Wednesday, August 10, 2011

ArtCore Blog Launch

Thank you, to those of you who have been keeping up with ERIN DZIEDZIC (Je-jitz): Interactions with Art. This blog will remain and I will continue to post regularly in addition to a new blog that I have developed called ArtCore.

ArtCore

The mission of the ArtCore blog is twofold, requiring writers to engage with contemporary art beyond the borders of “home” or ones current city and to provide rigorous and informed writing focused primarily on spatial concepts in contemporary art and curatorial practice. Written material will include but is not limited to critiques/reviews, essays/reports and articles written on contemporary art, exhibitions, installations, projects and art fairs.

Specializing in the extended efforts made by a writer to expand beyond their geographical place as a major component, ArtCore is designed to establish a rich matrix of artists and writers interacting globally for the advancement of writing on concepts of space in contemporary art and curatorial practice using a blog format. “ArtCore” was developed in conversation with friends who make efforts to travel to view art, modeling it after the term “hardcore”, which references the most committed and dedicated members of a group. The prospectus for ArtCore’s dedication to concepts of space began with an essay I had written for a conference, which discusses the possibility for new methods of writing expanded text that could shape modern interwoven cultural globalization amidst the spectacle of the art fair. The ArtCore blog takes its queue from the notion of the art fair phenomenon as a “destination” and expands this format to stimulate critical and creative text in modern times, aiming to be a significant resource in contemporary art writing. After six months of myself as the primary writer for the ArtCore content, on a schedule of bi-weekly posts, other writers, critics, artists, collectors, dealers and scholars will be invited to contribute or may submit writing for consideration. Collectively, these entries will establish a rigorous and informed catalog of reviews and critical writing segments and will be tracked using a visual map.

The desire is for ArtCore to become the nexus for the development, advancement and exchange of ideas and writing focused on concepts of space in contemporary art in a moving global context. The ArtCore blog project aligns closely with and is an extension of my most recent research, writings and interests, which focus on the affects of space on contemporary art and curatorial practice. Currently, I maintain the blog “Erin Dziedzic (Je-jitz): Interactions with Art” which has been in existence for two years with a series of informed reviews and art world information at erindziedzic.blogspot.com. Ultimately, it is the hope that ArtCore will make a significant contribution to the dialog of space in contemporary art and curatorial practice and continue to inform additional research, writing, projects, important exhibitions, and productive writing networks.

Writing on the subject of space exists in critical essays like Gilles Deleuze’s “The Exhausted.” Contemporary scholars like Nicolas Bourriaud, Ian Buchanan, Claire Colebrook and Nigel Thrift also contribute to the field of spatial relations. Critics respond to the artist and institutions use of space in pointed reviews like art historian Meredith Martin’s for ARTFORUM and Elain Sciolino or Rooksana Hossenally’s for the New York Times on the contemporary art installations at Versailles. In the context of the art blogging genre ArtCore is uniquely relevant in its specification that the writer advance from one geographical location to another and respond to art in terms of space. ArtCore would be the first blog of its kind to collect a combination of written material on contemporary art and curatorial practice, where concepts of space are engaged exclusively.

My research and practice is greatly devoted to the investigation of space in contemporary art, resulting in essays, blog entries and exhibitions. For example, in a recent essay I presented the idea of considering the “crisis” of art criticism in terms of our greater need to apply “altermodern’s” push for modern globalization. Suggesting, that the spectacle of the art fair provides opportunity for an expansion of global geographical perspectives and is ripe as a platform for deep consideration of how galleries, artists and institutions navigate space. In an exhibition called “The Masquers” that I produced for a group show at P.P.O.W. I employed the use of works by Craig Drennen to articulate a theoretical space, a fissure in the complicated dance between Modernism and Postmodernism to suggest a new hybrid practice that assimilates traits from modernism and postmodernism, and in the process intensifies the desire for a new perspective beyond the available vocabulary.

The intended audience for the ArtCore blog includes art students, scholars, collectors, gallerists, dealers, critics and artists as well as philosophers and theorists. Open to the fields of art and theory the ArtCore blog would generate a sense of community amongst practitioners in the broad spectrum of art, theory and praxis. ArtCore’s purpose is to act as a positive platform for collaboration and development amongst genres in the art world to expand the concepts of space in contemporary art.


ArtCore has already begun but official posting will begin December 2011! Check back at http://artcorecontemporary.blogspot.com/