ABOUT
torstrasse 166, berlin, germany, 2008. Installation with 600 shoes and ca. 13.000 m thread. these shoes were collected from people who didn’t want to use them anymore.
CREATOR
Chiharu Shiota
RULES & RESTRICTIONS
Those who want to give their shoes can do so, but only if they use a red threat to connect it to the building.
COMMENT
I like this artpiece a lot, it’s very free in it’s form, but still has it’s restrictions.
LINK
1) MEDIA: 
2) ABOUT:
This is work is called Cyanotypes of weeds on old postcards. She makes it on old postcards of the city. People can send her an postcard.
3) CREATOR:
Hannah Lamb is the artist behind the project.
4) RULES /RESTRICTIONS:
An old postcard you can send to her.
5) COMMENTS
I like the id to use old postcards. I find the idea to use old cards cool. People send a handwritten card which she then used her art. Other people are the basis for its collection
6) LINKS:
http://www.hannahnunn.blogspot.com.au/search?updated-max=2013-06-10T14:18:00%2B01:00&max-results=10
About
The Belgique photographer catches the interaction between the virtual world and the ‘real’ world. Inspired by films and games these people dress them selfs up to live in between those worlds of fantasy and reality, to escape the last one. they surround them selfs in a setting, were they dress their selfs up in fluffy costume’s or in a zentai suite. Charlotte catches them on photo in a different setting (in her own houser anonymous hotelroom), to show the contrast between these worlds.
Creator
Charlotte Lybeer
Rules/Restrictions
-Anonymous
-has to wear a suite
-Has to be in an environment that has nothing to do with the costume.
Comments
It gave me an inside look of how this look like. It is a fascinating aspect to escape the world in a costume, some use drugs others use costumes. To catch this idea, of living in a certain way, is very interesting because you do not see this very often on the streets…right?
ABOUT – The artists created this collection to portray unrealistic beauty standards that are damaging young girls. The photos depict society’s expectations of women, which are so high that even things as naturally occurring as bodily fluids are often hidden. The glitter transforms “what may be considered unladylike,” according to Altman.
CREATOR – Hannah Altman
RESTRICTIONS – Has to be glitter and has to be female.
COMMENTS – I really enjoyed this collection as it promotes a good message, it’s done in a subtle way with a deeper concept, which I like.
LINKS – http://www.takepart.com/photos/glitter-beauty-expectations/why-glitter
ABOUT – This is a collection made up of self portraits that show an artists descent into Alzheimer’s disease. After being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in 1995, artist William Mutermohlen set out to document himself slipping away through a series of self-portraits. The project spanned 8 years and shows the decline of his motor and perceptual skills as well as the emotional aspects associated with losing his reality. Mutermohlen’s project has helped psychologists to better understand this disease that affects over 1 in 8 elderly Americans and all of those who knew and loved them.
CREATOR – William Mutermohlen
RESTRICTIONS – Restrictions would be time and illness.
COMMENTS – I think this is a very sad but inspiring collection that can connect with others on many various deepening levels, whilst still managing to promote good, for a cause effecting his own health in the hope to help others like him.
LINKS – http://www.visualnews.com/2012/10/20/slipping-away-self-portraits-show-descent-into-alzheimers/
ABOUT – This is a collection of hand made Bohemian inspired clothing. The designer has created her own brand with a concept:
wild flower – noun: a flower of an uncultivated variety or a flower growing freely without human intervention. Which links to: Handmade clothing inspired by bohemian prints, colours and shapes. All Wildflower Clothing has that one off feel, delicately crafted with nothing mass-produced.
She has opened up her collection via social media linking to her website. She hopes to further develop her skills and broaden the collection as time goes by.
CREATOR – Kate Evans
RULES RESTRICTIONS –
Not mass produced.
No choice of what is made/pattern/colour.
Size/price
COMMENTS – I really enjoy this collection as it began a personal interest and grew into a collection which is now being opened up on different platforms to a wider audience.
LINKS – https://www.facebook.com/pages/WiLDFLOWER-DESiGNS/1544764559127423?sk=timeline
– http://wildflowerdesignsx.wix.com/wildflowerdesigns
About
Remy Jungerman is an artist who was raised in Surinam. With his work ‘crossing the water’ he is pointing out the cross over to the geometric form from the modernism to the African diaspora-perpective. These panels represent the fact that he is stepping of the restrictions in form and colour of his inspiration ‘De Stijl’, he trades
these for the influences of ‘winti’ rituals. He uses traditional fabrics, but the batik based textiles of the brand Vlisco. Vlisco is a the last connection for the titel ‘crossing the water’ it has relation to Indonesia and Africa as well. “each fabric has a specific meaning in the winti rituals”. For him this is a symbol for the economic and trades between different cultures where he lives in. He wants to show that globalization is a thing that is happening for ages already. The titel refers to the pattern of cultures when you cross the water.
Creator
Remy Jungerman.
“Although I work from a culturally traditional premise, there are direct connections with De Stijl”.
Rules/Restrictions
– Expression of the winti ritual.
– The ritual colours in the work.
– Using of Vlisco.
– It has the mix between western and non-western culture.
– he uses traditional ‘non-western’ technics.
Comments
He mixxes ‘western’art with ‘non-western’ art, so he is questioning the question do we need to divid this still? He blends cultures, because he knows what it is to be in between those cultures. He makes this combinations timeless. And the beauty is that the ritual in this matters is making the art, besides this he really uses the traditions, the meaning of the winti in his work. I can identify with his work, that is why it attracts me a lot.
ABOUT
The Vitruavian Paint Machine is a project that’s performed in the Van Abbemuseum. They made a painting on the walls which would by influenced by the visiting people. If visitors passed the painters it was possible to choose a color. Depending on the color and the people, the painters would change their painting.
CREATORS
The creators of this performance were Luna Maurer and Edo Paulus.
RULES/RESTRICTIONS
The creators worked with four different colors. Each color has a ‘rule-made-form’. But the creators weren’t the people who selected the colors, the audience did. So the audience would decide which color they had to use (next), so they decided partially what the painting would look like. The way of drawing would also change depending on how many people where in that room. The specific rules you can find on http://conditionaldesign.org/workshops/vitruvian-paint-machine/
COMMENT
This was a really interesting way of art I heard of in another class. I thought it was very interesting/fun that people could intervene and could decide what would happen next. It was very fun that we got the assignment to make drawings with rules of this kind of our own. It’s an easy example of intervening in someone’s project, but it does get amazing results.
Exhibition Valencia
ABOUT
It is an evolution of the concept of “Cadavre Exquis” in which each collaborator adds to the Collective Art through being allowed to see the end of what the previous artist contributed. Participants are free to choose if they want to paint, draw or scribble their work or just to create it digitally with design software. Anyone was able to participate on the project. You could just sign up on the website:
http://www.redbullcollectiveart.com/nl/how-it-works
Eventually they showcased a 1.3km-long artwork in London that combines graphics, artworks and photography in a giant visual game of Cadavre Exquis. Also they showcased the collection worldwide.
CREATOR
The artists involved come from 85 countries. The full set of artworks can seen on the Red Bull Collective Art website: http://www.redbullcollectiveart.com/
RULES/RESTRICTIONS
The only rule to participate, was to start your artwork at the point where the artist before you ended. It is like the game you used to play when you were younger, you drew a doll with friends, one drew the head, the other drew the belly etc.. and it ended up like a weird doll.
COMMENTS
I think it is a good project, because different artists were able to show their work to the world. Any individual could just sign up and participate.
LINKS
http://www.redbullcollectiveart.com/
Example of the Cadavre Exquis game
ABOUT
Hong Hao starts with scanning objects and goes on to reconstruct the whole image using his PC. Though the chosen items (what he calls “My Things”) can be common object from our day-to-day life such as money, trash, chocolates, medicines, and things in a round shape, and there is hardly any specific meaning in each, the unparalleled enumeration of cumulated objects in his works brings a strong impact on us, and we can not help feeling the sense of awe. As is often the case, the assembled and repeatedly used objects in our everyday life tend to be catabolized when it comes to their functions and meanings, yet this is not the case for the works of Hong Hao. While money, chocolates, and books, all these bring happiness into our life, we all know that teetering over the edge leads us to facing misfortune in a pit on the way.
CREATOR
Hong Hao was born 1965 in Beijing and made his first education 1989, at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing where he was studying print-making. Typical for the work of Hong Hao is that he’s collecting day-to-day life objects which are not really special for the normal user, and ask with his work what the function and meaning of these things are for us. He shows also how people deal with waste in big cities like Beijing where he also lives. In his work is the chaotic state in which he lives and also the outcome from the sensibility of the experience of the dramatic change in and around him.
RULES/RESTRICTIONS
the essence of Hong Hao’s work is basically the technique that he’s using (scanning) and the fact that he use the visual strategy of quantity to make is arranged pictures powerful. This small and for us not worthful things became in this way more importance and make the picture to one big thing witch is also a bit frightening if we think about how much waste we produce.
COMMENTS
Even this project is not untypical Opendesign Project it is still very interesting to see how Hang Hao put’s the views on a important problem of wasting stuff that we not even perceive in our big city lifes. Hao shows how interesting it is that we collect unworthiness thing without even knowing it in the way we waste them witch is a fact that with is part of our biology development.
COLLECTIVE//COLLECTIONS 