IRL 500 Lecture 11: CIRL500Lecture11
27 Jul 2016
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Art interventions/happenings as critiques of existing ideas. Attacked duchamp"s fountain by peeing into it and then hitting it with a hammer. Rationale: he did it a favor because it was institutionalized already and wanted to refresh original message of anti-establishment. Duchamp would be happy about restoring subversiveness. Burger: art loses power when it"s in a museum. Pp won"t attack traditional art because that"s vandalism--e. g. van gogh is part of the hierarchy--the ideas represented are canonical and eternal, but duchamp is about rejecting the hierarchy, so pinoncelli"s art - spirit of rejection. @ tate shortlist exhibit, they started jumping on the bed. Patrons thought it was part of the art, started applauding, booed when security came. No charges made because that showed the unstable boundaries of the piece-- people applauding meant they didn"t get it, so if tracy etc said no to the intervention, her status would go down.
