- store - storage + shop
- stuff out of sight - people can't see it
"Monument Men" - new film out
The Canon
- body of work we expect people to know about
Why Conserve? - cultural significance?
- our history - social context - the way forward is knowing what came before
What to conserve?
What does it say about us?
Damien Hurst - Medicine Cabinet
like the Wunderkammer
- Archive of transit from life to death
- his mother's medicine
Charles Mereweather
could say
- historical knowledge + ways of remembering stored + passed through word of mouth
- the winners write history
Archival Aesthetic
- social commentary - civilisation
- archaeology
- human/emotional qualities - memory
-formal qualities - classification
Jacques Derrida Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression
Analy retentive - childhood development phases
Libido - drive to create
Thanatos - drive to die
JD says - drive to archive is to drive death away
too much archiving going on
The Saatchi Gallery - "warehouse"
Taste
- aesthetic - looks good
- sociological
- economic
- anthropological - concept
drawing distinctions between things
Brian Eno
Brian Sewell - modernist art critic
- he thinks he has taste and the public don't
Mona Lisa's Smile
Grayson Perry - tapestrys - identifying different makers of taste
Aesthetics - same image it is less beautiful in a different context
Lady Gaga - meat dress
- to accept an award - good/bad taste?
BAD!!!
Liz Hurley Versachi dress
- slightly risky but classy + good taste
- because of the name associated with it "natural" good taste thing
Chelsea Healey - would in still be in good taste - she's not 'posh'
2nd pic - she didn't care about good/bad taste
dress made to look like a swan - including a head and neck
Grayson Perry - We've found the body of your child
- looks historical - looks like Perry is telling a story of people walking - writing on it no good taste
Antiques Road Show - Bernard Leach pot - ugly green + orange
Hong Kong tycoon
Steven Fry's talk - giving back the Elgen marbles - in British Museum
British Empire - lot of stuff collected what happens at the end?
Bernard Leach - spiritual practice of making things by hand - would show in the finished product
- his work more than a physical object
Oscar Wilde - Ted Noten tries to be cynical
workshop in Amsterdam vending machine
-€5 for a ring - not precious
- cheap metal/plastic dipped in red and signed
- be aware of what you're buying
Economics
- Ted Noten rings worth nothing in use exchange values - coins used - become proxy for value
supply and demand
scarcely effects price
- economics what you chose to do with the scarce resource money
guy in China wearing mask - air not clean enough to breath - sued their local council
people sold air above their building
I Do nail polish - $55,000
JRK's b'day. M Manroe's dress
Picasso + Pollack
Carey Young + Massimo Strpi
- piece in the "Disclaimer: Value"
Radio4 Freeze Art Fair - people investing rather than buying what they like
Collectable Toys
"Gatekeeping" - a theory in 1950's
looking at food that is put onto the family table - mother is the gatekeeper
- she decides what is good enough to make it onto the table
media gatekeeping - don't tell you what to think just what to think about - negative with small positive at the end
Kurt Lewin - first person to use the term gatekeeping
- gatekeeper in social system decides what commodities enter the system
tutors are gatekeepers - choose what is important
- political - individuals/institutions control access to power
- media has to contend with social media
\ people argued don't have gk
Ji Lee Google Me
Chris Collier Open Exhibitions
research should use work that has passed peer review - work in journals have been peer reviewed - 3 people have looked at it
C Collier - open selection not one person picking and choosing what is good enough
Kirstie Allsop
"anyone can do" making
Tim Parsons Craft Magazine
- sociology - not just money that is capital
- in some fields of capital - a degree gives you more apital - change nothing in other fields
Fields of value
- where giving art critics power came into play
bitcoins - digital money
craft sometimes isn't about the object
- its about the practice
makers of richness and taste change over time
- silverware used to show wealth
- not so much any more
what we choose to archive changes
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