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Ian Aleksander Adams
Ian Aleksander Adams
  • 26, Male
  • Savannah, GA
  • United States
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Website
http://www.ianaleksanderadams.com
Relationship status
in a relationship
College / University
Savannah College of Art and Design
Graduation
June 6, 2009
Member type
Artist, Curator, Other
If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
Conceptual, Digital, Event, Film, Installation, Performance, Photography, Printmaking, Video
I am...
A working artist. That still feels weird to say, like it's somehow contradictory. I like playing games with ideas, and creating things. I manage to make a small living at it.
About my artwork



I tend to work by projects. A project tends to be in a specific medium or mode of working, but my work as a whole is pretty eclectic. I've written plays, made photographic books, been published in magazines, and made performance art based around the act of handing out my business card. I tend to use photography of some form in a lot of my work, either to document it or as the primary piece.

Artists I like
On Challenging Art - Marcel Duchamp

Creation of Fountain began when, accompanied by the artist Joseph Stella and art collector Walter Arensberg, he purchased a standard Bedfordshire model urinal from the J.L. Mott Iron Works, 118 Fifth Avenue. When the urinal was in his studio at 33 West 67th Street, he turned it 90 degrees from its normal position, and wrote on it "R. Mutt 1917".

On Embracing Concept - Joseph Kosuth

The piece consists of a chair, a photograph of this chair, and an enlarged dictionary definition of the word "chair". Crucial to the work is the fact that the photograph depicts the chair as it is actually installed in the room. The piece holds within it the context of its own display, and thus changes each time it is installed in a new venue.

On Immaterial Works - Yves Klein

“Recently my work with color has led me, in spite of myself, to search little by little, with some assistance (from the observer, from the translator), for the realization of matter, and I have decided to end the battle. My paintings are now invisible and I would like to show them in a clear and positive manner, in my next Parisian exhibition at Iris Clert's. ”

In another act that became known as an Yves Klein artwork, he offered and managed to sell empty spaces in the city in exchange for gold. He wanted his buyers to experience The Void by selling them empty space. In his view this experience could only be paid for in the purest material: gold. In order to restore the "natural order" that he had unbalanced by selling the empty space (that was now not "empty" anymore), Klein threw the gold into the river Seine.

On Body Art - Chris Burden

Several of Burden's performance pieces were considered somewhat controversial at the time. Shoot, for example, involved Burden allowing an assistant to fire a loaded rifle at his arm. Another such "danger piece" was Doomed, in which Burden lay motionless in a museum gallery under a slanted sheet of glass, with a clock running nearby. Unbeknownst to the museum owners, the concept of Doomed was that Chris was prepared to remain in that position until someone from the museum staff interfered in some way with the piece. Forty-five hours later, a museum guard placed a pitcher of water next to Burden, thus ending the piece.

On Culture Jamming - Billboard Liberation Front

In September 1977, 19 year old Jack Napier and 43-year-old Irving Glikk attended an event sponsored by the mysterious San Francisco Suicide Club entitled: "Enter the Unknown". The two friends along with 24 other nascent urban adventurers were blindfolded, driven to an inner city freeway exchange and cajoled into climbing onto a factory roof where they improved two existing billboard messages. This gaggle of earnest though inexperienced drive-by copywriters are apprehended by the authorities and become known as the Max Factor 26.

On Material Wealth - The K Foundation

On the 23 August 1994, in a boathouse on the Scottish island of Jura, Drummond and Cauty incinerated £1,000,000 in cash. The burning was witnessed by an old friend of Drummond's, freelance journalist Jim Reid, who subsequently wrote an article about the ceremony for The Observer. It was filmed on Super 8 by their friend Gimpo. Reid admitted to first feeling shock and guilt about the burning, which quickly turned to boredom. The money took well over an hour to burn as Drummond and Cauty fed £50 notes into the fire. Drummond later said that only about £900,000 of the money was actually burnt – the rest flew straight up the chimney.

Click here to see a list of blogs and other artists that I follow online.
Interests
Living in books. Living in data. Living in images. Living.
What exhibitions are good at the moment?
Knees Are Weird is seeking entries!
The Ones We Love is one of the best collections of young photographic work currently in existence.
Centre of the artworld:
online


Laze on over to my website if you'd like to see my work, CV/Resume, or other information.

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Trans is the new Gay is the new Black is the new Jew and so on





This is not the most aesthetically amazing or well produced video - I am biased against vlogging in general for some reason, which is probably my problem - but I have a great deal of respect for this woman's bravery and openness. I mainly want to direct your attention to the comments where you will find the dregs of the youtube community are out in full…
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Posted on May 15, 2008 at 6:35pm

Ian Aleksander Adams

In Response to the Dumbest Generation / Can U Read Kant?

Dumb?


Maybe the people controlling the content of the old masters haven't quite caught up with the pace yet. Perhaps if educational resources were more readily available online there would be more educated discourse.



We will dare to know. Kant's Sapere Aude is not an outdated…
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Posted on May 15, 2008 at 6:34pm — 10 Comments

Ian Aleksander Adams

What Isn't Art?

After seeing the discussion of the recent dog and abortion pieces, and all the "that isn't art" type backlash on blogs like Perezhilton and Jezebel as well as here on ArtReview, I thought it would be nice to have a site like this as a direct and obvious reference. Instead of being focused on artistic works in specific, or discussion of any and all things about art, it's going to have a specific focus as an easily searchable database. Here's the pasted post from my… Continue

Posted on April 24, 2008 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Ian Aleksander Adams

On The Importance of a Physical Gallery

One thing I'm interested in right now is how my generation reacts to the idea of a "gallery." I've been posting images on the internet since I was ten, and had a website since I was 11. I've always grown up with the ability to instantly make any image I created public, regardless of its lasting value.



I think that almost everyone else in my generation (and socio-economic class) has had that same ability. People still seem to get excited when they get into a magazine or book, but I… Continue

Posted on February 29, 2008 at 9:21am — 1 Comment

Ian Aleksander Adams

Call for Entries!

Call for Entries

for Knees Are Weird


I'm hoping to get a large variety of unexpected submissions! For this project, I'm using the subject of knees as a launching point for creativity. Are they irreverent, absurd, mundane, odd.. even disgusting? People seem to have strong feelings about knees, but why? And do strong feelings… Continue

Posted on February 29, 2008 at 4:30am

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At 7:59am on December 19, 2008, mike hincmike hinc said…
At 6:13pm on August 31, 2008, TanyaTanya said…
i liked your page! what u say and what u do
At 12:18pm on June 29, 2008, SamSam said…
Hi, nice work.
At 6:05am on June 9, 2008, BeppeBeppe said…
Hi,
I'm from ITALY. I invite you to visit my site. www. beppedevoti.com.
I want to invite you to join me in the pure painting art. Tank Beppe
At 12:33pm on June 5, 2008, VojislaVVojislaV said…
:)
At 11:11pm on May 27, 2008, Murphy Art. ElliottMurphy Art. Elliott said…
When you have been breathing the paint fumes as long as me you will probably get spaced out as well. lol Murph
At 5:43pm on May 16, 2008, kika nicolelakika nicolela said…
hey ian, have you seen the latest discussion at the video artists group? take a look: http://www.artreview.com/group/videoartists/forum/topic/show?id=1474022%3ATopic%3A223032
It would be great if you could join the project.
Kika
At 12:54pm on March 20, 2008, mike hincmike hinc said…
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter!
At 1:24pm on March 9, 2008, Vicki DaSilvaVicki DaSilva said…
hi ian. yes, i consider my work to be site-specific installation photography. am headed to NCSU's College of Art & Design to do a piece on campus 3/17-3/21.
At 7:54pm on March 7, 2008, AlicjaAlicja said…
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