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Nato Thompson, co-curated and organized the trip and two members of his staff
joined the sojourn as documentarians.
The participating host institutions provided Deller and his crew a local
point of entry into the communities they visited, and by way of their resources,
the project gained visibility at each locale. It was through these organizations that
the public became aware of the particulars of the crew’s location and times of the
project’s operation. These host sites were extremely diverse in scope and scale;
they ranged from smaller museums and non-profits, to communes and community
collectives. Many of their mission statements aligned with Deller’s stated
objectives for the project. The stop on March 26th at Washington D.C.’s National
Mall was supported by a local initiative called “Street Scenes: Projects for D.C.,”
which mounts temporary art interventions with the hope of “liberating works”
from the “confines of the museums and galleries.” Another organization
supporting that site was Provisions Library, which “amplifies compelling voices”
within the arts and social change arena which “challenge and redefine the
mainstream.”18 Another stop on March 28th highlighted the Slought Foundation, a
non-profit institution in Philadelphia that moves from the “margins to the center”
of the “institutional landscape” as they undertake “collaborations with a wide
range of partners.”19 Deller was deliberate in researching and finalizing all the
18 Their mission statement reinforced one of Deller’s overall intentions on the road trip, which
was to preface knowledge gained through experience over that from the media.18 One of Deller’s
few declared intentions was to challenge knowledge disseminated by the media in an effort to
illicit something he felt was more truthful.
19 The Slought Foundation, “Mission Statement,” http://slought.org/info/overview.php (accessed
November 29, 2010).
Object Description
| Title | Sites of production: An examination of Jeremy Deller's It is what it is: Conversations about Iraq |
| Author | Kopp, Rebecca Nichole |
| Author email | rkopp@usc.edu; rnkopp@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Public Art Studies |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Public Art Studies |
| School | School of Fine Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-05 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-05-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Holte, Michael Ned |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Jacob, Mary Jane Decter, Joshua |
| Abstract | For little over a decade artistic practice in the United States has become intently “focused upon on the sphere of inter-human relations” (Nicolas Bourriaud). Contemporary theorists have presented a variety of ideas concerning the resurgence of this artistic tendency that emerged half a century ago. Using It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq, which was presented across the U.S. and at three major museums in 2009 by British Turner prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller, as case study to further delineate this artistic form of expression, this thesis addresses recent theoretical developments within the broader social practice movement. Deller’s project emphasized the complicated nature of these theories in action within the contemporary moment, and testified to its heightened use in the public sphere through shifts higher education and institutional programming. The evaluation of Deller’s piece emphasizes the art-historical importance of this work and more broadly contends with the contemporary conflict between those who debate art’s ability to transform consciousness within the public sphere. |
| Keyword | social practice; Jeremy Deller; Iraq; dialogical practice; public sphere; public art |
| Geographic subject (country) | Iraq; USA |
| Coverage date | 2000/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3881 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Kopp, Rebecca Nichole |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Kopp-4545 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Kopp-4545.pdf |
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| Title | Page 15 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 10 Nato Thompson, co-curated and organized the trip and two members of his staff joined the sojourn as documentarians. The participating host institutions provided Deller and his crew a local point of entry into the communities they visited, and by way of their resources, the project gained visibility at each locale. It was through these organizations that the public became aware of the particulars of the crew’s location and times of the project’s operation. These host sites were extremely diverse in scope and scale; they ranged from smaller museums and non-profits, to communes and community collectives. Many of their mission statements aligned with Deller’s stated objectives for the project. The stop on March 26th at Washington D.C.’s National Mall was supported by a local initiative called “Street Scenes: Projects for D.C.,” which mounts temporary art interventions with the hope of “liberating works” from the “confines of the museums and galleries.” Another organization supporting that site was Provisions Library, which “amplifies compelling voices” within the arts and social change arena which “challenge and redefine the mainstream.”18 Another stop on March 28th highlighted the Slought Foundation, a non-profit institution in Philadelphia that moves from the “margins to the center” of the “institutional landscape” as they undertake “collaborations with a wide range of partners.”19 Deller was deliberate in researching and finalizing all the 18 Their mission statement reinforced one of Deller’s overall intentions on the road trip, which was to preface knowledge gained through experience over that from the media.18 One of Deller’s few declared intentions was to challenge knowledge disseminated by the media in an effort to illicit something he felt was more truthful. 19 The Slought Foundation, “Mission Statement,” http://slought.org/info/overview.php (accessed November 29, 2010). |
