Janine Antoni http://www.janineantoni.net/touch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_n2kfqNmpY https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s2/janine-antoni-in-loss-desire-segment/
Marina Abramovich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWixdA2xTSs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJte841c4A https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/25/marina-abramovic-ulay-walk-the-great-wall-of-china https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SslxObPDAQ&list=PL8SI7K5HjPk1poJamm-H-a8IfGm8KNmB_&index=5&t=0s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcyquvDEe0o Wafaa Bilal discusses Shoot an Iraqi https://lannan.georgetown.edu/past-guests/wafaa-bilal/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AupnquYDc9M Ways of coping, locked himself in the cage. Shooting people. Shot 600,00 times in 30 days. 105,000 tatoo. (death on the back)
Zhang Huan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szyZXfq8Z7A http://www.zhanghuan.com/wzMF/info_74.aspx?itemid=1145 Use naked human body to do performance art. Inspired by Kungfu and stuff. Using ash as sculpture. "A good artist is illogical and mess things up" Spreading naked is prohibited by law.
Catherine Opie https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/catherine-opies-groundbreaking-queer-portraiture/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW0rGbhWZY8 https://hyperallergic.com/500133/initial-thoughts-and-highlights-from-the-2019-whitney-biennial/ Portrait series, dealing with aid... queer lesbian Collect photographs, photograph queer community in the 90s. Back then was a controversial thing, losing job, persistence. permanent installation "Somewhere in the Middle" (2011) at Hillcrest Hospital,: risk of not beeing see
Sherrie Levine https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/267214 https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/sherrie-levine/ Legal trouble The series, entitled After Walker Evans, became a landmark of postmodernism, both praised and attacked as a feminist hijacking of patriarchal authority
Richard Prince is an appropriation artist - copyright issue https://www.businessinsider.com/authorship-is-dead-and-richard-prince-is-in-legal-trouble-again-2015-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CHtqaDefbI https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/david-hammons-follows-his-own-rules https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/david-hammons-and-the-politics-of-visibility-3612/ African American flag Blasphemy, legal issue
Antanas Mockus (Bogota Mayor – bullet vest open heart https://walkerart.org/magazine/antanas-mockuss-despair-brave-new-worlds https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/opinion/the-art-of-changing-a-city.html https://www.eurozine.com/if-art-is-a-pretentious-concept-sub-art-isnt/
Willi Ruge https://www.moma.org/interactives/objectphoto/assets/essays/Eskildsen.pdf https://ephemeralcities.com/2015/04/10/willi-ruges-parachute-selfie-1931-pulling-the-rug-from-under-the-feet-of-control/ Physical risk: doing parachute jump
general https://www.christies.com/features/Bound-to-Fail-7245-3.aspx
I mean, physical risks is not that interesting. the bar is rather low: if you go to street to kill people- then that's pretty easy to handle by police, but to get FBI involved, that's really something. - building a nuclear weapon
Question Democracy
no real reason for it (ie. bad decision)
no real democracy, economy rules
Critical Art Ensemble (organization)
new media (technology) - do political art
besides computer revolution: biological revolution
1997-2007
What happened:
his wife died of congenital failure
called 911 and reported (some source said it was him, some source said it was wife's servant of some kind)
working on an exhibit about genetically modified agriculture for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Buffalo police notified FBI cuz they find patridishes suspitious
got arrested for 22 hours
raided the house
a grand jury refused to bring any bioterrorism charges, but did indict Kurtz on federal criminal mail fraud and wire fraud charges (allegedly ordered and mailed the non-pathogenic bacteria ) - nonhazardous=redefine
The US Department of Justice didn't respond so case ended 2008
Couple in the cage: https://beautifultrouble.org/case/the-couple-in-the-cage/ (dress up in crazy outfit in a cage travel)
Toxic gas: company took no responsibility Yes Men Bhopal Disaster BBC (pretended to be people in the company) - fake representative
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