Site specific art - Analysis of a site

 In this session we were given the task to take our chosen objects and place them in certain situations or place but there had to be a meaning to why we had pout our objects there, this session was to teach us about Site specific art.

Site specific art is when artists place their artwork somewhere where there is a meaning and where the right audience for their art can be viewed. The place the art is put might even be part of the artwork itself adding to the whole feeling to the piece.

My chosen object was my nan's mirror, the mirror is very old looking and so I wanted to place it somewhere that looks old or somewhere unusual, to be honest at first I did not know why I was placing the mirror in these places but I got some interesting photos none the less.

Christo & Jeanne-Claude:

 These pieces I find fascinating because of the scale of the artwork;  I would not be able to produce something like this but maybe one day, but not right now I will stick to my small scale projects until I'm ready and have the funds to create something on this scale, but still the places they site their art makes a big difference because if they had just used outside their front door on a random road it would give the art a completely different feel to it.

 Our next task was to write a word or sentence on a bit of paper and we had to go around Balham and place the word in different places. For some reason I chose to place my word 'LOL' meaning Laugh out loud in situations witch are not funny but now are slightly amusing because of the word LOL being placed their.



I thought this idea was amusing so I went with it.














Banksy:

Banksy put up four pieces in London, One on the side of National Gallery, one in Bell Lane near Liverpool St. Station, one on Wapping High Street – all which were removed very quickly.

This is presented on a billboard next to canary wolf; where the nations money is generated and the fact that it is on a manky billboard on a deserted street makes you think about where that money is going and is it going to the right people. The fact is when you read the writing "Sorry! The lifestyle you ordered is currently out of stock" sounds like a recorded message that you would get at a bank or over a tanoy.

This is another by Banksy; where a little girl is holding out her hand as if she is asking for money or something maybe even food. and there is no rain outside of the umbrella but only on the inside of the umbrella witch makes you think why is it only raining on her?.

The Fourth Plinth:

The Fourth plinth is situated in the north west corner of Trafalgar square; The plinth was originally designed by Sir Charles Barry in 1841 to display an equestrian statue however due to insufficient funds the statue was never completed. Following the sucess oh comissioned artwork over 150 years later by Mark Wallinger, Bill Woodrow and Rachel Whiteread that were displayed on the Fourth Plinth.

Now the Mayor of London has begun The Fourth Plinth programme where artists can exsibit thier work.