MEDIA OFF-SCREEN

Topic Three: Space

“Space is a practiced place”

Michel de Certeau (quote in Suderburg p. 19)

Artists and Movements

• Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Peter Campus, Frank Gillette and Ira Schneider, Gary Hill, Bill Viola, Mary Lucier, Steve McQueen, Isaac Julien, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Pipilotti Rist, Doug Aitken, Eija-Liisa Ahtilla, Shirin Neshat, Kutlug Ataman, Julian Rosefeldt, Diana Thater, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Stan Douglas, Dan Graham, Joan Jonas, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Perry Bard, Marie Sester, David Claerbout, Kutluğ Ataman

Key Concepts & Genres

• Site specificity (changing definitions of the term)

• Late 1960s / early 1970s: “a real place” –phenomenological

• Robert Smithson’s site and non-site• Institutional critique: site as “cultural

framework” – social/institutional• Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc, 1981-89

• “Functional site” – discursive• These are overlapping and competing

definitions

Robert Smithson, Site and Nonsite

Spiral Jetty, 1970A Nonsite

(Franklin, New Jersey), 1968

Richard Serra, Splashings, 1968-9

Richard Serra, Splashings, 1968-9

Richard Serra, Gutter Splash Two Corner Cast, 1992

Richard Serra, Tilted Arc, 1981

Martha Schwartz, Jacob Javits Plaza, 1996

Doug Aitken, Sleepwalkers, New York, 2007

Krzysztof Wodiczko, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, 1988

Krzysztof Wodiczko, The Tijuana Projection,at Centro Cultural de Tijuana, 2001

Krzysztof Wodiczko, The Hiroshima Projection, 1999

• Media artists as “urbanists” and “translators” who “make visible the invisible” (Willis)

• Installation as sculpture, architecture, environment, performance, collection and arrangement of objects, media

• Gesamtkunstwerk • Wunderkammern / cabinets de curiosité /

Kunstkammern• Expanded cinema / intermedia

environments

• Installation as the new cinema: immersive and cinematic (Rush)

Bruce Nauman, Live/Taped Video Corridor, 1970

Frank Gilette & Ira Schneider, Wipe Cycle, 1969

Bill Viola, Room for St. John of the Cross, 1983

Bill Viola, The Veiling, 1994

Bill Viola, Pneuma, 1994-2009

Pipilotti Rist, Apple Tree Innocent On Diamond Hill, 2003

Pipilotti Rist, Gravity, Be My Friend, 2007

Pipilotti Rist, Pour Your Body Out, 2008

Kutluğ Ataman, Stefan’s Room, 2004

Julian Rosefeldt, Asylum, 2001-2

• Kinopravada and kinoks• Variantology

Man with a Movie Camera: Global Remake (2008 – Present) by Perry Bardhttp://dziga.perrybard.net/