The Education of the Un-Artist, Part I-III, from Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life
1993
Min asked us what of our work would fit into these three categories so I have thought about it more and chosen to write about this.
non art
-playing my daughter
-cleaning the chicken coop
-taking a nap
anti-art
-my compost project as originally planned.
art art
-art that people buy and gets accepted to shows
I've included a good quote from Art Monthly that talks about the Kaprow article. It includes one of my quotes I highlighted when reading so I thought I would include it here.
Allan Kaprow was inclined to state the obvious to good effect. In one engaging denunciation of the conventionalised Avant Garde, Kaprow lifts the veil, declaring ‘artists cannot profitably worship what is moribund; nor can they war against such bowing and scraping when only moments later they enshrine their destructions and acts as cult objects in the same institution they were bent on destroying’. According to Kaprow, an alternative to this situation of stupefying professional self-regard would be to treat the entire enterprise of art as a form of ‘low comedy’ wherein all its participants would merrily ‘give up all references to being artists of any kind whatever’. Such playful misdirection is at the heart of Kaprow’s concept of the ‘un-artist’ and builds on his earlier framing of Happenings (Reviews AM355).
Corris, Michael. "The Un-artist." Art Monthly 357 (June 2012).
http://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/article/the-un-artist-by-michael-corris-june-2012.
In further reading I found that he was deeply influenced by Jackson Pollack and the playful nature by which his work was created. I appreciate his drive to create art from everyday life and everyday objects, I believe I'm there on a small level, by creating work that can actually be used.
Just for fun here is a photo of the "Jam Car".
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