SHWhat about the piece you did in Harlem calledBeatrice Thomas? Gnaw comprises two 600-pound cubes one of chocolate, the other of lard and a three-paneled, mirrored cosmetic display case. You want to what! It may be you washing yourself away, both loving and destroying, or the moment when a self-representation moves awayis no longer there. Janine Antonis gnawed reveals how she reconciled the notion of sculptural object and performance. On two rows of facing pedestals, Antoni arranged 14 self-portrait busts, seven in chocolate and seven in soap. Im really careful about what I show and what I dont show. "Interdependence: The Live Tableaux of Suzanne Lacy, Janine Antoni, and Marina Abramovi. Cookies that the site cannot function properly without. I havent quite figured out how to assimilate that kind of information in terms of what I make. Personally, I want to broaden my audience, and I choose seduction over hostility. Can you talk about the support and collaborations with your family . It assists viewers in understanding the narrative. . . One after the other until the guards stopped her. I was so wrong! JAI like this idea of the thing that is missing and I agree that it is consistent in all the work. Well discuss the creative display, why its important, and how its positioned within the broader context of contemporary art. Gnaw, 1992); the absent body, gender roles, and the oral focus are recurring issues in her work. SHMuch of your art has this condition. I wasnt going to have my face in it. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. ", "Artist Janine Antoni Takes on Childbirth and the Female Body in Two New Shows", "Collection Online | Janine Antoni - Guggenheim Museum", "Janine Antoni Biography Janine Antoni on artnet", "Alum Wins Guggenheim for Body-Generated Art", "UTOPIAN STRATEGIES: Artists Anticipate their Audiences", "Janine Antoni, Lick and Lather, 1993-1994", "Collection - Lick and Lather, 1993-1994, Janine Antoni", "The Collection, Janine Antoni. This artwork explores a number of topics, including the cult of beauty, consumer culture, and art history. Viewers are used to having this private experience with the work and it is intimidating to have the artist present. JAChoosing Swan Lake was like choosing the story of the woman weaving; theyre very particular kinds of stories. Through our free and searchable online archivea virtual hub where a diverse cohort of artists and writers explore the creative process within a community of their peers and mentors. . Gnaw (1992) In her work Gnaw (1992), Antoni used her mouth . I was just going to have my body, the gargoyle, the peeing and the landscape. Im much more interested in the viewer empathizing with my process. Listed below are some of the works unique qualities and features. Photograph by Geoffrey Clements. The blanket covers her as she sleeps, dreaming the next days template. She has worked with a variety of materials, including chocolate, lard, and plastic. Her difficulty acclimating to American society is what drove her to use her body as a tool, as she felt her body language made her stand out.[8]. Her work is a hybrid of post-80s ambition and feminist thinking. They observe the way art is viewed and understood. Simon Ortiz and Petuuche Gilbertby Daniel Flores y Ascencio, Geographies of Homeby Loida Maritza Perz, Susie, Kiki, Annieby Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Ellen Douglas's Truth: Stories I am Finally Old Enough to Tellby Betsy Sussler, De La Guarda: Villa Villaby Darrell Larson, Brie Ruais by James Trainor, Christine and Margaret Wertheim Antoni is known for her unusual processes, using her body as both a tool and a source of meaning within the conceptual framework of her practice. Janine Antoni Gnaw, 1992 . If I look at an artists body of work that I really love, the works that I spend most time with are those rare works that didnt get as much attention, the works that dont have the finesse to sweep you away. The works that I really love are things like Carolee SchneemannsMeat Joyor Joseph BeuyssI Love America and America Loves Me, or Chris Burden having himself shot. Every piece is a kind of collaboration. Gnaw. Antoni's work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. Each impact damaged the surface of the ball, thus telling its history. She completed the piece by melting down the gnawed chocolate into 40 heart-shaped candy packages, and mixed the lard with pigment and beeswax to make 150 lipstick containers, which were then exhibited in a display case. One, the idea that you give yourself an experience. That you structure a project around the desire to go through something, to give yourself that which you cant think through entirely to satisfaction. Washing, bathing, and eating are indulgent, self-loving acts, and in her destruction of her own image using these methods she explores the love/hate relationship that we have with ourselves. Another article talked about Stendahls Syndromehow this teenager was so overcome by beauty she couldnt help herself. It is an effort to connect. Yes, and the copper seemed to bring it all together. The idea is that these two forms carve into one another and at some stage the two forms marry. Psychologists talk a lot about transitional objects and my belly button was her transitional object. I started to consider Gothic architecture as the background for my action. InSlumber, you weave a blanket using strips torn from your nightgown, and when there is nothing left of the gown you stop. All three pushed me so far from myself that I felt vulnerable. [2], Antoni was born January 19, 1964, in Freeport, Bahamas. JAI always think I make art so that I can discuss with strangers things that I would like to discuss but couldnt otherwise. Slumberwas the first time I incorporated fairy tales in the work. Gargoyle because you were thinking Gothic building? What are your models? JAThe work has become more and more about myself as a way to protect myself. I wouldnt be able to do anything that I am doing without some key people in my life. minimalist sculptor. Open Access Institutional Repository of Georgia State University In the work, she chewed 600-pound cubes of chocolate, then the same quantity of lard, until she was too exhausted to continue. The finished work comprises of the two tooth and face marked blocks, now elevated on marble pedestals, and 27 heart-shaped packages of chocolate made from the chocolate removed and chewed from the cube and 130 lipsticks made with pigment, beeswax, and the lard removed and chewed from that cube. Inhabit, 1009, digital c-print, 116-1/2 x 72. You have a post-studio practice; things dont evolve out of a daily ritual. [5] She received a M.F.A. . JARight, they become our works through projection; those works came to us through an oral tradition told to us by teachers and other artists. Theres a great familiarity and at the same time a great distance. It was a piece that did double duty. Janine Antoni ("Gnaw") Bring supplies for plaster on Wed 8/31: small containers for pouring plaster forms, i.e., conical, rectangular, circular, cube, etc., small jar of petroleum jelly, junky clothing, ----- Prepare for critique: modify and improve your Janine Antoni (born January 19, 1964) is a Bahamian-born American artist, who creates contemporary work in performance art, sculpture, and photography. Photographed by Prudence Cumming Associates at Anthony dOffay Gallery, London, 1993. Installation view of the 1993 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 24-June 20, 1993). Right. With regard to some of the people we spoke of earlier, several of the most important performers of the 70s have removed themselves physically and have tried to make objects and installations that retain the intensity of their early performances. Antoni created her scarring by biting into her sculptures. Task: Determining the Content Make a list of words that you associate with Gnaw. But in Zurich, the people were incredibly shy. by Marianne Shaneen, Roxane Gay Early works, like Gnaw, 1992, and Lick and Lather, 1993, were inspired sculptures that were at once objects and processes that engaged important trajectories in contemporary art. Lick and Lather, 1993, two self-portrait busts: one chocolate and one soap, 24 x 16 x 13. Antoni, who turned 29 that year, threw her whole self into the process, using her lips, lashes, and hair in performative, arduous, and absurdist send-ups of female obsessions and macho art. What makes Janine Antoni's Gnaw unique compared to other sculptural pieces? The two cubes were displayed in an evocative room filled with mirrored shelves. Janine Antoni, Gnaw, 1992. The association is apt; as a woman artist Antoni was mimicking the making of an action painting and claiming a piece of the territory that had been occupied primarily by male artists. The work is made up of two enormous cubes, one of chocolate and the other of lard, which bare the artist's own teeth marks. Whenever I show in a museum the guards give me information I cannot get any other way. The nuns at Catholic school used to tell us that our body was a temple. It was fine when I was on one side of the building because the gusts were throwing me into the building, but on the other side they were pushing me away from it. Gnaw began life as a pair of large cubes, one of chocolate, one of lard, each weighing in at 600 pounds.In their final form, elevated on marble pedestals, the two blocks are visibly diminished. This legacy is constantly referenced in discussions of your work, yet youre not operating in the same way these folks did. Cardpio completo; Pizzas; Buffets Perhaps not?! Its a crazy thingto remove in an effort to connectbut Im interested in that fine line between how much information I give and how much information I withhold, and my whole body of work plays with that. This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. There was something about it that was very touching. Her performance was at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, in 1993. It is strange that in the end I got access to the Chrysler Building because its bird is not so different from my bird, although I made Conduit long before I knew where I was going to take the photograph. WhatSlumbershowed me was that you cant predict how people are going to respond. My mom told me that when my brother was young they were by the pool at a Holiday Inn, and he walked to the end of the diving board and peed. data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAKAAAAB4CAYAAAB1ovlvAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAw5JREFUeF7t181pWwEUhNFnF+MK1IjXrsJtWVu7HbsNa6VAICGb/EwYPCCOtrrci8774KG76 . homes for sale by owner fremont, mi. People just spoke to me and we communicated in any way we could. The first time I showedSlumberwas in London and because the English have a great knowledge of literature they came to it from that angle. The chocolate fragments, blended with spit, were melted down and cast into 27 heart-shaped packages for chocolates, while the lard residue was combined with wax and bright red pigment to create 135 tubes of lipstick. Youve had tremendous opportunities for the work and you have been able to use them to scale up and scale down your practice, which I think is the only way to keep options open and let them feed you. It exists in this vapor and everything else is information at the edges of it. So I took it to heart, not the way the nuns meant it, which is that your body is sacred, but that my body could be a temple. When I was looking atSwoon, a guard saw me apparently uncertain as to how to proceed through the piece, so he told me what the breathing was. She has said that her body is a funnel through which the world is poured, and for the last 20 years she has discovered subtle ways to effect that pouring. Using materials related to feminism, chocolate is a desirable fat, while lard is a feared one. The desire to know. Statistic cookies help us understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. SHAll of the pieces are like hosts for projection of true or false narrative. Where do you want to be? But there was no need for anything like that in Madrid. Gnaw, which was exhibited in 1992 at the Sandra Gering Gallery and then at the 1993 Whitney Biennial, featured two 600-pound cubes (again, of lard . In the end, theyre the only people who really tell you the truth. She was interviewed for the 2010 documentary film, !Women Art Revolution. SHThe piece in Harlem is very connected to your better-known works, pieces involving transformation and removal. She uses her own body as the primary tool in her creations, from drawing with her body to weaving blankets using her brainwaves. All photos courtesy of Luhring Augustine. JABeatrice Thomasis a weird sore thumb, and so isSwoon. The key word for me isempathy. They want to put everything in their mouths because its a way of discovering the world. When she wakes up, she uses the machines printout as a pattern for weaving, seated at an elaborate loom of her own design. To continue reading Border Crossings interview with Janine Antoni, order Issue 113 here. What does it do to your sense of failure or risk? Her tools and her processes are uncommon, from tightrope walking to steam shovels, from using her teeth as a carving tool to re-casting silver in the form of the inside of her mouth. (laughter) So thats what Im looking for. . Antoni's work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. Installed at the Sandra Gering Gallery in 1992, Janine Antoni's Gnaw was the artist's first solo exhibition. The weird thing is that I never saw any of these performances. Her often irreverant activities are kept in check by a loving respect for art history and groundbreaking predecessors, though she does put gestural painting and classical portraiture through the wringer. The relationship is so dynamic, so full of potential, and much more visually interesting than two flat surfaces. Janine AntoniWhen you are with my objects you are with something I have, literally, been intimate with. . Janine Antoni was born in Freeport, Bahamas, in 1964. Janine Antoni,Beatrice Thomas, 1996, abandoned building, paint, drywall, linoleum, extension cord, light bulb. By setting up situations that force her lithe body into contact with malleable materials and spaces, she establishes tongue, eyelashes, and hair as evocative replacements for chisels, pencils, and brushes. (61 x 50.8 cm.) Looking back at filming with Janine Antoni in 2002 for ART21's second broadcast season. Antoni also sculpted two dozen heart-shaped chocolate candy boxes, and three hundred lipsticks into her work. Antoni gnawed on these sculptures with her teeth to create their textured surfaces. 1964) is a performance artist, sculptor, and photographer who often explores the transitions between making and finished producta focus that results in sculptural installations that appear both static and revelatory of the artist's creative process. I feel that the viewer has a body too and can empathize with what I've put myself through to make the artwork. Then I get into the final room which reveals how everything is functioning, but there is only one place where the dance is pure, and its in the projection mirror. Works by artists such as Donald Judd and Robert Morris were all about the cube. Antoni's work is in various public museum collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA),[14] National Gallery of Art,[15] the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,[16] The Broad,[17] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[18] among others. SHObviously the art world of the 80s, and other things that have gone on in the culture, have made us very cynical to that belief, and yet I think we all believe in how art functions for us personally. I am exploring how to communicate through experience. From these words make a map that will help you find content and subtext. In my old way of working, I would have been so set on what I concluded from those mock-ups that I wouldnt have noticed this crazy thing that happened with my hair. When I did it in the United States, peoples connection was with science, and they wanted to talk about the polysomnograph. I was very cavalier because Im a tightrope walker and have good balance. She was born in Freeport, Bahamas, and later moved to Florida in 1977 to attend boarding school. JAThe first time I didLoving Care, it was not a performance; I did it as a relic and I showed it that way. And then I move into the second room and Im frustrated because Im seeing a part of a video screen. [25] In an interview in 1996 with Amy Jinkner-Lloyd, Antoni discusses the defacing of the chocolate bust in installation, as somebody had bitten the nose off. Dont listen to the corresponding Elevenses with Lynne to find out how to pronounce it though!! It consists of two enormous cubes made of lard and chocolate. Called Wean, 1990, it drew attention to her interest in finding ways to represent the various stages of separation from her own mother, and to articulate that relationship through a form of absence. Here came the Janine; there went the Judd. The chocolate can also be connected to stereotypical ideas of womanhood in its common consumption by women. The retelling of the woman weaving inSlumberand how the story evolves and changes over time. (e.g. BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and earned her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. Photograph by Geoffrey Clements. 1964) Mom and Dad mother, father and make-up--Cibachrome print mounted to board, in three parts each: 24 x 20 in. Gnaw is the artists first solo exhibition. While makingLoving Care, I realized that the power was in watching me mop the floor. Its something I think about a lot because I want to put the viewer into a particular relationship with the objects. Making something is like a fight. I have a problem with taking metaphors literally. Photo by Ellen Labenski. nc department of commerce organizational chart; simon goodwin partner Around the same time, my brother used to tell me about the joys of peeing from high places. pliable material is shaped into a three-dimensional form. Janine Antoni, Gnaw, 1992, installed at Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York. SHOne of the things that impresses me aboutSwoonis how much in keeping it is with the spirit of your other work. But there are times when the best way to keep people in that place, which for me is so alive and pertinent, is to show the process or the making. Richard Serra. SHI was thinking about the artists you are historically linked to Hannah Wilke, Carolee Schneeman, Ana Mendietapeople who politicized their naked bodies in dance, performance, and photo pieces. . In Loving Care, when you finish mopping and painting the floor with your hair, you leave the room and there are remnants of empty hair dye bottles and buckets. About Janine Two 600 lb cubes One made of chocolate the other made of lard Used her own mouth to bite out chunks Made chocolate boxes and lipstick tubes Displayed in a mock store front The Meaning Behind It All The Facts about Gnaw Janine Antoni Born January 19, 1964 in Freeport degree in 1989 in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design. In the idea of erasing, there is an element of destruction. I have a deep love for the viewer; they are my imaginary friend. AndEurekawas a huge moment, where the narrative began and ended with me, my body. Loving care, 1993, performancing with Loving Care hair dye Natural Black, dimensions vaiable. Youve doneLoving Careseveral times. My hope is to have that happen psychologically as well. Antoni is aware that she is inhabiting an in-between space, one that sits, as she described it, somewhere between being suspended and ascending and either entrapped or inside the structure of support, which to me is motherhood.. Janine Antoni (born January 19, 1964) is a Bahamian-born American artist, who creates contemporary work in performance art, sculpture, and photography. In particular, that there is always something missing. She keeps returning to the doubleness of things; nowhere is that more evident than in Tear, the piece that dominated Up Against. Part of the piece took the form of a two-and-a-half ton wrecking ball, an object we invariably associate with destruction and violence. In loss desire Antoni used chewed parts from one of her sculptures to create another sculpture. [2] It visually resembles the second stage in childbirth called, "crowning", when the baby's head is surrounded by the vaginal orifice. Janine AntoniGnaw," 1992 . [2] A sculpture of a wall with plaster crown moulding, that has two plaster pelvic bones protruding from the wall and is framed by plaster splashed around the objects. In a way what she did was an extension of my work. JAFor me, that removal is a generous act, in the sense that it creates a place for the viewer. Her work references the masculine genealogy of Modernism with its hammer and chisel imagery but flips this to be an art piece aimed at a female audience. Her work Crowned (2013) was inspired after her giving birth in 2004 to her daughter. My parents met in Trinidad. SHHow do you deal with people looking at you, the fear that they have expectations about the work? SHIt has a nice ring to it. I thought if I used this gargoyle then I could be a temple or a building. And having posted about artists working with their own body the last couple of days, today I'm all about an artist who uses her body not as the source of the image but as the tool to make the work. Alex Toussaint Net Worth: The Rise of a Peloton Star, Trapboy Freddy Net Worth: How the Dallas Rapper Built His Fortune. When I first heard about 'Gnaw' Janine Antoni's 1993 installation I have to confess that I thought she had basically eaten as much chocolate as she could and whacked the remaining (huge) block of it on a marble pedestal. | By Art21 | Facebook | And that's why I do these kind of extreme acts with my body. of lard gnawed by the artist; display with 130 lipsticks made with pigment, beeswax, and chewed lard removed from the lard cube; 27 heart-shaped packages made from the chewed chocolate removed from the chocolate cube. This piece was created from the chewing of two large cubes made of chocolate and lard. I get intimately involved in the work as a way of shielding myself from all of that. JAThe first time it happened was in Venice. [It was an important part of my upbringing to live with my grandparents.] Well, this is the leap. Overall dimensions variable. by John Freeman. What is the Measurement of the Circle Os Non-Dimensional Chord, MCD? The first room, a hallway of light and sound, where I am uncertain about whats to come, is at the edge of an experience, the entrance to the theater, lets say. Her work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. greenish-blue finish on bronze or copper due to oxidation. In Tear (2008), Antoni created a wrecking ball in lead and then used it to demolish a building synchronized with the blinking of her eyelid. In 1986, Antoni earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in New York. WithSwoonI really tried to push that; the viewers experience creates the meaning. Works includingLoving Care,Lick and Lather, andSlumbereach use Antoni herself as the primary tool, engaged in arduous, repetitive tasks carried out either in eroticized private or candidly public ways. After that I was scared to stand on the side of the building. An arbitration. How does this affect your freedom? Janine Antoni is a contemporary American artist known for her performances and sculptural installations. Also, to work in a variety of contexts so that I reach different audiences. I think this shift in my creative process has arisen because of my daughter. [10] In this process Antoni explored the body, as well as themes of power, femininity, and the style of abstract expressionism. Art 206 Revised Su20 Midterm Exam Review Wagoner Midterm Exam: (100 Points Total) Only one attempt allowed & timed for 2 hours 1 Labeling Question (10 Points) 10 Multiple Choice Questions (50 Points) 2 Matching Questions (18 Points) 1 Essay Question (22 Points) For each chapter, review all vocabulary, & review quiz or test questions. I call it my bedside manner. Upbringing to Live with my process from your nightgown, and so isSwoon failure or?. Information I can discuss with strangers things that I reach different audiences help us understand how interact. 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