While it operates as a gallery, it is also conceived as a kind
of social sculpture in which each exhibition is also a collaboration with a changing tent.
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.
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.
Some decades later, Joseph Beuys would articulate his concept of
social sculpture by saying, «Without the rose, we can not do it.»
McCabe's
social sculpture workshop will take place at Blaffer Art Museum on Tuesday evenings from 5:30 - 8:30 pm, beginning August 28 and ending December 4, 2012.
Residencies include The Riverside Art Museum and Joshua Tree National Park Residency Program, Cuts and Burns Artist Fellowship, The Outpost, Brooklyn, NY, and The Old School
for Social Sculpture, Catskills, NY.
In the words of participating artist Antony Gormley: «The most
powerful social sculpture of our times is made by the quiet performances of the homeless within the shelter provided by the entrances to the shops and restaurants of our inner cities.
Sarah Lowndes, whose
book Social Sculpture charts some of the history of feminist activism in the city, recently chaired a conference at the CCA on the subject.
[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.
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.
Located at the center of the MASS MoCA factory campus in Courtyard C, the
outdoor social sculpture of colorful overlapping canopies has become home to many MASS MoCA events, performances, and concerts.
As an undercurrent, the idea of «a great debate» as an exhibition seems to aim at something closer to
Beuysian social sculpture.
Adam Kleinman and Cally Spooner offer contemporary responses to themes
including social sculpture, global politics and the production of reality, which resonate with Latham's understanding of time and history.
Also on view in the Project Room are Simón Vega:
Sub-Tropical Social Sculptures and Ron Terada's public art commission Art on the Move, curated by Dominic Molon.
[7] Since 2012 he has been working on his on -
going social sculpture / environment, which attempts to realize «art as social activity» and to reinforce the notion that «the process of art making is the art.»
She conceived of Pocket Utopia not as a commercial gallery, but rather as an extension of her
own social sculpture.
Yael Bartana's recent film Inferno is to be screened on 14 and 16 May alongside live performances of Bernstein's Symphony No. 3; Kevin Beasley's performance will study the physicality of sound and take place during the Dallas Museum of Art Friday Late Nights, on 15 May; and Monte Laster's
social sculpture Destination, in Five Movements will see its world premiere.
Beatrice Glow Queens, NY From left to right: Floating Library, October 2014,
interactive social sculpture, one - month library aboard a ship (174 ft by 32 ft).
During his last year at USD he initiated and developed a
rolling social sculpture consisting of a 1967 Chevy Bread truck called «Untitled Space.»
Emerging from the dynamic arts program at Goldsmiths College, University of London, in the late 1980s, Gillick expanded
into social sculpture, cultural critique, and «Relational Aesthetics,» the critic Nicolas Bourriaud's term for art within a context of relationships.
Steina and Woody Vasulka introduced the organizers to Godfrey Reggio, director of the film Koyannisqatsi (1982) who provided guidance on
organizing Social Sculpture events as public service announcements.
Von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Tatjana Beyond conceptions: Joseph Beuys» Social Sculpture exemplified
How can we encourage individuals to rise above their own limitations and old habits that were dictated by their various upbringings, while working to transform the Rail into a
post-Beuysian social sculpture, an artwork?
Rick Lowe -
Toward Social Sculpture will be on view at the Glassell School of Art, 5101 Montrose Blvd.. The school is open 9 a.m. - 10 p.m. Monday - Thursday and 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Friday - Sunday.
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.
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».
From his beginnings in a free school and commune, through his 25 years as one of the artists of General Idea, in his deep involvement with founding and developing collaborative and social structures such as Art Metropole, the NY Art Book Fair and AA Bronson's School for Young Shamans, and through his current collaborations with younger generations, he has focused on the politics of decision - making and on living life radically
as social sculpture.
«Joseph Beuys
created social sculpture; it's the act of doing things together, where you, the viewer, can be part of the experience.»
Antony Gormley said: «The most
powerful social sculpture of our times is made by the quiet performances of the homeless within the shelter provided by the entrances to the shops and restaurants of our inner cities.
The writer Sarah Lowndes, whose
book Social Sculpture is a chronicle of Glasgow's rise to prominence, has linked the city's artistic culture to its notable night life — she draws a line from postwar dancehalls to rave culture to the thriving independent music scene.
Featured image: Joseph Beuys planting 7000 oaks, exemplifying the concept
of social sculpture as an interdisciplinary art form.
He developed a radical art concept of «
Social Sculpture», as he explains clearly in his selected quotes.
Were Joseph Beuys's «
social sculptures» intended as pranks?
Objects, storytelling, and sound function as
a social sculpture explored in duration.
These discursive contexts will also provide a foundation to explore more recent tendencies related to unmonumental and
social sculpture, post-fordism and other concerns, particularly among contemporary Australian artists.