So in my research I stumbled across this website. I'm not sure about the actual status of the Thinkism Movement (it seems to be somewhat defunct judging by the broken links), but I thought it was interesting because it seems to have a focus similar to the Arts and Culture Group.
http://www.thinkism.org/asp/manifesto.asp
Explore the website, and make sure to scroll all the way down because on some of the pages it has a list of different art movements and descriptions about them.
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Re link to Thinkism... quote to the left "If you want to decorate walls, don't call me. You better find an interior designer. I create art that makes you think!"
ReplyDeleteHang on there... a presupposition that undermines everything in this manifesto. If art isn't what you hang on your walls, than it's gotta be about the walls! About the social, intellectual and PHYSICAL world we build to create a humanly habitable space in nature. You can't claim to stand for the democratization of art and its integration with life, and at the same time, valorize the hierarchy between 'fine' and 'decorative art.
What clustraphobic thinking--to see 'home decoration' only in terms of our corporate, consumer fashion driven culture! ...which always starts with going out and BUYING stuff!
How about a Found Things decorative movement? Design living space as imaginatively, functionally useful, and sensually interesting as possible with only found things... or at most, thrift store bargains? There's your aesthetic limitation--and if a traditionally framed painting end up on one of those walls--well why not?
Seems like this could be a great challenge to artists and designers. Start with modest or low end housing, apartment, rented rooms. Make a freely creative do-over with nothing but what's on hand, plus found things, materials affordable on minimal budget. Then do an open house tour to compare with photos. Put it on YouTube... a great way to challenge how people think about art, and the way we quarantine art as though it were an infectious disease.... which maybe it is! An epidemic! Let it happen!
I love your idea Jacob! I was looking to answer an artist grad essay question titled "Select a contemporary art movement, and describe you and your work in relation to it". The most contemporary movement on one website is called "Thinkism". So, I did some research and came up on the same website you mentioned. This guy thinks using art for a social cause is a revolutionary idea! Isn't that called advertising? What if people don't agree with your social cause? Isn't art something you experience? Decorative art lends itself more to being experienced than an advertisement pamphlet on canvas. No wonder all the links are missing. Just proves that adding "ism" to a word does not make it a movement. The guy probably had better luck writing to his congressman.
ReplyDeleteAs for reinventing spaces - bring it on!