Art Intervention

Art intervention is an interaction with a previously existing piece of work and usually interacts with the audience and venue. Art intervention is commonly used in Contemporary art and is usually a performance in and of its itself. Art Intervention can also be a piece of art that interacts with the real world and attempts to change the existing atmosphere.


"Exit Through the Gift Shop"
Banksy

Enstrangement (Verfremdungseffekt)

Estrangement (Verfremdungseffekt) is a technique used to prevent the audience from being passively involved and to help them become conscience, objective, and unsympathetic of the piece or character. This use usually used with the destruction of the fourth wall; the actor, performer, or artist can achieve this by confronting the audience and involving them with the piece.

German Playwright Bertolt Brecht used this method in many of his plays and actually coined the term Verfremdungesffekt



"Herr Puntila and his Man Matti" by Bertolt Brecht

Intertextuality

Intertextuality is the idea that no text or piece of work exists on its own and is a method used in different mediums of art ranging from literature to visual and performance arts. Intertextuality is usually a technique using the text of a different and previously created piece to give your own work context and insinuate at the theme of the piece.




Image of Hunter Thompson and a quote of his in project 0

Assemblage

Assemblage is an artistic technique utilizing found objects relevant to the piece's concept or theme and attaching them to the canvas to create a three dimensional work.  The term was first coined in the early 1950's when Jean Debuffet created a collage of butterfly wings titled Assemblage d'empreintes but the method had been used previously by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Louise Nevelson.

John Angus Chamberlain was an American sculptor who was very well know for his use of assemblage in his sculptures.





 S, metal 1959, John Angus Chamberlain





Example of Assemblage on Project 0

Negative Space

Negative space  is the area of space "usually white while subjects are black" that surrounds the subjects in a particular piece of art and is extremely important to art composition.  This space is commonly used to create an image relevant to the piece itself and is most evident in this technique.

Nel Linssen often utilizes negative space when making delicate and impressive necklaces from nothing but paper she utilizes a minimalistic technique and the technical skill of an art virtuoso which is evident in most if not all of her peices.


A Piece of Nel Linssen's jewlery

Introduction /Automatism (Cut-up Technique)

For project 0 i have chosen to use the novel Lullaby written by Chuck Palahniuk and published in 2002.  The book lends it self easily for  interpretations and concepts with themes drawing heavily on Romanticism and Nihilism.  The non-linear plot line is disturbingly dark yet hilarious like most of his other work but the background story of this particular novel; having to do with the murder of Palahniuk's father and Palahnuik's input being used to sentence the perpetrator to death, sets it apart making Lullaby a coping mechanism for personal trauma and lending itself for entirely different concepts and themes.

Automatism (Cut-up Technique)

Automatism is a surrealist technique and is used to express the subconscious by cutting out images or text automatically and randomly, then arranging them to create new images or new texts.

Painter and writer Brion Gysin and one of my personal favorites, writer and painter William S. Burroughs used the Cut-up Technique in their book The Third Mind which consists of artwork mostly utilizing this technique.





Piece from The Third Mind by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin





Here's an example of Automatism that i used on the cover of Lullaby. Higher resolution photos will be up soon