Sentences with phrase «beuys social sculpture»

[4] Inspired by the concept / model of Joseph Beuys social sculpture, that have the potential to transform society, ART / MEDIA was an extended artwork that included human interactions, creating structures and systems within society using language, thought, objects, events and actions.

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Were Joseph Beuys's «social sculptures» intended as pranks?

Larry Rinder: You have used Joseph Beuys» term «social sculpture» to describe your work.

We wondered about Marcel Broodthaers» Eagle Museum as well as about Joseph Beuys» Social Sculpture.

Featured image: Joseph Beuys planting 7000 oaks, exemplifying the concept of social sculpture as an interdisciplinary art form.

Of course, the rise of black - owned spaces has impact far beyond the market, and many prominent non-profit spaces, such as Rick Lowe's Houston - based Project Row Houses and artist Mark Bradford's Los Angeles - based Art + Practice, are positioned as «social sculpture,» an expanded concept of art coined by the German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys, who sought to use art to address societal issues.

Soon afterwards, Salcedo earned an MA in 1984 at New York University, where she was influenced by the work of Joseph Beuys and his ideas about «social sculpture.»

The German artist, Joseph Beuys (1921 - 1986), is perhaps best known for his «actions», installations and sculpture, but first and foremost he was an artist who was interested in ideas: ideas about how the world, both natural and social, functioned and how the latter could be improved.

At Documenta, seeing your Fairytale (2007) and looking at your blog, increasingly I came to think that your blog is actually a social sculpture in a Joseph Beuys kind of sense.

Bob and Roberta Smith creates brightly coloured text - based paintings with powerful social messages; Yinka Shonibare clads figures in colourful batik to create politically loaded sculptural or photographic tableaux; Thomas Heatherwick is one of the world's leading designers, whose Olympic Cauldron fired the imagination of viewers in the opening ceremony in 2012; Rebecca Warren fuses everything from the ideas of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys to the cartoons of Robert Crumb, creating vitrines and lumpy sculptural figures; Conrad Shawcross brings engineering and sculpture into collisions of mechanics, sound, light and space; and Louisa Hutton, of architects Sauerbruch Hutton, designs buildings with a flair for colour and material richness.

In the late 1960s, artist Joseph Beuys came up with the concept of «social sculpture», which essentially gave art the power to change society.»

Some decades later, Joseph Beuys would articulate his concept of social sculpture by saying, «Without the rose, we can not do it.»

Beuys formulated the theory of Social Sculpture which empowered art with the ability to shape society, to which each individual could contribute, as expressed in his oft - quoted maxim, «Everyone is an artist».

Culture Clash — Sam Korman looks at the legacy of Joseph Beuys's «social sculpture» in North America

His exploration of the communal role of art and everyday actions as art recalls Joseph Beuys's notion of social sculpture (art's potential to transform society through human activity with language, thought, action, and objects).

One of the artist's last great works before his untimely death in 1986, Stag Monuments is emblematic of many of Beuys» fundamental concerns, uniting his belief in Social Sculpture with the powerful symbolism of animals and the reconciliation of opposing forces.

Von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Tatjana Beyond conceptions: Joseph Beuys» Social Sculpture exemplified

That social concern, incidentally, links Hans Haacke to Joseph Beuys, who is contemporaneously developing his «social sculpture» over in Germany.

Famous for his often - quoted saying, «everyone is an artist,» Beuys sought to activate the intellectual and creative capacity in all human beings, culminating in his notion of «social sculpture,» in which the power of art is activated to transform society.

Originally coined by artist Joseph Beuys, social sculpture is a way of structuring art's ability to transform society.

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Largely drawing on themes that are present in Joseph Beuys work, and to be more specific his pioneering concept of social sculpture, money and universal basic income, we will use his figure to discuss the future of art and the future of art / artist / author / performer, post-capitalism.

Having roots in the social sculpture of Joseph Beuys, Bajo uses actual human beings as her material such as found objects, sourced through friends of friends, as part of a «found human» organic process.

Drawing on the Grand Unification Theory in quantum physics, techniques used in biodynamic agriculture and permaculture, Joseph Beuys» concept of «Social Sculpture,» the WWII maxim «Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do, or Do Without,» and Buckminster Fuller's idea that «To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete,» Santoro proposes a hybrid approach to current social and environmental challenges that invites participation and collaboration from her audiSocial Sculpture,» the WWII maxim «Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do, or Do Without,» and Buckminster Fuller's idea that «To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete,» Santoro proposes a hybrid approach to current social and environmental challenges that invites participation and collaboration from her audisocial and environmental challenges that invites participation and collaboration from her audiences.

His influences included Joseph Beuys and his idea of social sculpture, and artists Allan Kaprow and Dieter Roth.

«Joseph Beuys created social sculpture; it's the act of doing things together, where you, the viewer, can be part of the experience.»

Some apply Joseph Beuys» concept of the «social sculpture,» to their work by using the creative activity of non-artists as Roman Ondák does in Passage, (2004).

She works in the liminal region between sculpture and glassmaking to explore the possibility of creating multi-layered messages and metaphors through the use of material, drawing on her doctoral research on the legacy of Joseph Beuys and his ideas on social sculpture.

At the time, while I recognized in the installations in which Tonoshiki threw together and brought into dynamic coexistence waste lumber from demolished houses, driftage from the ocean, abandoned televisions and other domestic waste, and scrapped vehicles on the one hand and natural outdoor settings or orderly exhibition rooms in art museums on the other, a common spirit with the cyber-punk-like junk aesthetic that was then reaching its peak (see the work of Seiko Mikami, for example), the only thing I sensed Tonoshiki was stressing — particularly given that he had been influenced by the social sculpture of Joseph Beuys — was probably that the concept of «reversal» could be found in the act of almost violently recycling useless objects that had served their function and were merely waiting to be disposed.

Drawing inspiration from Joseph Beuys's theory of «social sculpture» and the Situationists, IOTO have explored non-traditional sites for art works where accidental audiences can be found.

So what better time for Martinez to come to Dia: Chelsea to discuss one of its most publicly minded artists, Joseph Beuys, who invented the notion of «social sculpture,» which turned social, cultural and political concerns into art.

From early performances where he explored the role of artist as shaman, Beuys engaged his audience in unprecedented, provocative ways, calling upon art to be genuinely human medium for revolutionary change, «social sculpture» as he described it.

With echoes of Joseph Beuys's expanded concept of art as social sculpture or, more contentiously, Christoph Büchel's recent social practice intervention, THE MOSQUE (2015), at the 56th Venice Biennale, Serra's work is now more widely loved.

In 1972 at documenta 5, Joseph Beuys invited the public to partake in discussions on art, where he expanded his participatory notion of art as social sculpture.

For Zhu, an attraction to the communal aspects of Joseph Beuys (who, not unlike Mao, sought to erase the line between aesthetic and social movements) caused a shift to social sculpture using common materials: stacked piles of rice paper, teapots, bicycles, and soy sauce bottles.