Week 2  sherda sanders

The artists in this section still used the gallery to display their works; they just choose to do it in a non-traditional way. But was is really necessary to use the gallery? What about the artists who used to hospital.  I feel that the gallery is used to much as a crutch to legitimize ones work, I’m not saying its wrong to be in a gallery but its not really necessary, it some what not effective to get a message out at all if your in a galley because you are showing to the same old people.  When it come to photographing installations that is all you really can do to document them, but you cannot critique or experience an installation based off of a photograph, installation are truly one of those things that you had to be there for.   As for institutions having the rights to artist work because they help to fund them is bullshit, because the institution one is only going to fund someone they can make money off of in the first place, or who they can boast that they had first on their way to fame.  With out the artist in the idea/work would not have been presented to make money off of to begin with unless someone working on the board is coming up with these great revelations.  In order for the museum to own an artist work they either need to out right buy it from the artist or actually own the artist themselves and I believe that could be considered slavery and therefore illegal.

It is clear that installation art needs and audience, to view and interact with it.  I really liked Blood Sushi Bank but it is impossible to experience installation through books, magazines, art reviews, Internet, etc unless those are the intended presentation for the art.  I have always been fond of the space houses like in Skop (I think that’s the right one) that were meant to replace modular homes in the something like to 60’s, but as far as and installation piece I would consider it to be “found art” and I have a hard time accepting “found art” as a real art form. I however think this piece is more legitimate than that of the artist who find kitchy items from the ‘50’ and arranges them on platform, circles and whatnot I mean give me a break I can’t believe he gets paid to do that, and is asked to be in galleries further proving that a person cannot rely on galleries to legitimatize art.