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comforting one-on-one exchanges that the project created.21 According to host
sponsor, Justine Ludwig of Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, the piece “was
an intervention into everyday life” and served many by providing a forum for an
unexpected exchange. The conversations “put people at ease” because the crew’s
approach was “personal and human. At times war was not even discussed.” 22
On April 1st Grand Arts in Kansas City, Missouri hosted the project; this
was the sixth road site on the thirteen-stop journey. Despite the schedule being
particularly full with multiple sites throughout the city, there was only one
Creative Time sponsored video posted from this locale.23 The featured video
dated April 2, 2009 was shot at the Kansas City Art Institute near the city’s
celebrated Plaza district.24 A member of the Creative Time documentary crew
interviewed artist John Hilger, a current student who had served in the Navy
during the first years of the Iraq conflict. He was twenty-one at the time of his
deployment and looking back said there were things related to his tour that he
wished he had not been involved with, but “what can you do - right?” he
concluded as the screen cut to black. The clip was only three minutes long and
21 Ludwig, Justine. Participating road site sponsor at Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center,
Interview by author, email, February 2, 2011.
22 Ibid.
23 As fiscal and creative sponsor of the project’s road iteration, the Creative Time organization
documented conversations and posted these to the project’s main website. Other videos were
taken by host institutions but remain scattered across YouTube and have yet to be more distinctly
labeled, organized and or paired with those taken by Creative Time. There is a juxtaposition here
between the official and unofficial. Ironically some of the host institutions videos are more
revealing and candid and the project would undoubtedly benefit from a collectivizing of these
materials.
24 Creative Time, “Kansas City, Mo.” (April 2, 2009) Creative Time New York’s Channel,
YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/creativetimenewyork#p/search/0/KNcTjxbziJY (accessed February
2, 2011).
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 |
Description
| Title | Page 17 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 12 comforting one-on-one exchanges that the project created.21 According to host sponsor, Justine Ludwig of Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, the piece “was an intervention into everyday life” and served many by providing a forum for an unexpected exchange. The conversations “put people at ease” because the crew’s approach was “personal and human. At times war was not even discussed.” 22 On April 1st Grand Arts in Kansas City, Missouri hosted the project; this was the sixth road site on the thirteen-stop journey. Despite the schedule being particularly full with multiple sites throughout the city, there was only one Creative Time sponsored video posted from this locale.23 The featured video dated April 2, 2009 was shot at the Kansas City Art Institute near the city’s celebrated Plaza district.24 A member of the Creative Time documentary crew interviewed artist John Hilger, a current student who had served in the Navy during the first years of the Iraq conflict. He was twenty-one at the time of his deployment and looking back said there were things related to his tour that he wished he had not been involved with, but “what can you do - right?” he concluded as the screen cut to black. The clip was only three minutes long and 21 Ludwig, Justine. Participating road site sponsor at Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Interview by author, email, February 2, 2011. 22 Ibid. 23 As fiscal and creative sponsor of the project’s road iteration, the Creative Time organization documented conversations and posted these to the project’s main website. Other videos were taken by host institutions but remain scattered across YouTube and have yet to be more distinctly labeled, organized and or paired with those taken by Creative Time. There is a juxtaposition here between the official and unofficial. Ironically some of the host institutions videos are more revealing and candid and the project would undoubtedly benefit from a collectivizing of these materials. 24 Creative Time, “Kansas City, Mo.” (April 2, 2009) Creative Time New York’s Channel, YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/user/creativetimenewyork#p/search/0/KNcTjxbziJY (accessed February 2, 2011). |
