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WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS | Diary 100310

I will not make any more boring Art is an early piece of conceptual text art by John Baldessari but it still has not lost its impact nowadays. It demonstrate his thinking at the time and his developing interest in Conceptual art.

In 1971, Baldessari was commissioned by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada to create an original, on-site work. Unable to make the journey himself, he suggested that the students voluntarily write the phrase “I will not make any more boring art” on the gallery walls. Baldessari committed his own version of the piece on videotape. Like an errant schoolboy, he dutifully writes, “I will not make any more boring art” over and over again in a notebook for the duration of the tape. In an ironic disjunction of form and content, Baldessari’s methodical, repetitive exercise deliberately contradicts the point of the lesson to refrain from creating boring art.

I will not make any more boring Art is typical of Baldessari’s work, for not only does it contain humor, but it is also a strategy, a set of conditions, a directive, a paradoxical statement, and a commentary on the art world with which it is involved. Like all his work to date, it addresses, on many complex levels, issues about art, language, games and the world at large.

Photos and video John Baldessari | Sources: Electronic Arts Intermix | MoMA collection | Ubuweb

Richard Serra conceptual writing, “Verb List Compilation: Actions to Relate to Oneself”

to roll, to crease, to fold, to store, to bend, to shorten, to twist, to dapple, to crumple, to shave, to tear, to chip, to split, to cut, to sever, to drop, to remove, to simplify, to differ, to disarrange, to open, to mix, to splash, to knot, to spill, to droop, to flow, to curve, to lift, to inlay, to impress, to fire, to flood, to smear, to rotate, to swirl, to support, to hook, to suspend, to spread, to hang, to collect, of tension, of gravity, of entropy, of nature, of grouping, of layering, of felting, to grasp, to tighten, to bundle, to heap, to gather, to scatter, to arrange, to repair, to discard, to pair, to distribute, to surfeit, to compliment, to enclose, to surround, to encircle, to hole, to cover, to wrap, to dig, to tie, to bind, to weave, to join, to match, to laminate, to bond, to hinge, to mark, to expand, to dilute, to light, to modulate, to distill, of waves, of electromagnetic, of inertia, of ionization, of polarization, of refraction, of tides, of reflection, of equilibrium, of symmetry, of friction, to stretch, to bounce, to erase, to spray, to systematize, to refer, to force, of mapping, of location, of context, of time, of cabonization, to continue

Photos: Richard Serra | Conceptual writing 1976/1968

C-AW1011  development diary entry: size/volumes skirt detail.

Volume and size interaction with body.

WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS | Diary 141209

The centre figure of Lopez Carlos productions is filmmaker and animator Eugenio Lopez Carlos. His work ranges from film making, animations to VJ-shows and to 3d modelling and texture design. Aside of his commissioned work he also creates autonomous work like his interactive docudrama about conspiracies called: Don’t watch this film. In this film Lopez Carlos blurs the boundaries of fiction and reality. The viewer gets into a roller coaster ride where fact and fiction and urban legends get mixed into a new reality, this reality is often throughout the movie combined with a good dose of humour. What is the truth and what is pure nonsense? what is reality and what is fiction?

 The above video features the None interactive version and has a run time of 32:27 minutes. Visit the Lopez Carlos productions website to view the interactive version.

Photos and video: Eugenio Lopez Carlos | Lopez Carloz productions