John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art (1971)
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Eric van Hove
Eric van Hove, ‘Exonomie’ (2010)
A recomposition of an original bookshelf (Section 2A) which disappeared some 40 years ago during the splitting of the Universiteit Leuven following the franco-dutch linguistic separatist movement in Belgium in 1971.
1000 borrowed books from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) and 1000 books borrowed from the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL).
Job Koelewijn
Job Koelewijn, ‘Relief 25 march 2009 – 6 jan 2012’ (2012)
Every day, for 45 minutes, Job Koelewijn read aloud a book, recording his voice on cassette tapes, creating columns whose height corresponds to the length and complexity of the book.
De Rijke/De Rooij
De Rijke/De Rooij, ‘Bouquet IV’ (2005)
Bouquet IV, which consists of a specific flower arrangement, as well as a black and white photograph of the arrangement in a matte aluminum frame, “was organized so that its colors in black and white reproduction translate into a relatively small range of grey-shades, resulting in an even spread of tones from which high contrasts and extremes on either side of the spectrum are excluded.”
Sherrie Levine
Sherrie Levine, ‘African Masks after Walker Evans’ (2015)
In 1979, Sherrie Levine received widespread acclaim for her series ‘After Walker Evans’, in which she re-photographed 24 of Walker Evans’s photographs out of an exhibition catalogue, depicting the impoverished rural population in Alabama at the end of the 1920s. 35 years later, in a further series after Walker Evans, Levine addresses similar issues with new layers of relevance.
For the series ‘African Masks after Walker Evans’, the artist chose her motifs from an extensive collection of over 400 photographs of African artworks that Walker Evans was commissioned to produce in 1935 by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Evans photographed numerous objects from “African Negro Art,” a major exhibition shown in 1935 at the Museum of Modern Art and other American museums. These photographs were not used for the exhibition catalogue, but were compiled into a portfolio of more than 400 original prints, provided to museums and specialized libraries for educational purposes. This comprehensive project made a significant contribution to the reception of African art in the western aesthetic canon.
Selecting only masks for her series, Sherrie Levine hones in on the question of the identity of the artwork creator. Walker Evans’s photographs already indicate the aesthetic primacy of the works he depicted: through the act of being photographed, they are transformed in status from foreign ritual artifacts into modern sculptures.
The Consortium for Slower Internet
The Consortium for Slower Internet, ‘Nodes’
Discarded consumer wifi routers.
The principles for Slower Internet:
– Duration
– Defamiliarization
– Autonomy
– Divergence
