Wednesday, October 16, 2013

"Remembering and Forgetting Conceptual Art" by Alex Klein

1. How does ideas in the article relate to your work and your interpretation about how photography is developing?

2. What are the boundaries that make photography conceptual?

3. How relavant is conceptual art?

4. When does the transition come on between practicle and conceptual art?

5. By placing photography into the aesthetic of conceptual art, are we taking away from conceptual art and art in general?

6. "Conceptual artists’ reduction or amateurization of the photograph must also be acknowledged as an aesthetic decision, no matter how much it may be tied to chance operations or deconstructive procedures" That being said, does conceptualization of the image come from the viewer or the artist, or the two together?

8.  What is the relationship between the two, artist and audience?

9.  How does preformative, documentational photography, and parodic, refuses or eludes depiction, so refuses concepts, exist in the same ideological model? Is there conflict between these two ideas?

10.  At what point do we call a work conceptual – does it begin with an idea or an aesthetic?

11. Bonus Question : WHAT?

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