Oral Presentation Outline
Introduction:
Who
is Pipilotti Rist?
Pipilotti
Rist, original name Elizabeth Charlotte Rist was born on June 21st
1962 in Grabs, Switzerland. She is a video installation artist known for work
about sexuality, gender, and the human body. The name Pipilotti is a fusion of
her nickname, Lotti, with Pippi Longstocking created by Swedish writer Astrid
Lindgren. She began making super 8 films while in college and now uses high definition
film. By the late 1980s, she was producing vivid and slickly made videos which
lasted only a few minutes, and contained alterations in their colors, speed,
and sound. Since the early 1990s, her films and installations have been shown
in museums and galleries internationally.
Unlike
other conceptual artists who take a more intellectual approach, she conveys the
critical element of her work by creating an intensely sensual experience. She
is renowned for bridging the gulf between popular culture and art, and for
merging various media. Although her work is regarded as feminist by some art
critics, her colorful visual art transmits a sense of happiness and simplicity
to its audience. Throughout her career, her multimedia installations have been
capturing the many contradictions and anxieties of modern society. Her
experimental works which have been both successful and influential are
exhibited at many important art collections worldwide. With her innovative
style she has emerged as one of the most recognizable names in contemporary
video art. Her work drew deliberately on MTV-style pop music videos, but she
added a reflective element of her own.
Themes
-body image
-beauty of the natural
state of things
-nature and purity;
flowing water, flowers
-animals and food
-vivid, bright colors
-humor
-hallucinating elements
-denies explicit
feminist agenda yet her work is filled with women body parts and powerful
images of women and their bodies.
Inspiration
-Yoko Ono and Nam June
Paik=Paik being the “father” of video art and the Fluxus movement, anti-elite
emphasis on involving the viewer in the art piece, connecting art and everyday
life.
Pipilotti Rist on her working methods march 2004
-She prefers working in
small groups, largest 8 people at most because she wants to be involved in
filming and editing process. She enjoys video work because it is social and it
takes other professions to create full a project. Video also allows for
experimental aspect when shooting a scene over and over again getting exactly
how she wants it to be.
Visual Examples
1. Sip My Ocean
2. Ever is Over All
3. Pour Your Body
4. Pepperminta Preview
Discussion of Rist’s Art –information taken from
video sources-
Pipilotti Rist’s “Pour your body out” at MoMA
(Dec-Feb 2008) Timeout NY interview
This
is a video insulation that was 200 feet across, 25 feet high and wrapped around
the room on second floor of MoMa when it was being shown in 2008. She is known
for vivid imagery of the body and landscape, the body as landscape and nature
footage. To create her videos she cuts scenes into pieces, and will mix and
match footage together.
This
piece and most of her artwork makes you experience art, images are very large
which can evoke positive feelings and a change of perception, the large images
make people feel insignificant compared to the whole process of nature, most of
her video insulations like this one have vivid color and sound. There was a
giant round couch that resembled an eyeball from above also. At some points the
room was all red from the images which symbolized bleeding and the menstruation
cycle. The movement of the body is how she tried to make the images across the
walls move.
Pipilotti Rist Interview at ACCA, I Packed the
Postcard in My Suitcase, 2011-2012
Rist
wants people to take time to bond their bodies with soul, she wants to give
people different perspectives, wants to give people the opportunity to reflect
differently in the atmosphere she has created, give space and landscape to
immerse into art. She would like her living room to hold art insulation so that
she can be inspired every day to live life as if there are no limits set on her
decisions. She says that her work is 50% prepared 50% freestyle.
She
speaks of how video is a bad copy of our eyes therefore she never tried to show
reality which is always sharper, so she creates videos which show her
perception and the natural time frame people think in. (ex: how in memory
sometimes a month goes by what feels like very slow or when a year seems to
have flown by very fast.) She uses colors to show real true color because in
memories the color is faded and wants the reality of memories to be noticed;
the bigger the projection is the slower the images move so she adjusts them by
hand and adjusts color individuality because no two projectors are the
same. Now she uses high definition film
but she used to use 8 mm film only. Rist uses internet to research and share
which she likes. bad copies of human brain. She’s humans a very complicated
beautiful creatures, how everyone so dedicated and full of humor and
professional feel, if you putt100 hours into one minute of film and then person
who views the 1 minute gets 100 hours out of it.
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artists on decisive moments behind their work by Louisiana Channel
Using
“Ever is Over all” 1997 as an example her inspiration comes from random events, some are
very well thought over, no two projects are the same inspirational events, a
guy at a newspaper gave her the okay to create her own spread and she wanted to
have an old lady as the front picture and they wanted her to change the picture
so she got upset and wanted to smash his car, so the aggression and destruction
she felt she made a positive thing by creating art and the girl being very calm
as if she does this every day, car is symbol of given things, not long ago that
people did not have cars people get used to things very quickly and she wants
to be a counter force against that.
Major
Works
-In 1998, she was one
of six finalists for the Hugo Boss Prize, an award administered every two years
by the Guggenheim Foundation for significant achievement in contemporary art,
and her single-channel video installation ‘Sip My Ocean’ (1996) was shown at
the ‘Guggenheim Museum SoHo’ in New York City.
-Her work has been the
subject of solo shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; AroS Aarhus
Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark; Fondazione Prada, Milan; Museum of Modern Art, New
York; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Tex.; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
de Castilla y Léon, Spain.
Awards
and Achievements
- In 1999, she received
the prestigious ‘Wolfgang Hahn Prize’ for her distinguished visual works.
-In 2001, she was
honored with the ‘Art Prize’ of the City of Zurich.
-She was the recipient
of Zürcher Kunstpreis, Stadt Zürich, Switzerland, in 2001 and an award from the
Universität der Kunst, Berlin, in 2004.
-In 2009, her video
"Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)" won the award for ‘Best
Exhibition Of Digital, Video, or Film’ at the 26th annual awards presented by
‘The International Association of Art Critics (AICA)’. The same year, she also
won the ‘Joan Miró Prize’ in Barcelona.
-In 2010, she won the
‘Cutting the Edge Award’ at the 27th Annual Miami International Film Festival.
-In 2012, she won the
title of ‘International Artist of the Year’ by the Bazaar Art, Hong Kong,
China.
-In 2014, she received
the Best Site Development award from Baukoma Awards for Marketing and
Architectur
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