Nle interaction$

How much do I owe you?
An exhibition by No Longer Empty

Artists who make work that requires viewer interaction

Looking quite empty, not to mention busted up


Looking very empty…although cleaned up a little bit


Less than a month later… It’s a real art space!


Give and Take (2012)
Sal Randolf Money, plates, people

“For me, the artwork happens
inside the other person as they
experience the situation—as they
think about, give away or spend
the money.”


How would you choose to interact with this piece of art?


Money Actions (ongoing)
Sal Randolf Money, string, people

Money Actions is an ongoing series in which I have
been using the social dimensions of money as the
basis of an interactional and interventionist art
practice. I give away money in streets, stores,
galleries, talks, dinners, cafés, sometimes
anonymously, sometimes in groups or person to
person—often to people who give it away in turn.
Because money is caged in rules, simply acting
outside these rules opens up new ranges of social
action and interaction. The money serves as a
provocation for thought, conversation, feeling. In
my experience, people are more reluctant to
receive than to give; it’s awkward for people to be
put in that situation, and I like to linger there.

Money Actions (ongoing)
Sal Randolf Money, string, people

Class responses:

What issues does this artwork raise for the viewer/participant?
•Greed, desire, temptation, honor

How does money usually enter your life?
Receiving Earning Finding
(from family/friend) (from working) (randomly and rarely)
•Sometimes awkward to •Seems to be worth more •Exciting to find, it can
receive than it actually is. change the whole ‘feel’ of a
•More likely to save rather •Less likely to spend day.
than spend •Very likely to save or •Less likely to save.
•If spent, it’s usually for “protect” • Very likely to spend on
something special that you •It’s “mine!” immediate desires,
normally wouldn’t be able food/drink
to get.

Sal Randolf

Bloodbank
Artefacting Working
Group

Answer the question:
What is your Blood worth?

Leave some of your blood behind…

And you get a nice red balloon!

“Members of the community and citizens of NYC
will come together with project leaders Alex White
Mazzarella and Iandry Randriamondroso to Artefact what
compels people to give, all the way through the donation
of blood. Bloodbank is an online video registry and a
storefront art incubator space where the social dynamics
of blood and everyday gifting will fuse as a multimedia
experience about how social capital is formed.”

So…What is your Blood worth?

Reckoning (2012)
Plexiglass boxes, memo pads,
Jennifer Dalton buttons

This interactive installation invites us to consider
issues of “Surplus” and “Debt” in our own lives
and experiences. The pads detail many ways that
each of can classify ourselves and the many areas
of interaction from country to family. Consider
situations where you feel you have given more
than you have received back or where you have
received more than you have given and fill out the
appropriate sheet and place in either “Surplus” or
“Debt.” In exchange for your participation you are
invited to take one of the buttons located under
your entry box. Multiple surveys can be filled out
reflecting different aspects of one’s life.

Reckoning (2012)

What are some areas in your life where you receive and/or give?

1. Friendship
2. Affection
3. Finance
4. Learning (academics)
5. Energy consumption
6. -
7. -

Reckoning (2012)

Jennifer Dalton is an emerging
Brooklyn artist who doesn't shy away
from making a political statement
(unlike so many of her
contemporaries). Through a variety of
media ranging from sculpture,
installation, and drawing, to event
organization, Dalton sticks her nose
where mainstream discourse tells her
it doesn't belong.
Much of her artwork targets the
imbalances of power structures, using
group discussion to dissect a shared
sense of struggle among people.
From artinfo.com

Reckoning (2012)

Are you in Surplus? Are you in Debt?

Reckoning (2012)

Have you ever interacted with these objects before?

Theodoros Untitled(2012)
Stamatogiannis Ping pong table, net, and mats

How do we usually interact with art objects in a museum or gallery?
 Who decides how we are supposed to interact?

Theodoros Untitled
Stamatogiannis Basketball equipment

Untitled
photography

Theodoros
Stamatogiannis

“Traditionally, architecture
creates place while sculpture
creates objects. My practice
is a research of how
architecture can create
sculptural objects that arise
from the geometry and the
function of architectural
place.”


f. r.e.e. Pilot Branch of Operation
(Fundred Reserve Paydirt
Even Exchange) A project by Mel Chin

More examples from http://www.fundred.org/


Mel Chin initiated Operation Paydirt in New
Orleans in 2008 where at least 30% of the
inner city childhood population was affected
by lead-poisoning before Katrina.

Chin also inserts art into unlikely places,
including destroyed homes, toxic landfills,
and even popular television, investigating
how art can provoke greater social
awareness and responsibility. He develops
projects in the field of “green remediation,”
using plants to remove toxic, heavy metals
from soil, and improve the quality of
communities.


Operation Paydirt is a
multidisciplinary, artist-driven
project advancing a solution to
the devastating problem of lead
(Pb) contaminated soil that puts
thousands of children at risk for
severe learning disabilities and
behavioral problems. The goals of
the project are to raise
awareness of the issues of lead
and to create a model for making
cities lead-safe across the United
States. Ultimately Operation
Paydirt’s purpose is to support
generational human and
environmental health.


http://melchin.org/oeuvre/operation-paydirtfundred-
dollar-bill-project

This field near St Paul, Minnesota ranked at the top
of the government issued Superfund list, indicating
its incredible toxicity. At the time when Chin was
considering his proposal to heal the land, it was so
infected with incinerated sewage sludge that it was
illegal for anyone to even step foot on it.
Chin heals this polluted land by building a garden
on it. He works on his project one plot at a time
and fences off about a fifty-foot radius to plant the
current garden. Heavy metals, which are proliferate
in the soil, are fatal to most organisms when
concentrated, however Chin has discovered a type
of plant that cannot only tolerate such toxic
elements, but leaches them out of the soil and
stores it in its vascular system. These plants are
called “hyperaccumulators” and are unique in the
plant world because they can thrive in toxic lands


Superfund
sites in
the USA
f. r.e.e.
(Fundred Reserve
Even Exchange)

Is this what you’d expect “art” to be?
 Or is this more “community activism?”

What qualities should ‘good art’ have?
1.-
2.-
3.-
4.-
5.-
6.-
7.-


Nle interaction$

Recomendados

Recomendados

Mais conteúdo relacionado

Semelhante a Nle interaction$

Semelhante a Nle interaction$ (20)

Mais de kozakartclass

Mais de kozakartclass (20)

Nle interaction$