An overview of selected contemporary art practices that engage ideas of time and memory

1. KVB127 Visual Art Open Studio 2
Week 5: Time and Memory

2. Robertson, J., & McDaniel, C. (2017). Themes of contemporary art:
Visual art after 1980 (4th ed.). Oxford University Press.
Time and Memory
• Time and material trace (indexicality)
• Time as an active element (temporality)
• History and its cultural/social impacts
• Memory and materiality
• Intergenerational dialogue (biography/autobiography)

3. James NARES
(British/American b. 1953)
Prince, 2018
22k gold leaf on Evolon, 114.6 x 224.8 x 6.3 cm.
Joel MEYEROWITZ
(American b. 1938)
Pool, Storm, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1976
Archival pigment print

4. Hiroshi SUGIMOTO (Japanese b. 1948)
Snow White, 2017

5. Christian MARCLAY (American b.1959)
The Clock, 2010. Single channel video, duration: 24 hours

6. Lisa REIHANA (Maori/Aoteroa b.1964)
In Pursuit of Venus [infected], 2015–17, Ultra HD video panorama, colour, sound, 64 min.

7. Christian THOMPSON AO
(Bidjara, b.1978)
Desert Melon 2012
Thompson in the ethnographic archives of the Pitt River
Museum, Oxford University

8. Brook ANDREW
(Wiradjuri, b.1985)
Ahy-kon-uh-klas-tik. 2017
Installation, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

9. Fred WILSON
(American b.1954)
Metalwork, 1723-1880
silver and slave chains from
the collection of the
Maryland Historical Society,
in "Mining the Museum,"
1992

10. Doris SALCEDO (Columbian b. 1958)
Atrabiliarios 1992-2004
Doris SALCEDO (Colombian b.1958)
Untitled 1997

11. Rachel WHITEREAD
(British b.1958)
House 1993
193 Grove Road, London E3
(destroyed)

12. SONG Dong
(Chinese b.1966)
Projects 90: Song Dong 2009
Installation, Musuem of Modern
Art, New York.

13. Simryn GILL
(Australian b.1959)
Roadkill, 2000
Nele AZEVEDO
(Brazilian b.1950)
minimum monument
Paço das Artes, Sao Paolo, Brazil. 2016

14. Week 5 Reflection
Prepare for class by reviewing the
resources in the Week 5 folder and
considering the following questions:
•How is time/memory being evoked by
the work?
•What notions of history is each artist
engaging with?
•What general principles of practice can
we take from these artists?
Make notes in your blog and bring your
observations and questions to class.
SONG Dong
(Chinese b.1966)
Writing Diary With Water 1995
chromogenic prints

15. 2.5 REDUX (Homework Task)
Review the works that you have produced so far this
year.
Select a work and make a new work that reworks
aspects of the original by using a different range of
processes.
On the one hand, this can be seen as a simple act of
revision. But we can also see this activity as a
‘conversation’ between the two works over
time. Does this idea change the way you work?
(4hrs)
Present both works together for review in the Week
6 Tutorial
SONG Dong
(Chinese b.1966)
Writing Diary With Water 1995
chromogenic prints