Artist Presentation: Due January 30th (Please email me with your top 3 choices by Friday January 18th!!)
Artist Presentation
For this assignment, you will be required to research an artist who uses text, or language, in one form or another, in his/her practice, and do a 15-20 min. presentation and post it to the forum by January 30th (5pm). A list of artists to choose from is provided below, and next class you will each sign up for one artist.
You should give a short biography, 'talk' about the artist’s work, provide some context and critical analysis, and show some images. You can do the whole thing with images and text, or you can include a recording of your voice (or a video of you speaking, or...)
You will be marked on the content of your presentation, as well as delivery, and use of time. Although this presentation is relatively short I still expect that you will pack a lot of information into a clear, insightful and succinct presentation. If you were to present this in person it should take 15-20 mins.
Here is a list of artists for you to choose from. I have only listed ‘contemporary’ artists (from about 1970 on) who either work primarily in image and text, or incorporate language, text and image into their art practice. If there is a contemporary artist who you would really like to present on who is not on the list, please ask me (must be an Artist).
I would also like you to do your own research - look up artists who you are interested in, especially those who have an affinity with your own work, and include them in your top 3 requested artists.
- Yoko Ono
- Tauba Auerbach
Douglas Huebler - Ken Lum
John Baldessari
Kay Rosen
Hamish Fulton
Lawrence Weiner
Frances Stark
Sophie Calle
Susan Hiller
Dexter Sinister
Ron Terada
Shirin Neshat
Martha Rosler
NE Thing Company
Raymond Pettibone
Jenny Holzer
Barbara Kruger
Martin Creed
Fiona Banner
Gillian Wearing - Tracey Emin
Bob and Roberta Smith
Vito Acconci
Mary Kelly
Jeremy Deller
Bruce Nauman
Ian Wallace
Kathy Slade
Christos Dikeakos
Joseph Kosuth
Allan Sekula
On Kawara
Robert Barry
Ed Ruscha
The Atlas Group/ Walid Raad - David Shrigley
- Janet Cardiff and George Bures-Miller
Adrian Piper...
There are so many others I could list here, so if there is another artist you are interested in looking into, please feel free to request someone.
Please email me with your top 3 choices by Friday January 18th so I can assign you each an artist soon...