WEEK 14; Social space, inside and out

Tuesday Clarissa led us in a provocative examination of   Dutch  artist Pippilotti Rist's work,  from her 1986 single channel  video "I'm not the girl who misses much" to her 2009 multiple projection environment for MOMA's public atrium, "Pour Your Body Out". Sensual, delightful, digital, female, large scale.

Thursday was our final day for presentations and we  looked at artists working with projections as political actions. Our class happened to take place on the eve of 420, where students were facing serious administrative control of the university's public space, so what better time to become aware of power and control in the spaces and building that surround us, aka the built environment.

Here is one of Krzysztof Wodiczko's outdoor building projections, here on the Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn NY. Wodiczko is an artist originally from Warsaw, Poland, and who now lives and works in New York and Massachusetts. Since the eighties, he has created more than seventy large-scale still image and motion video projections of politically-charged images on architectural facades and monuments worldwide. By using public buildings and monuments as the backdrops for his projections, Wodiczko focuses attention on ways in which monuments and architecture embody collective memory and history. His ART 21 interview is from the season of artist whose subject is POWER.

Last we watched a video from the collective group OCCUPY CINEMA. who have been organizing guerilla short film screenings at Zuccotti Park all year and state that with their mission is to use "the moving image to aid and nourish the Occupy movement." . Their video includes documentation of a recent action where they hand held a projected  video of  ballerina Anna Pavlova dancing  all over  the facade of The Stock Exchange.  Thank the Huffington Post for this story  on Occupy.

Another inspiring week with the comrades of Think Outside the Booth. 

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