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November 10, 2008 nerulean

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  1. Alex&hellip  |  November 11, 2008 at 5:23 pm

  I think that the cape farewell project ties into international communities as well as the global community. It focuses predominantly on the largely uninhabited icecaps but concerns things that have already started to affect the whole world. However, this ties in discordantly with the fact that the art is only truly available for people in the West to view- it has been exhibited in Chicago and London amongst others.
  I’d like to talk about how and if the project truly benefits anyone immediately affected by global warming in the world at the moment.
  Does everyone think this is ok? If anyone has any issues with it or thinks that it’s inappropriate at all I was also considering world music and how it is made public…
  Please let me know xxxxx
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  2. Alex&hellip  |  November 11, 2008 at 5:25 pm

  p.s I’d therefore need to define the term ‘global community’… and whether this concept actually exists…
  xxxx
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  3. Sanny&hellip  |  November 11, 2008 at 7:48 pm

  Sounds like a good topic Alex! I think art is inevitably affected by what takes place in the world and perhaps even more with public art since it is on display often to a wider audience.

  I was looking at public art in relation with politics and culture and found how Gateshead was quite a derelict area before The Angel of the North was built there. However, as a result of the sculpture, the area has received investment and money from tourism as well as many jobs being created.
  In this case, the local council have benefited as a result of public art but could public art in the future be used purely for political and cultural gains? If so, is this correct? And to what extent does public art as a means of political and culture benefit affect the art itself?

  Let’s discuss! x
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  4. blueberryshrub&hellip  |  November 11, 2008 at 10:02 pm

  Oh! mine has to do with ‘global’ community too! so definitely a thread we could follow!
  I will cover how The royal court(and new writing in general) is by and for the community and therefore an integral part of public art.

  For example, I will think about how new writing is accessible to the public and the emphasis the royal court puts on involving the public/community (ex. New writers schemes and workshops)

  As a group we decided what defined public art for us. A recurring subject was that it should be community based. It should be by and for the community, assist in the progress of this community, celebrate and unify said community, encourage the community to be creative, and provide members of the community with a change to get involved.
  New writing does all of this:)
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  5. blueberryshrub&hellip  |  November 11, 2008 at 10:07 pm

  The Royal court’s history may also tie into this as it first started with “look back in Anger” a play which expressed the anger and frustration of the younger generation in the 1950s. Thereby, showing how the community felt in a way that west end theatres werent.
  I also have examples of how current Socio-political topics has remained integral to new writing at the Royal court.
  hope this ties in alright!
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  6. Rachael&hellip  |  November 12, 2008 at 1:32 am

  I’m also looking at a global community although I’m assuming in a different way. For me the internet forms a community- it may not be a tangiable physical place determined community (like egham or staines) but is more a collection of like minded individuals brought together in a virtual space rather than a physical one. I don’t think this makes it any less valid. The project is dependent on its community- the tasks are undertaken by them, without the community the project would be nothing. The project almost feels like a self improvement programme, an awareness of self and others and an appreciation for that dynamic of relationships and your own place in the world – i think it’s beneficial to the individual more than the community…but perhaps this is because the community in which it is functioning is intangiable… realistically each of these people in this virtual community has the people in their physical community that they must interact with etc so i would argue that by bettering the individual the project is pushing its benefits past the participants and onto their aquaintances…
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  7. Hannah&hellip  |  November 18, 2008 at 8:36 am

  I guess what I’m looking into ties in quite nicely to the community as well, and ties in quite nicely to what Alex was saying as well. We all know the internet is huge when it comes to advertising, though as i was searching the internet for forms of public art the majority (if not possibly all) of the immediate websites or images that came up were based in large commercial cities like London, Bristol, Manchester, Warwick, Edinburgh, The West Side of New York City etc, and a massive number of these websites made direct links to schools, education – for example http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/ – and all of the artists involved in these public forms of art are successful poets, architects or film makers. It seemed they were all aiming at the Western culture; the educated and middle class.
  Channel 4 are currently working on releasing an arts programme called ‘The Big Art Project’, which they are hoping to release in 2009. This means public art will then be advertised on the TV but it’s important to think about the type of audiences who watch these channels: “Channel 4 attracts audiences that are most valuable to advertisers: the young, the upmarket, ‘light’ viewers and those consumers who are most likely to be the earliest adopters of new technologies and services.” (http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/W/wtc4/audience/c4audience.html)
  Because Channel 4’s audience is so small it allows them to be much looser with the sort of things they show.

  Not sure if I’m heading along the right lines here….am i?
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  8. Hannah&hellip  |  November 18, 2008 at 9:03 am

  ooo ooo ooo!
  i forgot to say that i’ll be touching majorly on stereotype when i talk – it happens in everything in advertising, certain products are aimed towards certain groups of people, and it depends largely on what kind of area that product is being sold in as well.

  here’s that wodge on Nick Kaye before I forget: Nick Kaye basically suggests that if people can be affected by the different places they find themselves in, or by different events in or around said place, then a piece of art is exactly the same. He says that “site specific work might articulate and define itself through properties, qualities or meanings produced in specific relationships between an ‘object’ or ‘event’ and apposition it occupies” and he also goes into Michel de Certeau’s theory about how a specific place or location shouldn’t be seen “as an order but as an ordering system.”
  Any good to ya’s?

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