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Sunday, 10 May 2015
Overhead Projector Experiments
Hair
Portrait - Mother and Daughter
Dust from a Doctor's Waiting Room
Light through an old contact lens
Janine Antoni - Notes for Dissertation
Quote from http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=82028
"I call the piece Gnaw because I'm interested in the bite as a kind of primal urge. I love to look at a little baby when they put everything in their mouth in order to know it, and through that process, they destroy it. I was interested in the bite because it was both intimate and destructive. It summed up my relationship to art history. I feel attached to my artistic heritage and I want to destroy it. It defined me as an artist, and it excludes me as a woman, both at the same time."
Quotes from: http://bombmagazine.org/article/2191/janine-antoni
"Imagining is much more provocative and makes each viewer’s story slightly different. By imagining me, the viewer’s experience turns out to be about their own wish fulfillment. It is an effort to connect. It’s a crazy thing—to remove in an effort to connect—but I’m interested in that fine line between how much information I give and how much information I withhold, and my whole body of work plays with that."
"The first time I did Loving Care, it was not a performance; I did it as a relic and I showed it that way. It didn’t work! I realized that it wasn’t like Gnaw where the history was on the surface of the object and a viewer could re-create how it was made by looking at it. While making Loving Care, I realized that the power was in watching me mop the floor."
"I’m really careful about what I show and what I don’t show. There is no documentation of me biting the chocolate in Gnaw, but there are other processes which I do put out there. There’s this core meaning which is in the object, and the peripheral information that informs the object."
"I call the piece Gnaw because I'm interested in the bite as a kind of primal urge. I love to look at a little baby when they put everything in their mouth in order to know it, and through that process, they destroy it. I was interested in the bite because it was both intimate and destructive. It summed up my relationship to art history. I feel attached to my artistic heritage and I want to destroy it. It defined me as an artist, and it excludes me as a woman, both at the same time."
Quotes from: http://bombmagazine.org/article/2191/janine-antoni
"Imagining is much more provocative and makes each viewer’s story slightly different. By imagining me, the viewer’s experience turns out to be about their own wish fulfillment. It is an effort to connect. It’s a crazy thing—to remove in an effort to connect—but I’m interested in that fine line between how much information I give and how much information I withhold, and my whole body of work plays with that."
"The first time I did Loving Care, it was not a performance; I did it as a relic and I showed it that way. It didn’t work! I realized that it wasn’t like Gnaw where the history was on the surface of the object and a viewer could re-create how it was made by looking at it. While making Loving Care, I realized that the power was in watching me mop the floor."
"I’m really careful about what I show and what I don’t show. There is no documentation of me biting the chocolate in Gnaw, but there are other processes which I do put out there. There’s this core meaning which is in the object, and the peripheral information that informs the object."
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