Prop and Circumstance
- The "audience" generated the content of the art show during a two hour window of time at Downtown Gallery on April 27th 2012. Strongly influenced by postproduction theory, this project treats the gallery space as a space for use. Taken at its most abstract level, Prop and Circumstance is a symbolic articulation that questions the structural relationships created by iconic forms (traditional arts), iconic spaces (galleries or museums), and iconic publics (audience). As an experience, Prop and Circumstance borrowed from the language of sports to frame an aesthetic examination of a fundamental design principle: the point.
The gallery space before the show.
Each quarter, the audience made a new work.
The works were framed by specific instructions
and inspired by a question.
First Quarter.
00:00:00 to 00:30:00.
Question by Yayoi Kusama: Dissolution and accumulation. What were they? or Why remain strangers?
Directions: Please begin by placing dots on the chair/canvas.
Live classical music helped frame each activity.
- Second Quarter.
00:30:00 to 01:00:00.
Question by Louise Bourgeois:
When does emotion become physical?
When does physical become emotion?
Directions: Please use the tubs of clay to make
green person, orange person, red person, yellow person... - Third Quarter.
01:00:00 to 01:30:00.
Question by James Victore: Who died and made you boss?
Directions: Grab a black marker and plate.
Please share the last media message you were served.
- Action shot of people stretching the point.
- Fourth Quarter.
01:30:00 to 02:00:00.
Question by Marcel Duchamp: Can one make work that is not works of art?
Directions 1: Grab a magnetic LED light and place on the bicycle wheel.
- Directions 2: On our whistle, take a handful of points and shoot at the goal.
- Prop and Circumstance ended with a "good-game" high-five out the door.
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