from fb, a teacher...
Martin Hunter Kim Underhill Pluess, glad this video might be useful. My view of art and the viewer may not be mainstream and might be a bit "out there" in a conventional sense. But for me, art only becomes complete within the mind of the viewer and what the viewer brings to the art is absolutely part of the process. I do not like the idea of art behind a barricade or rope line making the idea of separation too important. So I look at the process of "art and the viewer" as having a wide variety of hooks any one of which can capture the viewer's imagination. And no hook is better than another. Art can tell a story, it has a time and place so there is history to be taught. There is the human side of the artist and his life. There is a connection between the work and the viewer perhaps. There is the process of creating art. There are so many hooks and the role of the teacher is to experiment, seeing what works with different viewers. Take me along. I will carry your bags and try to be useful. That could be my dream job. LOL.
Turner Prize: "It for Others" by Duncan Campbell
The film was inspired by a 1953 work by Alain Resnais and Chris Marker called Statues Also Die, which explored and lamented the colonial commercialisation of African art.
Campbell’s film widens the subject and has four episodes, one of which uses dancers from Michael Clark’s company to explore economic theories and ideas in Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. In another Campbell chronicles a 1971 IRA martyr image used today to brighten up Christmas stockings. In the opening segment there is a mild swipe at the British Museum – he was unable to use its Benin sculptures for his film – and the museum’s director, Neil MacGregor, for being selective in his description of them.
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