On being an artist
On Being an Artist brings together thirteen South Australian artists who, individually or as collaborations, create work in respond to eleven ‘actions’ inspired by Michael Craig Martin’s collection of memoiresque essays of the same name. After gleaming insights, advice and interesting quotes from Martin’s text, these quotes were misread and applied as instructions on being an artist in the style of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s ‘do it’ exhibitions conceived in the 1990s.
Analogous with the way in which these actions were created the artists were similarly invited to loosely interpret, purposefully misread, or take these actions as instruction. By this exhibition model the artistic process is pushed to the fore, opening up possibilities for interpretation and translation. Collectively, these thirteen artists share an insight into what it means to be an artist, from conceptualisation to the realised artwork.
Our Action:
Action 11: Describe 15 seconds using:
Reading (with globe)
1980 tape on wall (Dimensions decided at time of installation)
Bottle brush Corkscrew
f: Decisiveness over Tidiness
Directness
Don’t hide errors