Hans Richter

Early Works by Hans Richter, GFT Sunday 3rd October. Live performance by Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra

Ghosts Before Breakfast, 1927

Rhythm 21, 1921

The Land

Initiated in 1998, the land (more direct translation from Thai to English would be, the rice field) was the merging of ideas by different artists to cultivate a place of and for social engagement.

Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kamin Lerdchaiprasert, Uthit Athimana

Bobbly Baker

Bobby Baker

Video of "Cook Dems"

"She is commonly described as a performance artist or live artist, and is one of the most widely acclaimed and popular performance artists working today. It is true that she does perform and is alive but she also works in other media, including radio, TV, film, painting and drawing. Over the past 11 years she has periodically gone mad and is an active campaigner for more acceptance of and human rights for people categorised by society as 'disordered'."

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/events/bobby-baker-in-conversation.aspx

“Performance artist and painter Bobby Baker has daringly confronted the fragilities and pleasure of human existence with challenging honesty. In a powerful feminist tradition of speaking herself - speaking her own truth - she has ranged from hilarity to the deepest pathos. Her vision, sometimes excruciating, has produced a singular and profoundly important body of art work about the struggle and the joys of living.” Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds

Anissa Mack

This work Pies for a Passerby" by Anissa Mack in Brooklyn.

Interesting article about the work and some quotes from it's audience/recipients.

Liam Gillick

Liam Gillick (1964) is a British artist and is mentioned many times in Nicholas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics. His work is also mentioned in Claire Bishop's essay Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics to which he has written a response. The discussion of issues surrounding 'relational art' - it's audience, as well as the intentions of the artist and so on - by artist's and critics/writers is particularly interesting here where there is a development of ideas as responses are written and challenges made.

His work is "underpinned by rigorous theorising: he is as much a writer as a maker of objects. However, Gillick's work is shaped by a very visual awareness of the way different properties of materials,

structures and colour can affect our surroundings and therefore influence the wa

y we behave."

He has published several books which exist alongside and explore ideas of his built work in another way. This makes it particularly interesting to see him as the subject of written critique such as Bishops.

"As art critic Ina Blom has stated:

Artists such as Liam Gillick ...no longer address abstraction as the principle for the creation of distinct minimalist objects, but rather try to create through design spaces for open social interaction [artworks] whose actual use is to be constantly redefined within the situation of the exhibition - without necessarily producing relational-aesthetic models of community.^[8]"

(Provisional) Consultation Partition 2000
Anodizied aluminium, formica, plywood
Courtesy Corvi - Mora, London

Meret Openheim

Associations could be drawn between this and a tea cup I cast form concrete. Mine was a small experiment just trying to use the casting process again but it is interesting to think how our views of something so familiar are changed when we see it in another material.

Georgina Starr

Erik

Sound piece where Starr used a found object with a note to Erik as inspiration for the work. Asking people se met if they new Erik and collecting these stories she created a new, "Super Erik". The work was distributed to subscribers over a 20 month period. And later installed as a sound installation 12 speakers played together, simultaneously to create a cacophony of noise that forced the listener to go right up to the speakers to hear anything clearly.