Rereading historical legacies of American Minimalist Sculptor Donald Judd and his work in Marfa Texas
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 258213-162446-1285
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Glasgow, UK
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This research project uses performance, video and printed matter as way to introduce a new critical relationship with the historical legacies of the American Minimalist sculptor Donald Judd and his work in Marfa, Texas. The project was presented in the form of an installation at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (13 November 2015 - 10 January 2016) – consisting of a three-channel video work, a minimal lightbox sculpture, and a series of posters - and as a performance at Kunsthalle Basel on 8 November 2014. (It will also be included in the publication Fieldwork Marfa edited by Beaux-Arts Nantes/HEAD–Geneva/ Editions Jannink, Paris (2021).
Judd is widely celebrated for his contributions to American Minimalism as an artist and the critical discourse around it through his writings. Upon moving to Marfa in 1972, Judd bought considerable real estate in the city and constructed a distinctive and personalised living and working environment that is now a popular heritage site. I Bought a Little City invites audiences to reflect on how the narratives that make up familiar or canonical histories might be re-evaluated and constructed in different ways, generating new relationships with art and its histories. The research explores the ways in which ideas of place-making, representations of landscape and storytelling might be brought into a unique, hybrid relationship. Working with time-based media (performance, film), I Bought a Little City identifies previously unexplored links between Judd's impact on the city of Marfa and a cultural economy built upon tourism and a growing transient population of cultural workers and interns. It addresses questions about the roles that tourism, capital and gentrification play in the construction of cultural heritage and art history, exploring how expanded performance practices might develop new methods for understanding these relationships.
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- Non-English
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