Calendars:Fine Art Calendar/Fine Art Calendar/21-04-2017 -Event 1
Workshop with Jeremiah Day: The Public Thing
Duration: 12.00 - 17.00
In this one day workshop we will each make a major new work of public art. We will be given unlimited possibilities to test our artistic vocabulary against the tragic, epic, inspiring and demoralizing human landscape, by which we too are conditioned. This will be an imaginary work, a proposal articulated in some form, but maybe that's not as important as it seems.
In another field they call them "paper architects" - people who further the vocation through coming up with mostly unbuilt projects.
In the visual arts, Claes Oldenburgh amongst others developed his public art practice first by coming up with fanciful proposals in the form of drawings, models and collages, which have a status of their own and are exhibited and collected as important works, even as they are only proposals.
For example:
http://www.artbook.com/377570700x.html
Optional further reading:
http://www.theivorytower.tv/day.html
http://www.academia.edu/25330436/Not_To_Be_Answered_In_Words