What is Art?

For example

Barbara Kruger

Barabra Kruger is an Artist who uses many words in her practice. Kruger’s Belief + Doubt is something very interesting that has caught my interests. It’s an installation at the Hirshhorn Museum. Kruger had filled the space with an installation of text that reflected the idea of democracy, power and belief.

Even though I do not find this work particularly intellectually challenging, I find it uses the principle of conceptualism very cleverly. This installation is as if the viewers are walking into her mind and all her thoughts, opinions and questions bombard the viewers mind.

The only way the viewer can interpret the work is by reading it. Once the words are read and in the mind of the viewer, that is the moment when the work is successful in its existence.

i find words are very telepathic and I find this work telepathic.

If there was no “Reader” the work wouldn’t’t exist as its purpose, to get a thought across.

I find this is not an expressive piece of Art, in the sense of being from an interpretation of an idea. I feel it is to the point, straight to the idea. Which is exactly the sort of thing I would like to achieve in my work.

WORDS

Referring back to post five, I have decided to produce Art through the medium of words.

I feel words are the only way I can express myself sometimes. This is because all my work is ideas and consists a lot from a thought process. My work in essence is a kind of language. Sian’s language.

Ideas and thoughts are developed from words. Words are then produced into a language, for others to understand.

The presentation of the words will then make my ideas exists in the world. Using words will also, not influence my ideas to much from interpretation. What I mean is, from myself attempting to make my idea into a physical thing is only a representation of the idea and words are the closest I can get to the idea.

Making sense?

Words are also conceptual. Words are not anything physical, just a representation of language, like a symbol. The language does not exist until the viewer has read the words. The words are then, in the mind of the viewer accompanied with their interpretations, which would then develop the idea.

RANT

To be honest Art really pisses me off.

I do not know how to express my ideas and have conversations with other Artists, especially in the presence of a debate. I do not speak the same language as an Artist. I have no clue what the Artist is saying when I communicate with one, they use words and names I have no idea about.

So I just resort to making Art as I understand my own language.

I have been engulfed by Arts contradiction of existence with its spiral of depth, because, as I said, “I resort to making “Art”.

The thing is, I am not an Artist and I do not make Art, the reality is, my ideas are simply, made into Art by the environment I am surrounded in.

Confusing or does it make sense?

10^th January 2014

I need to act upon my ideas quickly, respond and record. This is because the more I think about the idea the more my thoughts and ideas will progress and the original idea develops into something different, therefore the original idea becomes an old idea.

When my idea exists as a physical thing it is not the same as the original idea, as to make the idea physical, the physical then becomes an interpretation of the mental idea.

As soon as the physical thing is perceived by the viewers, then again it is turned into something else from interpretation.

The Artist gives the idea, which encourages the viewer to think and interpret. The more they (the viewer) think, the more the original idea will turn into the viewer’s own ideas.

So… now the idea has gone through 3 stages to evolve and exists, I have just had another **idea!!**

**IDEA** 14.15

I’m going to make a chart, yes! The cycle of the birth of the idea!!

Roughly..

The Artist brain has the idea à the Artist makes the idea physical à the viewer sees, interprets and relates according to their own realities à the idea is reborn/grown into something new

This process of interpretation reminds me of a process of Chinese whispers…their we go another idea!!

**IDEA** 14.30

Chinese whispers

It’s been 10 minuets, I have already moved onto another idea, from the previous idea at the beginning of this post, and the previous idea is now an old idea.

like Chinese whispers, when people tell things, by the time it gets to the last person the original whisper is something new.

How can I make this physical? These idea’s are all good but they do not exists unless it’s made physical?

So…**IDEA**14.38

Another idea, from a previous idea and now the previous idea is now an old idea.

(This would be good to print!!)

Now I need to stop!!..before I develop a new idea

**SPIRAL** **IDEA**

8^th January 2014, 14.21pm <– when original idea came to my mind

I find Art a massive spiral of ideas and interpretations. As an Artist, you are constantly opening new doors, to new ideas through research and observations. Thiers always an answer that takes you to another question, to another answer and so on.

I think of Art like this…

If you were on the moon and you fell of the moon, (assume all gravity has gone, non existent). You would never ever stop falling because there is no bottom to space. This is a head banger because how far can, forever go on for?

I need to produce something, in the Art world, to represent this feeling of the on going falling. Hmm…

A never-ending piece of string, maybe?, But that will finish at some point so its not quit right.

Maybe my viewers need to experience the feeling of falling. The sense of falling which the viewer does not know when they are going to hit the ground.

The viewer could walk into a dark room, dark because this will make the viewer feel a bit insecure. A partner stand’s behind them and the viewer falls back, into someone else’s arms. The moment that they are falling is the important part, as this bit is the metaphor for how Art is, never ending.

Ideally, I would like to take my viewers to a bungee jump and push them of. When the viewer hits the ground ill tell them, “that’s what Art is”…but of course because of heath and safety I cant take the viewers on to a bungee jump and make them jump of, OR can i?… So for them to fall back into someone else’s arms is more realistic.

This idea is not quit their, the viewer falling back into someone else’s arms is not quit right and to be honest will implicate a lot of complications, but its on the right path of what I want…I just need a good metaphor…ill keep you updated.