Art in Hospitals
Who is the author of the art work?
Hospitals only put out work made by patients.
The patient is capable of challenging their status as an object by making art.
What are the users' needs?
Patient dignity informing an interior design project.
To connect with patients' everyday life.
Removing Disney stuff from the walls of kids' wards
The personal stories of staff worked into illustrations around the hospital.
Is equality the same as democracy?
Citizen Control
Delegated Power
Consultation
Informing
Therapy
Manipulation
Participation is often marked by a small number of people getting very closely involved
Mention: Matarasso A Restless Art 2015
art and participation are not the same in their effect... what does art do specially?
Kester, The One and the Many 2011
successful projects... non-hierachical, critical self-reflection, cultivate solidarity, pragmatic openness to site and situation
Questions
Where is authority and why?
Is there something distinctively art?
How does it relate to shared concerns?
Are there wider lessons from sited work?
Showing posts with label Chris Fremantle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chris Fremantle. Show all posts
Friday, 30 October 2015
Moving Out Symposium Live Blog 7: Chris Fremantle
Art, Participation and the City
Producer on Arts and Healthcare Environment Projects
Chris' take on the area
He's got 'more hats than a hat shop'.
SITED project
A time limited research programme.
assumptions
sited work of equal value to work in official spaces*
across all art forms
temporary is valued by artists/ permanent by commissioners
artists and producers talk about contexts and behaviours
has visual art appropriated other art forms over the past 50 years?
SITED avoided this by having artists from different forms.
*Note: Glasgow Turner Prize winners all did sited work but were nominated for gallery based work. Does this imply the TP values gallery work over sited.
Note: is The Stag, The Cheviot... a sited based work?
Note: do sited work artists enjoy risk and uncertainty?
issues
Sited work has outgrown art-form led art-form led policy and needs a cross-artform frame
previously, sited work was a subset of visual art (in Creative Scotland categories, anyway)
Place and identity are central but need to be questioned
Sited work offers important new ways of working for 'official' spaces
Producers have a key role, but this is insufficiently understood
compare to 'knowledge exchange' - what does it mean?
Note: is sited work 'doing good'?
What does 'doing good' actually mean? Is it useful to think in such a simplistic way?
Note: Project led focus denies strategic thinking
Producer on Arts and Healthcare Environment Projects
Chris' take on the area
He's got 'more hats than a hat shop'.
SITED project
A time limited research programme.
assumptions
sited work of equal value to work in official spaces*
across all art forms
temporary is valued by artists/ permanent by commissioners
artists and producers talk about contexts and behaviours
has visual art appropriated other art forms over the past 50 years?
SITED avoided this by having artists from different forms.
*Note: Glasgow Turner Prize winners all did sited work but were nominated for gallery based work. Does this imply the TP values gallery work over sited.
Note: is The Stag, The Cheviot... a sited based work?
Note: do sited work artists enjoy risk and uncertainty?
issues
Sited work has outgrown art-form led art-form led policy and needs a cross-artform frame
previously, sited work was a subset of visual art (in Creative Scotland categories, anyway)
Place and identity are central but need to be questioned
Sited work offers important new ways of working for 'official' spaces
Producers have a key role, but this is insufficiently understood
compare to 'knowledge exchange' - what does it mean?
Note: is sited work 'doing good'?
What does 'doing good' actually mean? Is it useful to think in such a simplistic way?
Note: Project led focus denies strategic thinking
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