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Branded  Spaces  

Caitlyn  Hernandez  Harriet  Smith  Shinji  Pons  

Susana  Sousa  

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Drawing  on  the  session,  Experien?al  spaces  on  the  15th  of  October,  we  

will  analyse  the  exhibi?on  by  Swiss  ar?st  PipiloE  Rist,  Eyeball  Massage,  

at  the  Hayward  Gallery  using  the  text  O’Doherty,  B  (1999)  Inside  the  

White  Cube:  The  Ideology  of  the  Gallery  Space  [1976]  Berkeley  University  

of  California  Press.  

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Form  &  Content  

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“When  I  close  my  eyes,  my  imagina?on  roams  free.  In  the  same  

way  I  want  to  create  spaces  for  video  art  that  rethink  the  very  

nature  of  the  medium  itself.  I  want  to  discover  new  ways  of  

configuring  the  world,  both  the  world  outside  and  the  world  

within.”  

PipiloE  Rist  

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Figure  1:  PipiloE  Rist,  Administering  Eternity  ,  2011.  Eyeball  Massage,  Hayward  Gallery,  London.    

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 30  works  from  1980’s  –present  day,  including  special  piece  for  the  

Hayward  Gallery  

 Scale  plays  a  large  role  in  her  work   Rist  u?lizes  unique  and  untradi?onal  spaces   Placement  within  and  outside  the  gallery  space  

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 PipiloE  Rist  considers  her  video  works  as  extensions  of  her  own  body  

as  well  as  her  mind.  

 “  I  tend  to  feel  the  video  pieces  from  inside  myself.”    

 She  uses  the  transforma?ve  power  of  colour  and  space  to  enchant  

and  seduce  the  viewer  and  create  this  visual  environment.    

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Historical  and  Cultural  Context  

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Feminism  &  the  Feminist  Art  Movement  

 Heavy  focus  on  the  human  body,  namely  the  female  form  

 Fixa?on  on  sexuality   Themes  and  feelings  of  freedom  and  explora?on  

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 These  no?ons  of  freedom  and  self-­‐expression  paired  with  her  focus  on  women,  the  female  body  and  sexuality  should  be  contemplated  with  regards  to  the  context  of  her  work  and  her  life  so  far.  

 Born  in  1962   Rist  grew  in  up  in  an  era  of  feminist  uprising  

 historian,  Lina  Nochlin  published,  Why  Have  There  Been  No  Great  Women  Ar3sts?    

 Explored  the  social  and  economic  factors  repressing  women’s  ar?s?c  achievement.  

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The  Female  Nude  

 Nochlin  –  why  has  the  white  western  male  viewpoint  become  accepted  as  the  art  historian’s  perspec?ve?  

 1980’s  art  historian  Griselda  Pollock  -­‐  inves?gated  the  representa?on  of  men  versus  women  in  art,  par?cularly  the  female  nude.  

 “Men  look  at  women  and  women  watch  themselves  being  look  

at”  (Berger,  J.  1972  Ways  of  Seeing).  

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The  Female  Nude  in  Rist’s  work  

 While  Rist’s  work  depicts  the  female  nude,  she  explains  the  female  body  represents  humankind  as  a  whole    

 Western  society  –  sexualiza?on  of  the  female  nude  body  

   Rist  views  nudity  as  something  innocent  and  believes  to  be  at  ease  with  your  body  is  to  be  at  ease  with  your  whole  self  

 Rist  uses  the  body  as  a  landscape  

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Figure  2:  PipiloE  Rist,  Massachusejs  Chandelier  ,  2010.  Eyeball  Massage,  Hayward  Gallery,  London  [2011].    

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Social  Context  

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Breaking  social  taboos  

 Rist  breaks  cultural  and  social  taboos  with  her  work   She  introduces  new  and  warmer  ways  of  displaying  video  

 Provokes  reac?ons  by  displaying  explicit  scenes  of  nudity  and  sexual  intercourse  

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Technology  

 Explores  socie?es  rela?onship  with  technology  and  machinery  

 U?lizes  lo  tech  machinery  to  create  new  and  unique  pieces    

 Transforms  the  cold  and  hard  nature  of  machinery  by  crea?ng  

mul?sensory  experience  pieces  that  immerse  the  audience  into  a  

dream  like  state  

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Poli?cal  Context  

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The  Gallery  

 Challenges  the  poli?cs  of  the  gallery.   Disrupts  tradi?onal  ‘viewing  rituals’  by  crea?ng  pieces  of  work  that  

can  only  be  viewed  by  laying  down  or  kneeling    

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Meanings  

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Inside  the  White  Cube  

 O’Doherty  -­‐  ajempted  neutrality  of  modern  museums  and  galleries  is  

not  neutral    

 The  white  cube  stands  for  a  community  with  common  ideas  and  

assump?ons  towards  art.  

   With  no  context  to  place  the  artwork  in,  the  white  wall  allows  

audience  assump?ons  to  be  placed  on  an  ar?st’s  work  as  opposed  for  

the  ar?st’s  inten?ons  to  be  placed  on  the  audience  

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 Rist,  rebels  against  the  white  wall  in  her  exhibi?on  at  the  Hayward  Gallery,  Eyeball  Massage,  by  u?lizing  the  space  in  a  site  specific    

experien?al  context  that  frees  her  work  from  the  constraints  of  the  

gallery  and  challenges  audiences  percep?on  of  art.  

 hjp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKR-­‐QhjOz-­‐

o&feature=player_embedded  -­‐  !  

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The  Museum  

“Art    and  ar?fact,  style  and  period,  high  and  low,  dominant  and  marginal-­‐  these  are  the  boundaries  museums  rely  on  to  sustain  ‘socie?es  most  revered  beliefs  and  values”  (Corrin,  L.  2004  p.  381).  

 The  museum  space  relies  on  socie?es  assump?ons    

 Simultaneously  reinforcing  them  through  the  presenta?on  of  the  artwork  and  the  e?queje  required  

 Rist  defies  the  gallery  -­‐  interac?ve  and  communal  area  /invites  audience  to  directly  interact  with  her  work  

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Placement  

 O’  Doherty  –  tradi?onally  art  is  hung  at  the  middle  level  of  the  white  

wall    

 Separated  from  the  room  by  a  frame    

 Where  the  artwork  is  hung  denotes  its  value  and  pres?ge.    

 Rist  -­‐force  the  audience  to  bend  to  her  work,  doesn’t  worry  about  it  not  being  seen  

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Experien?al  Space  

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“If  the  love  of  art  is  the  clear  mark  of  the  chosen,  separa?ng,  by  an  

invisible  and  insuperable  barrier,  those  who  are  touched  by  it  from  those  

who  have  not  received  its  grace,  it  is  understandable  that  in  the  ?niest  

details  of  their  morphology  and  their  organiza?on,  museums  betray  their  

true  func?on,  which  is  to  reinforce  for  some  the  feeling  of  belonging  and  

for  others  the  feeling  of  exclusion.”  

Pierre  Bourdieu  and  Alain  Darbel,    

The  Love  of  Art:  European  Art  Museums  and  Their  Public  

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 Eyeball  Massage  -­‐  creates  a  sense  of  community    

 Allows  audience  to  experience  Rist’s  work  in  a  crea?ve  and  collabora?ve  way.  

 Rist  breaks  the  social  e?queje  of  the  gallery     Encourages  audience  to  relax  and  enjoy  her  work  

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Figure  1:  PipiloE  Rist,  A  Peak  Into  the  West  A  Look  Into  the  East  (E-­‐W),  1992.  Eyeball  Massage,  Hayward  Gallery,  London  (2011).    

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“The  coupling  of  these  dimensions  defines  the  four  ‘realms’  of  an  

experience-­‐  entertainment,  educa?on,  escape,  and  esthe?cism  that  

osen  comingles  to  form  uniquely  personal  encounters.”  (New  Forms  of  

Consump?on  p  31)  

 Rist  u?lizes  the  gallery  space  in  order  to  create  a  unique  and  personal  experience  for  her  audience  by  manipula?ng:    

 Sound   Scale   Projec?ons   Untradi?onal  spaces  (floor,  ceiling,  etc.)  

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Figure  2:  PipiloE  Rist,  Selfless  in  The  Bath  of  Lava,  1994.  Eyeball  Massage,  Hayward  Gallery,  London  (2011).  

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 Rist  creates  environments  that  influence  the  way  in  which  her  work  is  

viewed.  

 The  way  in  which  her  work  is  viewed  some?mes  becomes  more  

important  than  the  work  itself.  

 Forces  audience  to  interact  with  her  work  as  opposed  to  the  tradi?onal  clinical  and  controlled  “do  not  touch”  museum  environment.  

 Allows  audience  to  play  and  communicate  with  each  other  in  a  

communal  art  experience.