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Christine Mehring, Emerging market: Christine Mehring on the Birth of the Contemporary Art Fair, Art Forum, April, 2008

This article had to do with the contemporary art fair in the now, past and future. Mehring talks about how the fair got started then works her way up to what its like now and what it could be in the near future. although there seemed to be some parts where she somewhat pokes fun at the art fair, but not sure what that is all about. Overall she goes through the process of how the art fair came to be.

As for this article having anything to do with my work, I think that it doesn't this very moment but if I wanted to enter this type of scene I thing that it will be very involved with shaping my work and how I present it.

Roberta Smith's Who Needs a White Cube These Days? (January 2006), A New Boss, and a Jolt of Real-Life  Experience  (January 2010), Anti-Mainstream Museum's Mainstream Show

All these articles by Smith talk about current issues and questions that are big in the art world today. One being the use of the art gallery and the way it's being presented and how today it's anything but a white cube.  While another talks about Jeffrey Deitch and his new position as the Director at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and all of the challenges he has ahead of him.

As to these articles fitting in to my work, I've haven't even thought much about it but I may run into these issues in the future.

readings nov. 9

Jack Burgess explains Contemporary Art, 2010 and Dave Hickey on The Birth of the Big, Beautiful Art Market, from Air Guitar, 1997

Both of these were trying to explain contemporary art and its market by comparing it with something else. Hickey was comparing contemporary art and its market to the car market and his relationship to it. While Burgess was comparing contemporary art to more simple and more general ideas that you go through in everyday life.

I guess, in a way, I use this idea in my art.  I tend to take something I'm interested in and compare it to my art or to art in general.

worst readings ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Readings: Zizek's writing on Rumsfeld and Unknown Knowns, 2009; Goode, Among the Inept, Researchers Discover, Ignorance Is Bliss, 2000; Frontline: Digital Nation, 2010

First off I refuse to talk about the first article so I'm just going to skip that one and go on to the next. The one titled Ignorance is Bliss was just about how people who are incompetent usually don't know that they are incompetent and just self assure themselves that they aren't and just repeat the same mistakes.  Then the Digital Nation video was about how Technology is really distracting us rather than helping us.

As for any of this being in my art the only one I could think of would be the video because lets fact it, Japan is pretty much 20 years in the future from us and as to technology in my art, I would rather it be broken and not usable.

readings

Zizek on Crossdressing to the sound of Music, 2010 and Sound of Music/ Antwerp Station, 2009

As for the first video with Zizek, I couldn't really make out what he was saying, but thankfully there was some text and of his talk on Nazis pretending to be Jews so they can get to the same amount of power.  Which I think isn't a bad idea since I do believe that Hitler's mother was a Jew, and that would make him a Jew, but that would mean that he's trying to be a Jew as a Nazi as a Jew....
The second video of the dancers in the Antwerp Station was very amusing but in a way it was like the first video and not because it had to do with the Sound of Music.  If anything I think it has to do with the idea of pretending and being something you're not, as these people were just dancing to a song from the Sound of Music at a station in Antwerp which to me is random and out of context.....

But I guess in a way I do this with my own art as I pretend to be another person and submerge myself in Japanese culture......

readings

The readings were of Claire Bishop's Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics, 2004 and Mark Byrne's How Marina Abramovic's Red-Velvet Rope at MOMA Works, May 24, 2010.  I think that both of the readings in a sense are about the relationship with people in a piece or in a gallery space.  In Bishop's article she compared artist's work with each other that involved installation and gallery space with people.  While in Byrne's articles it was about a single artist who's piece involved people waiting in line to sit in front of her and the relationship between them.

But as for me using this type of idea my art is something I've never thought of or even take into consideration while I'm making art, but knowing myself I probably do so without even knowing it.

why i do this.....again...

So I decided to post a shorter version but one that is geared more towards my interest in Japanese culture and such......

My interest in art and Japanese culture started at a young age when I would draw from what I saw from Japanese TV shows and cartoons.  Although most of my early experiences with art have not been the best, creating art on Japanese culture in my free time kept me interested in art in general.  When I got older I became more interested in the actual culture and different Japanese fashion statements and stereotypes.  But, again, I was only able to make the things that I liked in my free time.  It wasn’t until half way through my time here at Ringling, and after I switched from Illustration that I’ve been able to really create things that are from my own interest. From that point I’ve been trying to find a way to combine traditional Japanese culture and their wacky fashion statements.