Excuse me, is this a work of art?
http://www.youtube.com/v/V3Nha7gHGqQ
Found this video (by Ana Velez) via the Wooster Collective feed… it does a great job at poking fun at and underscoring the absurdity of modern, Dadaist, avant-garde art. This video brought to mind Marcel Duchamp and his idea that:
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
This idea certainly extends beyond the world of Art and can encompass any creative act… right now I am especially thinking of Roland Barthes and his notions on the death of the author.
really cool project!! It’s amazing at the end how people react when they realize they are relaxing ON a work of art! Really cool and intelligent job. I wonder what is the reaction of the people and staff at MoMA, jajaja!
Yeah… that’s the gold in this video. Right there you see how people are conditioned to revere the art object and then, as it sinks in, they search and find meaning… it must be interactive.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your interest in my project. I really like your blog.
Duchamp was definitely a big inspiration for this project. If you check, you will see how the name of the artists that I used were not randomly chosen. A really fun part of this project was doing the research to make the labels consistent with the objects and furniture I intervened.
It came out great… keep up the good work! The world needs it’s art.
I think this is great.