This document discusses different forms of art criticism beyond traditional writing. It provides examples of art criticism through songs, videos, performance art, and other mediums that have emerged alongside new technologies. Students will complete a project where they create an audio tour of a public artwork in Hong Kong, which can include descriptions, interviews, ambient sounds, and music. Their audio tours will be presented next week.
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2. LAST WEEK
We thought about how to interpret an artwork. This involved
thinking of ourselves as translator, detective, archaeologist or
scientist and trying to uncover what an artwork might mean – as it
appears to us. Then for the first assessment of this course, we
each created a live work of #arttwitticism reporting from an art
show on what we saw (description and analysis) what we thought
it might mean (interpretation) and whether we thought it was any
good (judgment).
3. Art criticism has for the most part been a genre of writing. From
Denis Diderot’s pamphlets to Jerry Saltz’s Facebook page, art
critics and commentators have written about art. However internet
technologies and particularly the social media platforms of the era
known as Web 2.0 have not only given more people the
opportunity to write about art but they have expanded the tools we
might use. You no longer have to be a professional art critic to
write well on art. You also don’t have to write about art, you could
compose a song, make a video, compose a Tumblr blog of
images….
4. TUMBLR BLOG
The New Aesthetic Tumblr blog by
James Bridle demonstrates new
visual styles born of an era in
which we increasingly see the
world via computer technologies.
It’s like public form of research
where he demonstrates an idea as
he gathers it…
5. DANCE
Julia Bryan-Wilson’s
‘Embodied criticism’
She learns and performs
Yvonne Rainer's "Trio A" in
order to better understand it
and write about it.
This is a practice-based
form of research. Artists do
practice-based research all
the time but it is rare for art
critics and historians to get
so hands-on…
6. PERFORMANCE
Jayson Musson’s
character Hennessy
Youngman on
‘Damien Hirst’
This is a form of
parody which has
racial inequality at its
core…
7. WEBSITE/PERFORMANCE
Graham Harwood/Mongrel’s work
‘Uncomfortable Proximity’ (also
known as ‘Tate Mongrel’) was a net
art commission for Tate where he
critiqued Tate as an institution by
demonstrating its biased collection
policies and less than honorable
history.
8. EXTREME PERFORMANCE
Devon Britt-Darby a gay man
who legally married a
heterosexual woman as a
protest against an artwork
that trivilaised marriage rights.
‘The Art Guys’ big fat not so
gay wedding’
‘When two guys married a
tree’
This might be described as
‘extreme art criticism’ Britt-
Darby changed his life
(including his name and legal
marital status) in order to
make a strong political
statement about an artwork.
9. MOVIES
Frida
Other examples:
Ai Weiwei ‘Never Sorry’
Exit Through the Gift
Shop, A Banksy Movie
10. VIDEOS
Art 21, Philip
Tinari on Xu
Zhen
Other
examples:
Tate, Yayoi
Kusama
11. As you listen to each audio clip, think about what you can hear.
How much is there of the following content?
• Description
• Analysis or Interpretation
• Judgment
• Or contextual information
And what form does it take?
• Interviews or discussion
• Storytellng or narration
• The live sounds of the location
• Music or sound effects
16. AUDIO BROADCASTS:
CREATIVE
Liberate Tate’s
‘Tate a Tate’
Other examples:
Soundsky
Janet Cardiff ‘After
Banhoff’
99%Invisible on
‘Kowloon Walled
City’
17. TASK
For the rest of this session and your homework you’re going to
work on a project of Expanded Art Writing’ and it will count for
20% of your final mark. Instead of writing about art, you’re going
to make art audio.
In groups of 3 you will make an audio guide to a public artwork
currently on show in Hong Kong. You will need to choose a
location, do some research and plan a script of elements that
might include (description, interviews or discussion, the live
sounds of location, music or sound effects). Your audio guide
should be between 4 and 8 minutes in length.
18. TOOLS YOU WILL NEED
• Recording equipment (smartphones or audio recorders
from SCM)
• Editing software: Audacity
• Audio storage: SoundCloud
19. Next week each group will present their audio tours. You will
explain briefly:
• How you chose your location?
• How you chose what content to create?
• Who did what?
We will then listen and everyone will answer the following
questions:
20. QUESTIONS
Tour location: Score out of 10 (least-most)
1. How many types of content did
you count? (description, interviews
or discussion, storytelling or
narration, the live sounds of location,
music or sound effects)
2. How much did you learn?
3. How likely are you to visit the
location?
4. Did you enjoy the tour?
5. What one thing could the group
have done better
Editor's Notes
1.37 interview starts
13.24 end first section
Interview
Lots of talk about how the art is made and where the ideas come from
Interview
Much faster-paced
More talk about the public’s perception of the work
2.22 start 8.22 end
Lecture with introduction and interview
Personally storytelling, lots of humour
Storytelling,some interview, narration
End time 14.55
Tate
Start time 2.15
Narration, interview, sound effects
End time 6.25
Kowloon Walled City
Storytelling, interview, description,
