Hola a todos los alumnos!
Como ya habrán visto, Jamie McMurry ha enviado sus indicaciones para el comienzo de nuestro Taller. Por favor, leanlas cuidadosamente, ya que dichos requerimientos son exigibles para el primer día de trabajo.
Mi metodología a trabajar consiste en analizar nuestra vinculación con el mundo a través de nuestra mirada a los demás, e igualmente, descubrir nuestra presencia a través de la mirada que los otros tienen sobre nosotros.
Investigaremos todos los aspectos de esa mirada, lo racional e irracional, lo social y lo psicológico que tiene implícito; aquello que vemos de los demás tiene toda clase de atributos, por lo cual buscaremos más información a través de una mirada "más crítica", analizando nuestro lado "voyeur" sobre los demás.
Pero no sólo nuestra mirada será el foco de atención: también analizaremos los demás modos de interacción que tenemos cuando tenemos que estar presentes en el mundo; ¿cómo tocamos a los demás? ¿cuáles son nuestros fetiches cuando conocemos a una persona? ¿de qué manera el género se transforma en una variable importante en este proceso?
A modo de introducción, les recomiendo leer el texto que incluyo en la siguiente entrada ("post") de este blog. Dicho texto es una traducción que yo he hecho de una sección del libro "Unmarked: The politics of performance", Peggy Phelan, Routledge: 1993
Otras indicaciones para mi sección del taller:
- Requiero que lleven consigo una prenda de ropa interior que tenga una importancia particular en su vida (por ejemplo, que haya sido usada en un día crítico, o en un momento que no se olvidará); esta prenda no debe ser usada, sólo llevada en un envoltorio especial.
- Necesito que anoten 3 actividades que hayan desarrollado en las recientes semanas, que impliquen su "relación con los demás" y que uds. crean que son significativas o informativas de su forma de tratar con las demás personas; estas actividades pueden ser acciones simples, pero es necesario que las anoten en detalle.
- Necesito que lleven con ustedes alguna tecnología que les permita "capturar a los otros"; esto puede ser desde una cámara digital de fotos hasta lo más obsoleto y arcaico, pero que según ustedes, pueda servir con dicho porpósito.
Me alegra tenerlos como alumnos... Espero que esta experiencia sea tan significativa para ustedes, como lo es para nosotros.
Un abrazo,
Alexander
20.11.06
Workshop Materials
greetings all workshop participants
buenos dias
i am glad to hear of your participation and greatly look forward to our upcoming work together.
as you may know, the workshop is operated by three different instructors; Alexander del Re from Santiago, Helge Meyer from a small and beautiful place in Germany and myself, Jamie McMurry from Los Angeles.
we have had great and fulfilling experiences presenting this workshop together in Malaysia and Germany, and we plan to even further the intense exchanges of ideas that we have experienced with this upcoming rendition in Chile.
we will be engaged in presentations, lectures, group discussions and exercises at times silmultaneous and at times broken into 3 groups with 3 different areas of focus:
-a greater understanding of the role of audience or viewer in an art context
-autobiography and personal experience as an artist's content, an artist's existance as process
-the body as the artist's most important medium, steps towards a better understanding of one's primary tool
for my sections that deal with autobiography, i would ask that each of you bring one or two items of some personal signifigance. something than can evoke a specific and detailed story or environment for you.
also, please bring a photograph of another person, any person. ideally someone who no one else in the workshop
would know.
lastly, please bring something that you believe you can easily recognize by touch alone. a common item or something that perhaps would be easier for you to recognize without sight than someone else.
i will discuss some reading materials that i will make available to each of you, but there will be no required reading. only options and suggestions. i would however, like to request that you read Sol Lewitt's sentences on conceptual art listed below.
Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.
Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
Formal art is essentially rational.
Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.
If the artist changes his mind midway through the execution of the piece he compromises the result and repeats past results.
The artist's will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion. His wilfulness may only be ego.
When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.
The concept and idea are different. The former implies a general direction while the latter is the component. Ideas implement the concept.
Ideas can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.
Ideas do not necessarily proceed in logical order. They may set one off in unexpected directions, but an idea must necessarily be completed in the mind before the next one is formed.
For each work of art that becomes physical there are many variations that do not.
A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.
The words of one artist to another may induce an idea chain, if they share the same concept.
Since no form is intrinsically superior to another, the artist may use any form, from an expression of words (written or spoken) to physical reality, equally.
If words are used, and they proceed from ideas about art, then they are art and not literature; numbers are not mathematics.
All ideas are art if they are concerned with art and fall within the conventions of art.
One usually understands the art of the past by applying the convention of the present, thus misunderstanding the art of the past.
The conventions of art are altered by works of art.
Successful art changes our understanding of the conventions by altering our perceptions.
Perception of ideas leads to new ideas.
The artist cannot imagine his art, and cannot perceive it until it is complete.
The artist may misperceive (understand it differently from the artist) a work of art but still be set off in his own chain of thought by that misconstrual.
Perception is subjective.
The artist may not necessarily understand his own art. His perception is neither better nor worse than that of others.
An artist may perceive the art of others better than his own.
The concept of a work of art may involve the matter of the piece or the process in which it is made.
Once the idea of the piece is established in the artist's mind and the final form is decided, the process is carried out blindly. There are many side effects that the artist cannot imagine. These may be used as ideas for new works.
The process is mechanical and should not be tampered with. It should run its course.
There are many elements involved in a work of art. The most important are the most obvious.
If an artist uses the same form in a group of works, and changes the material, one would assume the artist's concept involved the material.
Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
It is difficult to bungle a good idea.
When an artist learns his craft too well he makes slick art.
These sentences comment on art, but are not art.
buenos dias
i am glad to hear of your participation and greatly look forward to our upcoming work together.
as you may know, the workshop is operated by three different instructors; Alexander del Re from Santiago, Helge Meyer from a small and beautiful place in Germany and myself, Jamie McMurry from Los Angeles.
we have had great and fulfilling experiences presenting this workshop together in Malaysia and Germany, and we plan to even further the intense exchanges of ideas that we have experienced with this upcoming rendition in Chile.
we will be engaged in presentations, lectures, group discussions and exercises at times silmultaneous and at times broken into 3 groups with 3 different areas of focus:
-a greater understanding of the role of audience or viewer in an art context
-autobiography and personal experience as an artist's content, an artist's existance as process
-the body as the artist's most important medium, steps towards a better understanding of one's primary tool
for my sections that deal with autobiography, i would ask that each of you bring one or two items of some personal signifigance. something than can evoke a specific and detailed story or environment for you.
also, please bring a photograph of another person, any person. ideally someone who no one else in the workshop
would know.
lastly, please bring something that you believe you can easily recognize by touch alone. a common item or something that perhaps would be easier for you to recognize without sight than someone else.
i will discuss some reading materials that i will make available to each of you, but there will be no required reading. only options and suggestions. i would however, like to request that you read Sol Lewitt's sentences on conceptual art listed below.
Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.
Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
Formal art is essentially rational.
Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.
If the artist changes his mind midway through the execution of the piece he compromises the result and repeats past results.
The artist's will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion. His wilfulness may only be ego.
When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.
The concept and idea are different. The former implies a general direction while the latter is the component. Ideas implement the concept.
Ideas can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.
Ideas do not necessarily proceed in logical order. They may set one off in unexpected directions, but an idea must necessarily be completed in the mind before the next one is formed.
For each work of art that becomes physical there are many variations that do not.
A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.
The words of one artist to another may induce an idea chain, if they share the same concept.
Since no form is intrinsically superior to another, the artist may use any form, from an expression of words (written or spoken) to physical reality, equally.
If words are used, and they proceed from ideas about art, then they are art and not literature; numbers are not mathematics.
All ideas are art if they are concerned with art and fall within the conventions of art.
One usually understands the art of the past by applying the convention of the present, thus misunderstanding the art of the past.
The conventions of art are altered by works of art.
Successful art changes our understanding of the conventions by altering our perceptions.
Perception of ideas leads to new ideas.
The artist cannot imagine his art, and cannot perceive it until it is complete.
The artist may misperceive (understand it differently from the artist) a work of art but still be set off in his own chain of thought by that misconstrual.
Perception is subjective.
The artist may not necessarily understand his own art. His perception is neither better nor worse than that of others.
An artist may perceive the art of others better than his own.
The concept of a work of art may involve the matter of the piece or the process in which it is made.
Once the idea of the piece is established in the artist's mind and the final form is decided, the process is carried out blindly. There are many side effects that the artist cannot imagine. These may be used as ideas for new works.
The process is mechanical and should not be tampered with. It should run its course.
There are many elements involved in a work of art. The most important are the most obvious.
If an artist uses the same form in a group of works, and changes the material, one would assume the artist's concept involved the material.
Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
It is difficult to bungle a good idea.
When an artist learns his craft too well he makes slick art.
These sentences comment on art, but are not art.
15.11.06
PerfoPuerto - "BODY, IMAGE AND THE OTHER"
Muestra internacional de Performances
"BODY, IMAGE AND THE OTHER"
con Jamie McMurry (EEUU),
Helge Meyer (Alemania) y
Alexander Del Re (Chile)
Sábado 25 de Noviembre desde las 19:30 hrs.,
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago
(MAC sede Parque Forestal) - CHILE
ENTRADA LIBERADA
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International Performance art event
"BODY, IMAGE AND THE OTHER"
with Jamie McMurry (USA),
Helge Meyer (Germany) and
Alexander Del Re (Chile)
Saturday November 25th, 7:30 pm
"BODY, IMAGE AND THE OTHER"
with Jamie McMurry (USA),
Helge Meyer (Germany) and
Alexander Del Re (Chile)
Saturday November 25th, 7:30 pm
Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago
(Parque Forestal) - CHILE
FREE
(Parque Forestal) - CHILE
FREE
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