationale Situationniste #1, (1958), Definitions [Internet] Available from: < http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display_printable/7> [Accessed 3 February 2009]

Become dérivers.

Form groups of two to three people to conduct psychogeographical observation and collection of data (images, texts, objects, etc). Conduct your dérive over deliberately pre-arranged periods of a few hours at a time. Avoid the later hours of the night. Agree a meeting place as a point of departure. Modes of movement other than walking may be employed but only as long as a principle of random direction remains within your control (getting on or off buses spontaneously, riding a bicycle, etc.).

The aim is to see the city anew, and to (re-) discover locations to which you might address the creation of new work as form of intervention. We hope this will lead to collective research into the city of York, as we will be able to cross-refer the observations and data emerging from differing dérive methods. You could consider letting a dog take you for a walk, walking blindfolded with a friend, use a map of another place to try to get around, toss coins, follow smells or sounds at whim, turning first left, second right and second right again repeatedly etc….

Consider ways of documenting/mapping each dérive before and while walking. Marking a route with a piece of string, photographing and sequencing images, textually or graphically representing your dérive are initial ideas. Record material for these documents/maps for presentation next week and upload on this blog now.

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2009-02-09T08:35:00.002Z

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Welcome to Outside the White Cube

2009-02-09T08:00:00.002Z

Outside the White Cube is a project by artists at York St John University who are investigating a range of locations in, and possibly around, the city of York between February-May 2009. We aim to create new work through interaction with off-campus settings and mount a group exhibition of material and works emerging from this enquiry in May. Our initial starting points relate to observation; passages through the environment; identification of settings; mapping; placement / displacement; other creative and critical strategies for generating, moulding and composing material. We are also concerned with image, event and meaning creation in relation to those particular tensions present in the reciprocal interaction of 'art' and 'site'. We hope to use this blog to share images, texts, observations, links as we proceed. The project represents art as research and exchange in the urban context.