Grape’s research on Rirkrit Tiravanija & Doug Aitken

BIOGRAPHY 

Rirkrit Tiravanija
Rirkrit is a contemporary artist. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961, son of Thai diplomat. He is a Thai-based artist and currently living and working in and between New York, Berlin and Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. An internationally renowned artist, his work has been shown in major museums, galleries and international art events.


EROTICISM
Rirkrit Tiravanija has directly engaged his audience. The artist attempted to create spaces for socializing and interaction between people; the public was able to experience art through pleasure and conversation. These all-inclusive participatory works enable gallery visitors to become a part of the installation, In comparison with the similar sense of erotic, penetrating the separate public and private spheres and showing that “what you do in the private can also be in a sense public.” Interested in the social role of art, Tiravanija brings people from different backgrounds and cultures together. Of course, there is harmony and there is chaos, and that is very true in an existence in the social structure. A lot of things happen externally from it that affects what happens internally. How one approaches it, how one thinks of it shifts. It’s the act of doing things together; where you, the viewer, can be part of the experience by the act of simply eradicate the boundary between people in the very tangible, immediate way.



Doug Aitken
Aitken is an American multimedia artist. He was born in California in 1968. He lives and works in Los Angeles. Widely known for his innovative fine art installations. Aitken’s body of work ranges from photography, sculpture, and architectural interventions, to films, sound, single and multi-channel video works, and installations. His works often lead us into a world where time, space, and memory are fluid concepts.


EROTICISM
In Sleepwalkers, the installation entices the viewer to engage in a type of social interaction with the film screening where the public and private spheres collide. The MoMA walls became animated during this nighttime installation, as the nocturnal movements of five city inhabitants simultaneously were projected and impacted the viewers’ sense of restraint as if they were watching at one’s activity silently. As one walks around the piece, the individual images split, change, and coalesce around the viewer’s vantage point. The installation had no narrative just like a body’s gesture. The actors serve as visual icons on the screens are conveyed through understood actions. An optical displacement occurred, the viewer is active likewise welcome to swim in an open sea of images, at the same time, the viewer wanders the gallery alone, engaged in their own isolated experience. As a means of collapsing the narratives, isolating specific moments. For erotic moment, people can feel a tempo in a physical way; they can really communicate a pulse, a rhythm. The individual and the collective experience become embodied across his cinematic environments.





Inspiration from Artists:
Rirkrit Tiravanija & Doug Aitken

§  “It is not what you see that is important but what takes place between people.” – Rirkrit Tiravanija
§  Visitors to become a part of the installation
§  Penetrating the separate public and private
§  “What you do in the private can also be in a sense public.”
§  Things happen externally from it that affects what happens internally.
§  It matters on how one approaches it, how one thinks of it shifts. It’s the act of doing things together.
§  By walks around the piece, the individual images split, change, and coalesce around the viewer’s vantage point.
§  The installation had no narrative just like a body’s gesture.
§  Sense of restraint as if they were watching at one’s activity silently.
§  Audience engaged in their own isolated experience on specific moments.

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