"These artists, herself among them, eschew the constricting limitations not only of artistic conventions but of the traditional institutional spaces of their production, such as studios, museums and galleries. They choose the freedom of working in real places with real people addressing everyday issues.”Jacob spent most of her lecture talking about her time in South Carolina, running the public art pieces there. At the very beginning of the lecture however she
did explain why museums were inadequate for doing some pieces because they were to small
and because they thought of themselves as the only ones who had knowledge of what art was.
By not having art exhibitions in a museum the artists were freed from the constraints of what
is typically considered art and by the limited amount of space even inside of a warehouse. One
example would be the painting of a house in camouflage patterns and colors. This would not
have been possible in a museum setting because of the size of the project and also more
conservative people did not want her to do the piece at also if she had to do it in a museum
they would not have allowed it. The second part of the quote is not easily obtainable in a
museum, but is much easier in public places where the people are. Another art piece in
the lecture was the one door wide house. This was built in reference to the one room wide
houses near where the art piece was built. the same artist created a tiny park in an empty
lot across the street from the house and put up a billboard that has a picture of children
looking up at a real flag pole flying the artists interpretation of the American flag.
Friday, November 2, 2007
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