Category: Art Idea

  • Art Idea: Instant Tableaux

    1. Find a beautiful pile of rubbish that is in a public area (filthy lot or illegal dump). 2. Lifting an object… 3. …place a brightly colored cloth beneath it. 4. Return it to its origin. 5. Repeat until all objects have been re-based. Voila. Instant tableaux.  

  • Art Idea: Contemplations

    1. mount a bicycle to a piano to allow it to strike the wires and produce sound. should look insane/crazy. and be awful sounding. build a fleet of these. 2. how can you produce bright red fireball explosions? the kind that they have at major exhibitions where it’s all points of light sparkling in the…

  • art idea # 3: ‘whitebodycurtain’ (or silently yellow, too)

    you will need: 1. a film or video to display 2. a projector 3. a lot of naked people. paint your naked people white or yellow. have them lined up as closely as possible. train them for various movements if you like as long as they stay close. if your projection is long you will…

  • my own private conceptual art film

    so i have decided to join the northwest film forum‘s film challenge for 2008. the challenge? to produce all your footage for a short film in 24 hours in one location specified by the film forum and turn out a film of no more than 5 minutes in length. by august. i think i can…

  • Art Idea: Global Eyes

    get disposable video cameras. mail them to artists in other countries. have them to shoot their art, themselves, other’s art, life, whimsy, whatever. get those cameras back. EXHIBIT! DON’T TRANSLATE!