Week 6- Anish Kapoor Sculpture

Cloud Gate (2004), Millennium Park, Chicago

Dismemberment of Jeanne d’Arc- 

Old Municipal Market Building Brighton

1.Research Kapoor's work in order to discuss whether it is conceptual art or not. Explain your answer, using a definition of conceptual art.

"Conceptual Art" is a contemporary form of artistic representation, in which a specific concept or idea, often personal, complex and inclusive, takes shape in an abstract, nonconforming manner, based upon a negation of aesthetic principles. It's not about forms or materials but ideas and meanings. It would be something but it wouldn't be an object. It is a kind of art that is something but not at the same time, like you don't know why it had been made, therefore, it's a challenge for all viewers. It's rather an experience than something to sell.

2. Research 3 quite different works by Kapoor from countries outside New Zealand to discuss the ideas behind the work. Include images of each work on your blog.

  Sky mirror , 2006

"Anish Kapoor's Sky Mirror is a breathtaking, 35-foot-diameter concave mirror made of polished stainless steel. It is nearly three stories tall at the Fifth Avenue entrance to the Channel Gardens at Rockefeller Center, Sky Mirror offers a dazzling experience of light and architecture, presenting viewers with a vivid inversion of the skyline featuring the historic landmark building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. (Tishman Speyer). I think Kapoor placed this mirror in this populated place is so that lots of people can see the work and I think he is trying to provoke the idea of "looking  at things in a different way". Not everything is the same if you look at it different. For example, the tower in the mirror is up side down, its just a tower but after reflecting in the mirror, its something else, where you look at the tower differently and think differently. 

Anish Kapoor, Shooting into the Corner (2008-2009)

Shooting in the corner is a mixed media / Dimensions variable and where the installation is at Mehboob Studies, Mumbai, India 2010."The objects provide a survey of Kapoor’s most recent work. Since 200, the artist has intensively explored the possibilities of wax as an art material which is produced especially for him. The artist adds pigment to the wax to achieve his typical object coloring. On view in the central exhibition hall will be a work entitled “Shooting into the Corner, 2008/2009”: a catapult that shoots prefabricated projectiles against the wall of the exhibition hall at a speed of about 50 kilometers per hour. " When I first looked at this work , it really reminds me of cruelty killing because of the red wax and the canon. It doesn't really give me a good inspiration at all. Even though, I still liked the idea and how it was presented.  

‘Leviathan’ (2011)

Leviathan is 35 meters high and tautly-stretched PVC over a giant metal frame and is the highlight of the whole room. People can walk around it and inside it.Kapoor said: 'My ambition is to create a space within a space, responding to the great height and light of the nave of the Grand Palais.I can really see how he creates a space within a space, the giant structure made the room so small and also the people. The size is really shocking and I think that's why it is the highlight of the exhibition because it's just so easily spotted.   

3.Discuss the large scale 'site specific' work that has been installed on a private site in New Zealand.

This work is called Dismemberment, Site 1. It was located in Gibbs Farm in New Zealand. It is made out of steel tube and tensioned fabric with a length of 85 meters. It is obviously a contextual art. The red colour is very bright so it really stands out of the green field. It reminds me of a trumpet horn as if the wind blows in from the right end the other end would enlarge the said of the wind. It really showed how space is important to structures like these.
 

4. Where is the Kapoor's work in New Zealand? What are its form and materials? What are the ideas behind the work?
 

It is installed in New Zealand on the private "art park" known as "The Farm" and owned by New Zealand businessman and art patron Alan Gibbs. The materials were mentioned above which is steel tube and tensioned fabric. I think the idea behind his work is wanting to challenge his viewers to look at a normal space or a site differently by putting something so unusual in it. I think he is trying to tell us that everything we see isn't what we see and even if we turned one direction to look at it, you will always find something new and different.  

5. Comment on which work by Kapoor is your favourite, and explain why. Are you personally attracted more by the ideas or the aesthetics of the work?

I think for me,it is hard to choose a favorite since they are all really good. The reason that it attracts me is the bright and solid colour he uses and the size of his sculptures. How it is so big and tall that you have to look up and stand back to view the whole thing instead of going to a gallery and one glace I can see every work in the room. I guess I am more attracted to the aesthetics of the work since the ideas behind his works are pretty hard to find out and to understand but that's how his work is interesting because I can hardly understand why , therefore, his works will always leave a question mark in my mind. 

Conceptual Art. Retrieved from:

http://www.caroun.com/art/conceptualart/conceptualart.html

 

Sky Mirror. Anish Kapoor . Retrieved from:

http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/projects/06/kapoor/kapoor-06.html

Shooting into the Corner.ANISH KAPOOR. Retrieved from:

 
http://www.mak.at/mysql/ausstellungen_show_page.php?a_id=850

The next big thing: Giant PVC sculpture stuns the Paris arts scene.Mail online. Retrieved from:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1385590/Anish-Kapoor-Leviathan-sculpture-unveiled-Grand-Palais-Paris.html

 

Gibbs farm.Retrieved from:

http://www.gibbsfarm.org.nz/kapoor.php

 

Gibbs Farm, landscape transformation. Retrieved from:

http://mydesignstories.net/profiles/blogs/gibbs-farm-landscape-transform
 

Anish Kapoor.Retrieved from:

http://www.answers.com/topic/anish-kapoor

 

Week 5 - Pluralism and the Treat of Waitangi

'Welcome' (2004) Shane Cotton 

'Forked Tongue'(2011) Shane Cotton

1. Define the term 'pluralism' using APA referencing.

A pluralism definition has the basis in operating under the principles of acceptance and diversity. It is promoted as a system for the “common good” of all. It is a coming together with common recognition and credence to all beliefs and developments of modern social, scientific, and economic societies.

Pluralism definition.(n.d.) Retrieved from :

http://www.allaboutreligion.org/pluralism-definition-faq.htm

2. How would you describe New Zealand's current dominant culture?

I think that New Zealand's current dominant culture are the Europeans. As in a statistic based on the population in New Zealand, European take up to approximately 60% out of all the other ethnicity and Maori is second as it takes up to approximately 13%. Europeans likes to celebrate a lot of events ,such as, Christmas, Easter, Halloween and Mother's day. The Europeans take a large part in New Zealand's development as our Prime Minster is John Key (European) and Len Brown - a mayor.

3. Before 1840, what was New Zealand's dominant culture?


Before 1840, New Zealand's dominant culture is Maori as they are natives in New Zealand. There were a lot of traditions such as their war dances, tools, tattoos and clothing. They have expressed their cultures but making their own unique marks onto New Zealand such as the ferns. They make art by tattooing themselves and each one has a story or meaning behind it. They have maintained their culture by building maraes, doing hakas, carving,weaving and designing maori patterns and printing them onto their bodies.

4. How does the Treaty of Waitangi relate to us all as artists and designers working in New Zealand?



The Treaty of Waitangi enables New Zealand to be a multi cultural which welcomes other countries to come to New Zealand and share their own cultural with us so it benefits New Zealand to be a better and stronger country. I think it relates to us artists as we were able to use the moari patterns and their materials such as bamboos- for weaving, and their techniques added into our work where other countries won't have these designs because only New Zealand would have these designs. I also think getting to know the treaty of Waitangi is able to help us think differently and open our minds in a different way. It increases our knowledge towards New Zealand history which helps us to make and design more cultural work.
   

5. How can globalization be seen as having a negative effect on regional diversity in New Zealand in particular?

New Zealand is a slow developing country compared to other European countries. Maybe because we are in the really south of the globe but that's just one suggestion. New Zealand is not a producing manufacture country and we do not have the high technology to increase the globalization in New Zealand, like America. But I wouldn't see it as a negative effect because of our slow development, we were able to keep our nature and fresh air even though our ozone layer has a bigger hole than the other countries.    

6. Shane Cotton's paintings are said to examine the cultural landscape. Research Cotton's work 'Welcome'(2004) and 'Forked Tongue' (2011) to analyze what he is saying about colonialization and the Treaty of Waitangi. 

 "As a painter you are often isolated in your practice. I am not always mindful of the audience when making work. It is only during the exhibition that you are able to gauge feedback (good and bad), but by then you are already involved in 'new' work; this becomes your priority. Receiving a Laureate gives you confidence in what you have contributed to this point. Beyond this, it allows the journey to continue."(Shane Cotton)

Shane Cotton is a famous New Zealand artist where he mix his work with both Maori and European cultural.History, politics and art are the subject of Shane Cotton’s work;finding his place within the matrix of New Zealand’s biculturalidentity its genesis. He's work is like the treaty but in a more colorful and interesting way because the reason the treaty was made is for European and Maoris to be treated equally and have partnership. The treaty was to unite two races as one and that is what Cotton is doing for his art. He combined two cultures in his panting. There are also other painting by him which showed the same intention. 

 

7. Tony Albert's installation 'Sorry' (2008) reflect the effects of colonization on the aboriginal people of Australia. Research the work and comment on what Albert is communicating through his work, and what he is referring to. Describe the materials that Albert uses on this installation and say what he hopes his work can achieve. Define the term 'kitsch'.

Sorry commemorates the apology on 13 February 2008 by the former Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, to Indigenous Australians who have suffered as a result of ‘past mistreatment’ by the Government of Australia. Yet, Tony Albert is neither championing hopeless blind optimism nor pessimism through his work. Aboriginal people have been offered many broken promises. Here, Albert and his army of kitsch faces, has taken this word on face value until real change is observed.

kitsch means something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste.

8. Explain how the work of both artists relates to pluralism.

I think they both relates to pluralism but Shane Cotton is more related then Tony Albert. Their art works both have a purpose of something that is serious and they are trying to use their art to change what something is now. They have two different styles where Cotton plays with symbols and Albert plays with texts.






New Zealand population statistics. Retrieved from: http://www.asianz.org.nz/our-work/knowledge-research/asia-fact-file

Shane Cotton. Retrieved from:
http://www.thearts.co.nz/artist_page.php&aid=24&type=bio

21st century blog - art in the first decade. Retrieved from:
http://21cblog.com/tony-albert-sorry-2008/

Dictionary. Retrieved from:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kitsch

ALVC book

Week 4 - Kehinde Wiley and inter-textuality

St. John the Baptist
2005

Kehinde Wiley Count Potocki, 2008 oil on canvas, 274.3 x 274.3cm

 

Kehinde Wiley Support Army and Look after People, 2007 oil on canvas, 258.4 x 227.3cm

1. Find a clear definition of Intertextuality and quote it accurately on your blog using the APA referencing system. Use your own words to explain the definition more thoroughly. 

"Intertextuality is, thus, a way of accounting for the role of literary and extra-literary materials without recourse to traditional notions of authorship. It subverts the concept of the text as self-sufficient, hermetic totality, foregrounding, in its stead, the fact that all literary production takes place in the presence of other texts."

Intertextuality.The Electronic Labyrinth. (n.d) Retrieved from:

http://elab.eserver.org/hfl0278.html

2. Research Wiley's work and write a paragraph that analyzes how we might make sense of his work. Identify intertextuality in Wiley's work.

I really enjoy looking at Wiley's work. He brought the present into the painting in the renaissance period. His "dramatic backdrops of Old Master portraits with a Day-Glo palette and a hip-hop sensibility, creating a radical artistic mash-up that has been praised as hip, provocative, and technically brilliant."(Visit) and the picture inside is mostly copied from the renaissance artists but with different races of people instead.Wiley blurs the boundaries between traditional and contemporary, self-consciously celebrating and subverting the propaganda of self-aggrandisement in European art,therefore,renaissance paintings. I think he is trying to provoke to his viewers that not only white people makes history that is need to be remembered but also black people too. He's painting is very strong minded as Wiley is also black himself. I see no racism in his painting but the identity of the artist. So the intertextuality in Wiley's work is how he uses renaissance art styles but painting in a different race of people in it.

 

3. Wiley's work relates to next weeks Postmodern theme "PLURALISM" . Read page 46 and discuss how the work relates to this theme.

 

Pluralism in art means to the nature of art-forms and artists as diverse. It has generally believed that during modernity, European people were privileges as high or civilized and was therefore prioritized in the art gallery or the art history book. I don't really know if his work really relates to pluralism or not. I'd rather say it as opposite to pluralism but he's ideas were based on pluralism so I guess it kind of relates to it. In the olden days where Europeans were leveled as the high class and the black people as low. I think Wiley make these paintings were trying to change history through art. He wanted to make the black people just as important as the Europeans at that time. So he couldn't change history, instead he uses his painting skills to provoke what he wants and his ideas.   

4. Comment on how Wiley's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies , colonisation, globalisation, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview.

 

Wiley portraits African-American men against rich textile or wallpaper backgrounds whose patterns he has likened to abstractions of sperm. Some of the subjects were famous (rap and sports stars), others not. As I said before, Wiley's paintings are very strong minded and showing his identity and thoughts through his art. I think it is very good how he is showing the society with a different cultural hierarchy other than European and its people like him who can make a difference in our society. Now in the present, there are still racism living in the society and it is hard to change what everybody thinks and make all races treated equally. But with Wiley's strong mind and irony paintings just might make a difference.  

5. Add some reflective comments of your own, which may add more information that
you have read during your research.

Wiley's paintings are really inspiring about cultural and partly racism. I really like his style of painting and the richness of his paints and also the realistic styles of painting is my favorite too. The idea behind his art is very thoughtful. I don't really know the actual word for it, but he's ideas, it's like I know the problem is there and I know about it but I never know that I can try and solve the problem but painting in a inter-textuality way. And the problem being how different races are in different levels and in this case, black people.

 

 

Kehinde Wiley on His Art and Its Influences. Visit. Retrieved from:

http://www.getty.edu/visit/events/kehinde_wiley.html

Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved from:

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/kehinde_wiley/

A Hot Conceptualist Finds the Secret of Skin. Retrieved from:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/arts/design/05stud.html

Week 3- Hussein Chalayan

Hussein Chalayan, Burka, 1996

                   Hussein Chalayan, Afterwords, 2000

Hussein Chalayan, still from Absent Presence, 2005 (motion picture)

1. Chalayan’s works in clothing, like Afterwords (2000) and Burka (1996) , are often challenging to both the viewer and the wearer. What are your personal responses to these works? Are Afterwords and Burka fashion, or are they art? What is the difference?

Not all clothing is fashion, so what makes fashion fashion?

To be honest, I am not a fashion kind of person so I don't really know much or think about much when I see one. Both of her work is looks and I can see that it is challenging to both the viewer and the wearer. It is challenging because in "afterwords", the model who wears the metal skirt (it looked at metal to me) was challenged by its weight and in "Burka", the models were challenged because on how less of materials they had to wear. I think its really hard to not let most of the people to think it in a wrong way. I would consider them both fashion and art because it is wearable, therefore, its fashion. It might not be a type of fashion that all people accept due to the material used. It is also art because of its uniqueness. For example, in "afterwords", the model doesn't just wear the skirt then walk on the run way but instead, a video was recorded and other things appeared before that. I think he was trying to show how furniture are wearable too!

 

"Afterwords" 2000

As for "burka", its not something you would wear on the streets but again, it is wearable. I think it is art because of its weirdness. Its just an art work that I don't understand the meaning of making it. Maybe he was trying to grab his viewers attention as he is a kind of designer where he only design something that is unique and making clothes that is opposite to the ordinary. I don't really know what makes fashion fashion but I would say fashion is something that is wearable on human bodies.

 

2. Chalayan has strong links to industry. Pieces like The Level Tunnel (2006) and Repose (2006) are made in collaboration with, and paid for by, commercial business; in these cases, a vodka company and a crystal manufacturer. How does this impact on the nature of Chalayan’s work? Does the meaning of art change when it is used to sell products? Is it still art?

The level tunnel(2006)

Repose (2006)

I couldn't say it's not art. Everything can be art. It's not like getting benefit,therefore getting paid, from his work makes hes work not a piece of art. Every artists wants their art to be recognized and famous and Chalayan's got that by designing for commercial business and was able to let a wider range of people to see his work. I think its a very good way to show what he does and to me, it doesn't change anything about art. I think fashion design is still his strongest part and where he showed most interest in.

3. Chalayan’s film Absent Presence screened at the 2005 Venice Biennale. It features the process of caring for worn clothes, and retrieving and analysing the traces of the wearer, in the form of DNA. This work has been influenced by many different art movements; can you think of some, and in what ways they might have inspired Chalayan’s approach?

This film is "A video installation telling a story based on identity, geography, genetics, biology and anthropology. The film questions whether the extent to which identities can adapt to new environments." I think humanism is definitely inspired Chalayan and also science and biology in particular and humanism and biology has a link together because it is about human bodies and in this case , DNA. I also think some of post modernism too, because where he featured the process of caring for worn clothes in the film is a irony of challenge to something that is opposite to what ordinary people would think. It is also an art as process, performance, production and intertextuality.

4. Many of Chalayan’s pieces are physically designed and constructed by someone else; for example, sculptor Lone Sigurdsson made some works from Chalayan’s Echoform (1999) and Before Minus Now (2000) fashion ranges. In fashion design this is standard practice, but in art it remains unexpected. Work by artists such as Jackson Pollock hold their value in the fact that he personally made the painting. Contrastingly, Andy Warhol’s pop art was largely produced in a New York collective called The Factory, and many of his silk-screened works were produced by assistants. Contemporarily, Damien Hirst doesn’t personally build his vitrines or preserve the sharks himself. So when and why is it important that the artist personally made the piece?

I reckon it is not important where an artist have to make his own art work. The ideas and how it should be made or what it should be made of is more important but of course if an artist makes everything him/herself would be great beyond great. For an fashion designer like Chalayan does not require to be able to have the skills to make clothes in order to be a fashion designer. For a special designer like him, the ideas are what he is most capable of. Also more Damien Hirst, he has the idea and is famous for putting dead animals into

vitrines but he didn't need to have the skills to make a vitrine. He produces the idea and find what he needs. The most important point im trying to provoke is that, if artist are meant to make their own everything from their ideas, their ideas would really be limited due to what they are only capable of. 

Echoform (1999)

Before minus now(2000)

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991)

Hussein Chalayan: The man of the moment. The independent features. Retrieved from: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/hussein-chalayan-the-man-of-the-moment-2306216.html

Absent Presence. Retrieved from:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768786/

Hussein Chalayan. Retrieved from:

http://www.husseinchalayan.com/#/home/

Damien Hirst. Retrieved from:

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hirst.html

 

WEEK 2- Post-Modernism, Ai Weiwei and Banksy

'Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo'(1994), Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei dropping a Han Dynast Urn.

Flower Riot', Banksy

Los Angeles (2008), Banksy

1. Define Post-Modernism using 8-10 bullet points that include short quotes.

* Post Modernism is a genre that applies to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others.

*It has a "post" in front of the word modernism is because that it "denies the existence of any ultimate principles, and it lacks the optimism of there being a scientific, philosophical, or religious truth" 

*A philosopher named , Richard Tarnas, said that, postmodernism "cannot on its own principles ultimately justify itself any more than can the various metaphysical overviews against which the postmodern mind has defined itself."

*Postmodernism actually just means "after modernity". It refers to the actual dissolution of those social forms associated with modernity.

*Postmodernism was a movement in architecture that rejected the modernist passion for the new. Modernism is here understood in art and architecture as the project of rejecting tradition in favor of going "where no man has gone before".

*Postmodernism is not easy to define where different thinkers have different opinions and different people from different fields can have different defination, therefore, it is hard to get a definite term for postmodernism. 

*It is a very broad term used to describe the movements in a wide range of disciplines.

*Postmodernism kind of leans heavily on using forms not traditionally perceived as artistic. Heavy use of kitsch or overly simplistic styles are two examples of this mode. Many postmodern artists appropriate earlier modernist and classical works and combine them to create a new, ironic piece of art work. 

*In critical theory and philosophy, postmodernism serves as a striking counterpoint to classical foundations of philosophy. 

2. Use a quote by Witcombe (2000) to define the Post-Modern artist.

 

“The post modern artist is “reflexive” in that he/ she is self aware and consciously involved in a process of thinking about him/ herself and society in a deconstructive manner, “demasking” pretensions , becoming aware of his/ her culture self in history, and acceleration the process of self-consciousness”

3. Use the grid on pages 42 and 43 to summarize the list of the features of Post-
Modernity.

The social and cultural pluralism have unclear bases for social,national and ethnic unity. The works of post modernity concerns no "depth". The culture is adapting to simulation and visual media is changing and simulation and real time media substituting for the real. Hyper-reality is more powerful than the "real". As seen on TV, they are more powerful than unmediated experience. Hybrid cultural forms cancelled "high"/"low" categories. Art is presented and formed in different ways and mostly the identity of the artist that created the work. It also challenges seriousness things but presented in a irony way.

4. Use this summary to answer the next two questions.

5. Research Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's 'Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo'(1994)
in order to say what features of the work are Post-Modern.

Its very obvious that "Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo" is a post modernism art work. Firstly, with the irony of printing a everyday see able logo onto something that is very precious because of its age and culture. Also,"Ai paints the Coca-Cola logo onto yet another priceless Han Dynasty urn. Ai’s prodigious output runs the gamut from shock art, sculpture, film, editing, writing, photography, furniture making to architecture on the grandest of scales, as in the Bird’s Nest stadium at the Beijing Olympics. He is a renaissance man." (The Worlds of Ai Weiwei
,2009) It showed a play around with the priceless urn together with a logo that you can see basically everywhere, showed irony of the price and worth of this ancient urn and challenge to official seriousness and subversion of earnestness,

 
6. Research British artist Banksy's street art, and analyze the following two works by the artist
to discuss how each work can be defined at Post-Modern.(Use your list from point 6.)

Banksy's work is surly interesting and unique to look at. His work, "Los Angeles", definitely  showed post modernism because of the icon. A early century man holding a tray of fast food. It is simply twisting a fact and combining two things that does not go together because of the time and date. But it also somehow just looked right. Also the "Flower Riot". To me, he looks like a baseball player ready to throw out a ball but instead he's holding a bunch of flowers, again, with combining two things that doesn't go together and also baseball players don't wear a scarf to cover their mouths. 

Postmodernism.Retrieved from:

http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/gengloss/postm-body.html

Postmodernism and its critics.Department of Anthropology.  Retrieved from:

http://anthropology.ua.edu/cultures/cultures.php?culture=Postmodernism%20and%20Its%20Critics

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http://phillipsartexpert.com/forums/7/580/

 

 

 

WEEK 1- Nathalie Djurberg's 'Claymations'

Nathalie Djurberg, The Experiment, 2009

Nathalie Djurberg, Turn into me, 2008

1. What do you understand by the word 'claymation'?

The first meaning that hit my head when I see the word "claymation" is something that's got to do with clays. Like clay models, clay sculpture and clay figures. I immediately thought of some animations which uses the claymation techniques, such as, William Wallace and Gromit  and Pingu.

Pingu

William Wallace and Gromit

2. What is meant by the term 'surrealistic Garden of Eden'? and 'all that is natural goes awry'?

Nathalie's artwork "The experiment" is a surrealistic Garden of Eden. Surrealistic comes from the word surrealism. Surrealism is a style which uses our visual imagery  from the subconscious mind to create art without using the logical comprehensibility. To me, the garden of Eden describes the art piece as the clay figures are mostly flowers and its surrealistic because of the style which is unrealistic looking but yet in a recognizable shape so I can figure out what it is. All that is natural goes awry also is a sentence that describes her surrealistic art work. It is describing the shape of the flowers and that it is "awry"(something that is crooked and twisted). I think she is trying to say that all natural things have their life time and when it ends, no matter how beautiful it was or how strong it is, will become old and weak. Therefore, awry.

3. What are the 'complexity of emotions' that Djurberg confronts us with?

I don't really agree with Djurberg's work gives us a complexity of emotions through her art work. The only complex thinking about her work is a big, fat "why". Why is she doing this? and why is she changing something that is good into something that is so sexual and disturbing. i guess this is just her style and is because of that, grabs her viewers attention. I bet if I was surfing through the net or walking through a gallery and randomly came across her work. I would definitely stop and look.

4. How does Djurberg play with the ideas of children's stories, and innocence in some of her work? 

As I said above, her works are heavily involved with nudity and disturbing scenes and it gets me wonder why? or maybe she just simply have a sick mind. But as I research her articles and interviews. She said, "You have to have a disciplined mind to handle the ideas". Therefore, I can tell that her disturbing ideas isn't who she is but her style which allows her to create the most extraordinary and unique work where she twists the idea of children's stories and innocence into something that is disturbing and wrong. She also said that, "but when I leave the studio, my mind isn’t disciplined." Which I think it means that she has the mind just like us and when she leaves her work place where all the magic happens, Djurberg will turn back and have a normal mind where when she sees her work, she will think and sees the same to what her viewers think and sees. 

5. There is a current fascination by some designers with turning the innocent and sweet into something disturbing. Why do you think this has come about?

In one of the ALVC classes, we were talking about how little kids are not like adults, their imagination is not limited nor stopped. So the work they produced are perfect. Lots of artists in Spain and France wanted to learn and change back little kids drawing skills, that unlimited and full imagination. "They destroyed history in order to create their own history." I think that is why the designers now what to turn the sweet and innocent things into something that is very disturbing because they want to create something new and fresh to break the old designs "rules" and how people are thinking. 

6. In your opinion, why do you think Djurberg's work is so interesting that it was chosen for the Venice Biennale?

It is a very obvious answer. Djurberg's work is different from other artists. It reached people's heart in a different way, a more abnormal and disturbing way but because of that which made her work so recognizable and interesting. Because its unique and different from normal art pieces, therefore, they chose her work.

7. Add some of your own personal comments on her work.

I think her work is really interesting and that she has the guts and courage to make something that is sexual and disturbing make me admire her very much. Also her creativity of making everything possible into a disturbing work.Especially this work below. It's like how did she think of that!?

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http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture3.html

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/t-magazine/22talk-yablonsky-t.html?pagewanted=2