Sculpture Situations: August 2013

Friday, August 30, 2013

Performance Art and Sculpture/Installation at Saunder's Farm

Performance Art and Sculpture/Installation at Saunder's Farm http://collaborativeconcepts.org/exhibits.html The Farm Project 2013 Collaborative Concepts at Saunders Farm 853 Old Albany Post Road, Garrison NY 10524 Sculpture MFA alum: Maureen McCourt and Steve Rossi in the show. Aug. 31, Sat., 2-6 pm: Opening Reception (Rain date: Sun., Sept. 1 or Mon., Sept. 2) Performance Art from 2:00 pm Music from 3:30 pm

RAFT: AN INSTALLATION BY MICHAEL ASBILL

RAFT: AN INSTALLATION BY MICHAEL ASBILL SUNY Ulster | Muroff Kotler Arts Gallery on the Stone Ridge campus. Exhibition: Friday, September 6 - 27, 2013 Opening Reception: September 6, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. http://apps.sunyulster.edu/events/1322

Sunday, August 25, 2013

ANONYMOUS: CONTEMPORARY TIBETAN ART | Cuurent Exhibition at the Dorsky Museum of Art | SUNY New Paltz

http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/exhibitions/anonymous.html

Saturday, August 24, 2013

At Home in Detroit | Savannah Blum's Summer Undergraduate Research Blog

http://athomeindetroit.tumblr.com/

Ai Wei Wei | Sunflower seeds

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/unilever-series-ai-weiwei-sunflower-seeds

Joseph Beuys quotes on Social Sculpture

"My objects are to be seen as stimulants for the transformation of the idea of sculpture. . . or of art in general. They should provoke thoughts about what sculpture can be and how the concept of sculpting can be extended to the invisible materials used by everyone. "THINKING FORMS--how we mold our thoughts or SPOKEN FORMS--how we shape our thoughts into words or SOCIAL SCULPTURE--how we mold and shape the world in which we live: SCULPTURE AS AN EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; EVERYONE IS AN ARTIST. That is why the nature of my sculpture is not fixed and finished, processes continue in most of them: chemical reactions, fermentations, color changes, decay, drying up. Everything is in a state of change." “Only on condition of a radical widening of definitions will it be possible for art and activities related to art [to] provide evidence that art is now the only evolutionary-revolutionary power. Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build ‘A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART’… EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AN ARTIST who – from his state of freedom – the position of freedom that he experiences at first-hand – learns to determine the other positions of the TOTAL ART WORK OF THE FUTURE SOCIAL ORDER.”