Nietzsche Drager
TEXT ART
Series : Conceptual Art Consumer Labels
TEXT ART
Series : Conceptual Art News Paper and Poetry, 2008
Conceptual Art News Paper and Poetry
News Paper
10 images
various sizes ( 6/10 in x 10 / 18 in )
2006
TEXT ART
Series : Conceptual Art Product Instruction, 2016
Conceptual Art Product Instruction
17 images
paper
various sizes,
2016 – present
TEXT ART
Series : Writing on News Paper, 2007
Writing on News Paper
13 images
News Paper
various sizes ( 1 in / 2 in x 10 / 18 in )
2007
TEXT ART
Series : Conceptual Art Marketing, 2011
PHOTOGRAPHY / DECONSTRUCTION
Conceptual Art Marketing
16 digital photographs,
pape
various sizes
2011
I photo-shopped images from the internet with alternative “rock song” lyrics- 1970s-1980s-1990s as advertisements for various companies and brands.
Marketing is contemporary conceptual art. It presents image and text to communication to a viewer.Advertising generates ideas, notions and concept, like conceptual art.It is in public space and private space.The dialectic and dissonance between the rock song lyrics and image evokes emotions of condensing euphoria.Dissonance is an element in metaphor and conceptual art is mostly comprised of metaphors.My goal is to enlarge these images in a gallery, 15 feet by 27 feet.Second, to approach the corporations in the ads to use these ads in Magazines, Billboards, Subways, etc, as a “real” advertizing campaign.
TEXT ART
Series : Jeff Wall Art Theory Photocopy Handouts, 1991
Jeff Wall Art Theory Photocopy Handouts, 1990
17 photocopy
pape
11 in x 8.5 in
1991
These are 17 photocopy handouts from an Art Theory course for 4th year B.F.A. at the University of British Columbia taught by Jeff Wall in 1990, which I attended as a B.F.A student . This is a genealogy of Art Theory as objects, not a discourse on the politics of the Art Canon. It merely a collection of objects within the experience of Pedagogy.
Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School[citation needed] and he has published essays on the work of his colleagues and fellow Vancouverites Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, and Ian Wallace. His photographic tableaux often take Vancouver’s mixture of natural beauty, urban decay, and postmodern and industrial featurelessness as their backdrop.
TEXT ART
Series : Serge Guilbaut, Art History Class, University of British Columbia, 1989 -1990 : Directions in Twentieth Century Art : Photocopy Handouts, 1989
Serge Guilbaut, Art History Class, University of British Columbia, 1989 -1990 : Directions in Twentieth Century Art : Photocopy Handouts
12 photocopies
pape
11 in x 8.5 in
1989
These are 12 photocopy handouts from a 1 st year B.F.A course on Art History of Modern Art – ie 20h Century Art , taught by Serge Guilbaut in 1989 at the University of British Columbia, which I attended as a B.F.A student
Serge Guilbaut is the author of How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom and the Cold War. With this series, I am presenting a genealogy of how Art History is presenting in University Art classes in the 1990s. I am not making a social, nor political statement, analysis, discourse, merely mediated objects from my pedegodgy, as part of the Art Canon.
Serge Guilbaut is professor emeritus of Art History at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He has written on modern and contemporary art and, in particular, on cultural and political relations between the United States and France. He has published How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom and the Cold War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983; translated into five languages), Voir, Ne pas Voir, Faut Voir: Essais sur la perception et la non-perception des oeuvres (Nîmes: Jacqueline Chambon, 1994), Sobre la desaparicíon de ciertas obras de arte (Mexico City: Curare, 1995), and Los espejismos de la imagen, Essays on contemporary art (Madrid: Editions Akal, 2009).
TEXT ART
Series : Sentence
Sentence,
10 insallaions
Various Materials – white sesame seeds, bread, plastic c.d. covers, flour, water
Various Sizes – 4 feet /8 feet ( height) to 8 feet / 20 feet ( Length)
Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto, Montreal, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Deventer, Enschede.
2001 – present
A series of text installations / art interventions in public space exploring a visceral and monumental experience of language and words. I would go for a walk in public space in a city, and find a space or area, which seemed interesting to write a word on the ground. This intervention was often during the day, in public, and while writing the word I would feel a sense of “social revolutionary act”. Sometimes, a person would come up to me and ask questions, and I would discuss art, language, public space, or media. The fact that these written words are temporary are an important link to Buddhism, and to how many things in public space are temporary or transitory, such as advertising, nature, businesses closing and opening, architecture, urban landscaping, and urban planning changing the city scape. When choosing a word to write, I randomly select a word ( and space), making this overall ” Sentence” random, in flux, evolving, like Surrealism’s automatic writing.
TEXT ART
Series : Concrete Poetry, 2002
Concrete Poetry
21 images
computer paper
11 in x 8.5 in
2002
TEXT ART
Series : News Paper text assemblages in Public Space, 2007
News Paper text assemblages in Public Space,
10 images
News Paper / phooaph c – pin
various sizes ( 1 in / 2 in x 10 / 18 in )
2007 – present
TEXT ART
Series : Hemp, 2005
” Global Cannabis Legalization 2018 : Please Legalize Happiness, Life, Liberty. and Marijuana”
12 images
Paper and stencil,
11 in x 14 in,
2005
This image is a work on 8.5 in x 11 in paper with a pre-made rub- on stencil. This series o 12 stencils discusses the fact that since the prohibition of Marijuana in the 1930’s in Western Democracies, we have probably wasted in the United States of America / Canada / Europe, 4 trillion plus? tax dollars – i.e. The War on Drugs. This fake and failed war has persecuted millions of innocent people who simply consume a plant – i.e. marijuana. It has deferred important tax money which should have been spent on schools, hospitals, roads, etc.
TEXT ART
Series : Theory Word, 2008
Theory Word
16 images
pink pen on paper
12 in x 9 in
2008
TEXT ART
Series : Peace and Love , 2006
Peace and Love
2 images
Dew on window
12 in x 20 in,
2006
TEXT ART
Series : Poetic Discourses, 2003 – present
Your efforts fuel the Machine, 1995
1 image
Acrylic on canvas,
four panels,
18 in x 18 in x 2.5 in,
A series dialectically exploring contemporary polemics on political issues and the critique of globalization, corporatization, technofascism, and mediation.
Poetic Discourses
various materials
various sizes
2003 – present
TEXT ART
Series : December 21, 2012, 2012
December 21, 2012
20 images
computer paper
11 in x 8.5 in
2012
TEXT ART
Series : Semiotic Democracy , 1993
Semiotic Democracy
1 images
paper, masking tape on canvas,
48 in x 48 in,
1993
A series to re-write the definition of each discursive word in the Oxford dictionary from the lens of social and individual freedoms oppressed, exploited, mythologized, by contemporary technology and contemporary science founded, developed, designed by an elitism of corporate / state / ruling elite in contemporary democratic societies and institutions. I also added some personal ideas to this definition. In this work, I am reconstructing how a word is defined by an Institution or Ideology or Canaon, towards the individual defining a word, by their lived life experiences, personal views, personal opinions, and personal prejudices. My re- definition of the word, is not a subjective truth, rather it is subjective rationalization and interpretation and experience of the word, in a particular time and moment, I , as a experiential self, feels and thinks, connected to political and social and economic and mediated contexts.