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Site Specific Art Case Study

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By Breanna

Activity 1: Christo and Jeanne-Claude

What qualities make art site specific?

How have artists influenced the 'public realm' of art?

What are common sites where artists have created and exhibited their art? Consider their Practice.

How do artists plan and approach Site Specific art?

What are the benefits of Site Specific art?

Discuss in detail the concepts of permanence, temporality and ephemeral.

Provide a definition for each of the following in terms of Site Specificity-
Functional, decorative, iconic, integrated, interpretive, commemorative, temporary.

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Challenging Location Paradigms -

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Quality of Experience -

Extension - MoMA Multimedia.

Andy Goldsworthy.

Frames:
How do Andy Goldsworthy's sculptures, Midsummer Snowballs, 2001, challenge the permanence of art objects?

Conceptual Framework:
Using natural mediums as a platform for creating works, artist Andy Goldsworthy relies heavily on site specific environments. Analyse the ways in which the artwork, River and Tides, 2001, represent and comment on the world.

Practice:
"Not all art is created with the intention of it lasting forever". Discuss this quote with reference to Andy Goldsworthy's practice

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Andy Goldsworthy Extension.

Write a paragraph (200 words) on the intricacy and ephemeral qualities of Andy Goldsworthy's works.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

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Frames:
How have Christo and Jeanne-Claude communicated a sense of site specificity in the works Surrounded Islands?

Practice:
With reference to the video Excerpt from the film "Wrapped Coast", a 1969 documentary by Michael Blackwood, analyze Christo and Jeanne-Claude's artistic practice.

Conceptual Framework:
With reference to plates 1,2 and 3 how has the work 'The Gates', by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude influenced audience reaction?

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Warlukurlangu Collaboration - Sculpture by the Sea.

  1. With reference to Plate 1, how does the installation 'Water Dreaming', 2015 by the Warlukurlangu Collaboration, communicate social attitudes and customs?

  2. How have the Warlukurlangu artists explored the relationships between the artwork, world and audience in the 'Water Dreaming', 2015 installation. Refer to plate 2 in your response.

  3. How has the traditional dot painting in Plate 3, 'Water Dreaming' by artist Jangala 'Shorty' Robertson, influenced the practice of the Warlukurlangu Collaboration in re-creating 'Water Dreaming' for Sculpture by the Sea?