IPHY 2420 1st Edition Lecture 24Outline of Last Lecture 1. Mulholland Dr. Outline of Current Lecture – December 1, 20141. Digital Ambiences to Shared Worlds2. David Joeslit: After Art, 20133. Reproducibility:4. Fairytale: Ai Weiwei5. Ai Weiwei – Sunflower Seeds6. Ai Weiwei – Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn7. Zhang Huan: 12 M28. Zhang Huan: Canal Building9. TOP HAT QUESTIONCurrent Lecture:1. Digital Ambiences to Shared Worlds- A sense of “sociality” that is focused on self interest (Adam-ism)- The concern for the common- where is the ethical lining? The movement out side of postmodernism when you realize self-interest is immoral and that’s where we must construct the common.- World in common/ contingency of a shared world/ apparent shoddiness and insufficiency of a world in common/public space.2. David Joeslit: After Art, 2013- Network: the organization of flow and contacts between images objects materials and people. - Artists in 21st century stage art as a network and NOT a stagnant object – art has connections and movement. This offers private contemplation and isolated art that lendsitself to consumerism. - THREE PARADIGMES OF CULTURAL CIRCULATION:Basis of value Relation to Site Model of ownershipMigrant Aesthetic Free – unfettered Private – you as the viewer do not have These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.to share. Native Culture Organic – cannot appreciate an objectif it is taken out of its original location/place of origin.State – Paris owns the Eiffel Tower etc…Documented Documentary Evidentiary – we know where it comes from so we never lose total contact with site of originCommons – doesn’tbelong to an individual or a state – constituting and creating public spheres –spontaneous networking3. Reproducibility:- Joselit critics Benjamin in order to create his argument: Mechanical reproducibility ruins the relationship with the objects original site or origin. Benjamin: Site-Specify Singular Work Witness to HistoryScarcity /AuraJoselit: Network Population of ImagesConstitutive of history (experiencing history) Saturation/Buzz- How do images circulate around each other to create “buzz” ? Movement away from single object.- Globalization: Divison of layer that is distributed world wide Ex. Parts produced in Mexico, Assembled in America and have headquarters in Tokyo- Neoliberalism: Circulation of images “free”- Fundamentalism: We have our own culture and spaces – no flow site-specify- How do we bring objects and images back to one site? - Repatriation: True meaning of art is not in the way you look at art, it’s the way that art bares a cultural identity and shouldn’t be removed from original location.4. Fairytale: Ai Weiwei- Population Management – 101 people brought from China to Germanyo Low quality living styles (dorms/camps)o Brought over chairs from China – setting up debate of 2 cultures (Chinese experiencing art and Europeans looking at art/objects. o How do people flow across the world? How do objects flow across the world1. Mass Travel (mass tourism) 2. Branding: Accomodations, same luggage, clothes etc..3. National Identity and Global mobility: People needing travel visa – having to belong to a culture or people4. Art ‘figuring a population’: Personal documents (passport) and generalized statistic data (grouped into homogenized categories to 5. Questionnaire participation/documenting experience to generate data6. 1,000 or 1,001: transformative experience- can art still transform one person ant one thousand and one? Companies that sell “experiences” not commodities – not toothpaste, something that really changes lives (can art still do that)7. The Multitude: (Hardt and Negri) The experience of being in common with one another during circulation that is important not just for money or economic factors but also experiences. 5. Ai Weiwei – Sunflower Seeds- Hired laborers to make one hundred million porcelain sunflower seeds – handmade.- What it can be to be part of the large labor force in China.- No one is going to buy it or count it – its about the idea.-6. Ai Weiwei – Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn- What happens to culture under globalization? - Traditional material culture takes a back seat to the readymade- We are loosing touch with traditional culture- Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo – native urn appreciation but readymade globalization of coke.7. Zhang Huan: 12 M2- Performance: art where the body is the subject and object of work- Covered in honey, oil and flies sitting in public Chinese bathroom – but not all modernization is even. There are pockets and margins that are not modernized.- I understand most of the world is now modern, but it isn’t everything. - Highlighting different social spaces of life. What is vulnerable to modernization and whatis not?8. Zhang Huan: Canal Building- Spanned metal bridge – industrial construction- Compressed ash from incense used in a traditional Chinese ceremony- 1950’s press photograph – moving away from agriculture into communistic Chinese culture- Chain of memories: The Great Leap Forward, temple ceremonies, and contemporary art construction. - Modern moments seen in Chinese Labor9. TOP HAT