21st January- Research, Art & Language group

21st January-

Research
Art & Language group



http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/art-language-2202/art-language-conceptual-art-mirrors-and-selfies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_%26_Language
http://www.tate.org.uk/download/file/fid/57451
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/art-language

Art & Language is a pioneering English conceptual art group founded in 1968, that questioned the critical assumptions of mainstream modern art practice and criticism.

Produced conceptual art also.
Argued that the meaning of art comes with the theoretical underpinning.

Conceptual art was critical of modernism for its bureaucracy and its historicism, and of minimalism for its philosophical conservatism. The practice of conceptual art, especially in its early years of origin, was primarily based on theory, and its form, predominantly textual.

Throughout the 1970s, Art & Language dealt with questions about art production and attempted a shift from conventional "non linguistic" forms of art, such as painting and sculpture, to more theoretically text-based works.

The investigation of conceptual art can sometimes seem to be less valued within the institutions that now teach art. Further to this and on the contrary we have to produce historical and research based awareness of our work.  So on one hand genuine conceptualisation is lost as well as all art being forced into the conceptual arena. 

Past primary experience- 

Art & Language 'untitled painting' 1965 

Viewed 2013 (roughly)

Current reading-
Revolutionary time and the avant-garde
Within this book it discusses the position of 'Art & Language' and the practices that became intellectualised. Within my own work I see myself as researcher artist and maker-researcher. All of which overlap and underpin one another. What i find interesting is research as a backing for work and not the other way round. Wrk produced after research and not before. The below concept of the scripto visual is something that appears readily within my work and more recently as I have presented text as a direct 'work of art'.

Chapter 3 Belatedness, internationalism and the avant-garde 
Pages 132/133- Richard Hamilton, Art &Language, Victor Burgin 'intellectualising of practices'  

'Artist here doubles as a writer who functions as a researcher, who in turn functions as a collaborator with other intellectual workers and non-artists, who In turn contribute collectively, intellectually to the critical development of the work' (page 144)
'Thinking is seen as an intellectually Indebted process, social and collaborative. ' (page 148) 

'The Scriptovisual is the place where the subject position of the artist-as-monad is challenged and dissolved. But insisting on the continuity between image and text, production and interpretation (producer and spectator) theoretical text and visual text, the scriptovisual locates authorship as embodied in the unfolding Intratextual and intertextual movements of the sign. (page 152)