Assignment for a writing heavy lecture course, but, very helpful for my practice as well, so I document it here hehe
Assignment Overview
You will give a 10-minute presentation on two artists that relates to your practice.
- Select two of the artists cited in your thesis proposal.
- Find at least 3 academic references analyzing the artists works and placing them within a historical context.
- Why is their work significant within art history?
- What were the social conditions they were responding to?
- Were there any technological developments, new materials or processes they were responding to or utilizing in their practices?
- Compare and contrast the two artists in relation to each other. How were they similar? Different?
- Collect several images of the artists’ work,
- installation details
- working process
- Discuss the work in the relation to your artwork.
- How do your concepts and materials relate to theirs?
- Are there similarities within the social conditions that your work is responding to?
- How are you extending innovation in your work beyond what they already did?
- Why are they imporant references for your work beyond just style or aesthetics?
My Presentation
Jill Magid
“My artwork is often about engaging systems of government power, more recently corporations…” (Magid 0:17-0:24).
Evidence Locker
- explores surveillance and intimacy through Liverpool’s extensive CCTV system
- initiated the project by writing daily subject access requests to the Liverpool Police Department, asking them to track her.
- Over 31 days, collected and edited this footage into a series of videos,
- Created a book that presented her subject access requests as a novella, critiquing and repurposing a system designed for control into a medium for personal expression and artistic exploration.
Created a book of her correspondences “This book is a collection of my subject access requests forms that reads as a love story and a novella through the CCTV cameras” (Magid 2:22-2:28).
“Liverpool citywide CCTV system, one of the largest of its kind, holds footage for 31 days before that footage cascades off the system unless the police department puts it in an evidence locker or a citizen writes a subject access request form” (Magid 1:27-1:42).
“I filled it out like a letter to a lover and sent them in with the address of ‘dear observer’” (Magid 2:11-2:16).
“The videos I made move from a Big Brother distant point of view to one of intense intimacy” (Magid 3:31-3:34).