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.

Jeremy Deller

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.

puddles

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?

Roger Hiorns ,Seizure,Art Angel

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