Shane Hasemann presented the lecture today on Relational aesthetics. This was a movement that came to fruition in London in the 1990's. The movement toke to the idea of user based interaction within art. The primary focus was to create points of engagement within altering social contexts, that often toke place in the sphere of the everyday. The movement looked at Shifting the emphasis to the local rather than the global, from what is concrete to what is intangible. In essence relational aesthetics transformed life into a material art form to create art that is participatory and transitory.
From a technical point of view the language used to describe the art form was often associated with the information age, using technical jargon to describe works. Stylistically the works looked to the language of the minimalist's to form works of political minimalism.
The art work's themselves where heavily installation based and took place in real time in order to involve connections between the artist and the user. These were in the form of social encounters which were often random but sometimes planned.
Felix Gonzales Torres was a key player in the relational aesthetics movement. His Works explored the notion of imposing relationships between life and art, the private and public and the artist and the viewer. His works held a participatory approach with the viewer as they were often able to take away items from his instillation's, Like the wrapped candy in the artwork below.
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| Felix Gonzales Torres, Untitled (Placebo – Landscape - for Roni) detail, 1993 |
Establishing group roles
Today we established group and team roles. My role within the group is research designer. With an industrial design background i feel as though this role would be suited towards me as i have worked with and know about an array of different materials we could use to create our final works, as well as where to find them. I am also a capable researcher in an academic sense so i am pleased to have been given this role.
My role in the class as a whole is with the exhibition/ infrastructure team and i believe my industrial design background once again lends itself well to the tasks associated with this role.
Brainstorming concepts
The group this week began to brainstorm ideas about the final design for the Foley street exhibition. After screaming out the first thing that came to our heads for a while we came up with a couple of concepts that had potential.
We looked at bringing life into the city in a literal sense by perhaps creating a living space within the street. This would also draw on the notion of perception by bringing what is typically on the inside to the outside. However interesting the concept may be i don't think it has a strong enough connection to the Darlinghurst area and does not truly illustrate an aspect or idea associated with the area. I think it is important that the work does this to heighten the interaction between the user and the space and allow it to achieve a sense of relevancy.
The group also further explored this concept of bringing an aspect of "living" to the street by creating our own green furniture, constructed from plant matter. This also brings an element of nature back into a street which was truly living. Relational aesthetics play's a large part within this design and there is allot of potential with this concept to create something aesthetically pleasing as an instillation that is participatory and user friendly.
The group really likes the idea of allowing the user to ad something to the instillation or take something away to truly remember the experience of the night.
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