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Tree of Influences - Kate Taylor

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit Tiravanija was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961. He was raised in Thailand, Ethiopia and Canada. He moved to Manhattan in 1982 and attended various schools and programs including Ontario College of Arts and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  

Untitled (Free) 1992

"In this deceptively simple conceptual piece, the artist invites the visitor to interact with contemporary art in a more sociable way, and blurs the distance between artist and viewer. You aren’t looking at the art, but are part of it—and are, in fact, making the art as you eat curry and talk with friends or new acquaintances." source

Rirkrit Tiravanija | Brisbane interview

untitled 1999 (tomorrow can shut up and go away)

untitled 1999 (tomorrow can shut up and go away)

Francis Alys

Belgian artist Francis Alys is a conceptual and performance artist, blending contributions from other multiple disciplines such as video, photography, drawing and painting. He has lived and worked in Mexico City since 1985. His influences are many including literary authors Augusto Monterroso, Franz Kafka, photographer/critic Susan Sontag, artists Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Philip Guston. His performances included elements of socially engaged art that evokes emotions of the absurd, the impossible, of physical endurance and danger by placing himself in situations—“how far can I go?” But within these artistic elements there is a sense of insight, humor, and empathy in subject matter. 

When Faith Moves Mountains, Lima Peru 2002

 Alys directed over 500 volunteers from the local neighborhood to shovel sand at a sand dune, up and over. What inspired When Faith Moves Mountains, was Alys's visit to Lima Peru and witnessing the growth of shantytowns for the poor and the refugees of Peru’s long-standing political upheavals.
"We achieved the moment of the utmost social sublime, a collective emotion." The act started as something absurd and impossible, but instilling into the volunteers a sense of being able accomplish anything against great odds.

Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes Doing Something Leads to Nothing) Mexico City 1997

 Alys pushes a block of ice out on the streets of Mexico City all day until it melts into a puddle.

"Perhaps my goal has always been to strip down my scenarios to a few words only, so they can be liberated from the burden of documentation, of its physical weight. The temporality of “making something” – we are aware of how lengthy the process must be, of melting a huge and heavy block of ice. It is this temporary relationship with the object being made, the physical and emotion, and the relationship to the environment--streets of Mexico City and the pedestrians who are the witnesses, that defines Sometimes Doing Something Leads to Nothing.

Game Over, Culiacan Sinaloa, Mexico 2011

"I ended up driving my old vocho from my place in Mexico City to the Botanical Garden in Culiacán, about 750 miles away. I was curious about the classic road-trip genre and had serious doubts about the relevance of an artist intervening in a context as complex as Culiacán’s. As we know, the place is riddled with conflict due to the narcos there. So, I developed this rather absurd script for a road trip whose ending was that once I got to the Botanical Garden I would crash the car into a tree. When we presented the piece to the people running the garden, who had commissioned it, we said it dealt with empathy between nature and culture, or something like that. The plan was for the car to remain in the site and devolve into a sort of giant flowerpot for the garden’s flora and fauna, becoming integrated with the local ecosystem."

Other videos by Francis Alys:

Francis Alys videos 

"Reel-Unreel", Kabul Afghanistan 2011

"Watercolor", the Red Sea, Aqaba Jordan, the Black Sea, Trabzon Turkey 2010