de-framing art

What is a frame?

The Futurist Manifesto, F. T. Marinetti (1909)1. We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness. !2. The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, audacity and revolt. !4. We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath ... a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace. !9. We want to glorify war — the only cure for the world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman. !10. We want to demolish museums and libraries, fight morality, feminism and all opportunist and utilitarian cowardice.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, The Futurist Manifesto (1909) http://masi.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Zang Tumb Tumb, (1914)

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Viva La France (1915)

Technical manifesto for Futurist painting (1910) by Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini !

7. That universal dynamism must be rendered in painting as a dynamic sensation.

Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting (1910) http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/techpaint.html

Étienne-Jules Marey, Chronophotographs from "The Human Body in Action," Scientific American, 1914

Étienne-Jules Marey's photographic gun (1882) photo by David Monniaux (2006)

Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (1912)

Umberto Boccioni Charge of the Lancers (1915)

Dada Manifesto, Tristan Tzara (1918)...By giving art the impetus of supreme simplicity - novelty - we are being human and true in relation to innocent pleasures; impulsive and vibrant in order to crucify boredom. At the lighted crossroads, alert, attentive, lying in wait for years, in the forest. I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles. !DADA - this is a word that throws up ideas so that they can be shot down !DADA DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING

Anti-art: Collage, Readymade, Political Gatherings, Multi-media, Sound Poetry

Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto (1918) http://www.freemedialibrary.com/index.php/Dada_Manifesto_%281918,_Tristan_Tzara%29

Left: Der Dada. Edited by Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, and George Grosz (1919-1920) Right: Cover of Dada 3 December 1918 edited by Tristan Tzara

Hannah Höch, Cut With the Kitchen Knife (1919)

Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle wheel (1913)

Kurt Schwitters, Ursonate (1922- 32)

Kurt Schwitters, Ursonate (1922-32) http://www.ubu.com/sound/schwitters.html

Tomomi Adachi, Yumiko (1997/2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLFDM4OyfyM

Surrealist Manifesto, André Breton (1924)SURREALISM, n. Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

Accessing the Unconscious: Automatic writing & drawings, Free Association, Dreams, Absurdity, Humor

André Breton, Surrealist Manifesto http://wikilivres.ca/wiki/Surrealist_Manifesto

André Masson - Untitled automatic drawing. 1924

Max Ernst Oedipus Rex (1922)

Max Ernst, Collages from Une semaine de bonté (1934)

Max Ernst, Collages from Une semaine de bonté (1934)

Salvador Dali, Lobster Telephone (1936)

Un Chien Andalu (1929) Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí https://vimeo.com/18540575!!

Entr'Acte (1924) Erik Satie & René Clair

René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (1928-29)

Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs (1965)

Empty gallery space in the Guggenheim Museum http://marinachetner.com/2011/12/18/the-guggenheim-museum-in-all-its-glory/

Inside the White Cube (1976) Brian O’Doherty !We have now reached a point where we see not the art but the space first. ...An image comes to mind of a white, ideal space that, more than any single picture, may be the archetypal image of the twentieth century art. !...The ideal gallery subtracts from the artwork all cues that interfere with the fact that it is “art.” The work is isolated from everything that would detract from its own evaluation of itself. !...The space offers the thought that while eyes and minds are welcome, space-occupying bodies are not. !...There is no time.

B. O’Doherty, (1976), Inside The White Cube, The Ideology of the Gallery, CA, Lapis Press

Alan Kaprow, Yard (1967) Fluxus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus

Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle (1967)All that once was directly lived has become mere representation. !The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living. !....to wake up the spectator who has been drugged by spectacular images & through radical action in the form of the construction of situations, situations that bring a revolutionary reordering of life, politics, and art.

A criticism towards capitalist society, consumerism, mass media, globalization, life deprived from real experiences and social interaction.

Guy Bebord, Society of the Spectacle (1967)

Situationists International (1957 - 1972)Construction of situations not artifactsDétournement: turning expressions of the capitalist system and its media culture against itself

Psychogeography / Unitary Urbanism: Precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals

Dérive / Drift: Technique of locomotion without a goal, in which one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.

Situationist comics http://artandsocialchange.blogspot.hk/2010/10/situationism.html

Banksy, Ronald McDonald and Mickey Mouse (2004)

Constant Nieuwenhuys, New Babylon,1959-1974

Constant Nieuwenhuys, New Babylon, Concert Hall for Electronic Music, 1959-1974

Situationists Slogans

In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.

Boredom is counterrevolutionary.

Don’t liberate me — I’ll take care of that.

Occupy the factories.

Humanity won’t be happy till the last capitalist is hung with the guts of the last bureaucrat.

May 68 Slogans http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/graffiti.htm

Photos from May 68 http://libcom.org/gallery/france-1968-photo-gallery

High Red Center, Advocating Tokyo Cleaning & Organizing Activities (1964), NY (1966)

Hyperart, Thomoson by Genpei Akasegawa http://youtu.be/xxKC1oKQi3w

Kaifu Station, Japan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaifu_Station

example of Thomason http://cyawan.exblog.jp/3617312/

more examples of Thomason http://www.mudainodocument.com/archives/54343337.html

The Guerrilla Girls http://www.guerrillagirls.com/

Guerrilla Girls, Billboard (1989)

Guerrilla Girls, from Guerrilla Girls Talk Back (1989)

Guerrilla Girls, from Guerrilla Girls Talk Back (1989)

Guerrilla Girls, from Guerrilla Girls Talk Back (1989)

The Yes Men http://theyesmen.org/

The Yes Men, The Yes Men Fix the World (2009) http://theyesmenfixtheworld.com/

The Yes Men, New York Times (2009)

The Yes Men, The Yes Men Fix the World (2009) http://theyesmenfixtheworld.com/

Drift & Frame Assignment !- Form a group & wonder freely based on free association and unitary urbanism - follow your eyes, nose, and ears. !- Find places that are; *compositionally pleasant or interesting *prohibit or imply certain behavior *can be defined by sound or smell *don’t make sense or are not functional *hidden or imply a hidden space *that you think is art !- Take pictures and post to the forum (more than 1 less than 3) with name of your group members !- Give it a title