Not praising, burying (2012)
| Performed on 12 November 2012 by an invited group of artists, archaeologists, art educators, philosophers in order to interrogate the idea of Greek pottery as art and the idea of Greek artefacts as the pinnacle or origins of artistic practices as we understand them today.
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| The Rules of this Artwork
1. Low-value, throw-away vessels painted to appear like clay must then be decorated using the colours used by ancient Greek potters. The Premise a. that ancient Greek ceramics were not made as high art objects,
b. ceramicists were a low-status group and not artists in any contemporary understanding of the term, c. ancient Greek red-figure and black-figure pots were skeuomorphs (playful pretend versions) of metallic objects.black = oxidised silver red = gold deep red = bronze white = ivory 2. That equivalents exist in contemporary (Western) cultures of most instances of (existing) ancient Greek material culture. 3. That ancient Greek ceramics depict three types of contemporary subject: everyday life, the gods, and heroes – not a far cry from what is depicted in the tabloids.
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12 November 2012 Anna Bagnoli (sociologist) |
