Quiz for March 6, 2014

1. Q: Where did Michael Rakowitz attend school?

A: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

2. Q: What does Tino Sehgal refer to his works as?
A: “constructed situations”

 

3. Q:Where is the installation of The Gates by Christo and Jeanne Claude?
A:Central Park, New York City

 

4. Q: Where is David Hammons African American Flag located today?
A West 125th st. Harlem studio museum in New York city.

 

5. Q: What was the name of the political figure involved in Anri Sala’s video piece “Dammi I Colori” and where does the video take place?

A: Edi Rama, mayor of Tirana, Albania

6. Q: How many parts are there in Yang Fudong’s Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest series?
A: 5

7. Q Which work did Frances stark show in Vancouver in 2012?
A: My Best Thing.

 

8. Q: What did Neo-Concretists such as Lygia Clark believe?

A: Neo-Concretists believed that art was subjective and organic.

Or They believed that an artwork should be manipulated by the spectator.

(Both are correct)

 

9. Q: What were the reasons for Jimmie Durham using stone/s?
1. To engage in European Conversations
2. Used it as a tool to sculpt
3. Monumentality with nature

10; Q: In regards to Simon Fujiwara’s “Rebekkah”  Why did the Chinese government want to acquire this piece?

A: Because it resembled one of their national treasures, the terra cotta warriors.

 

11: Q: What mediums does Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster primarily work with

A: Video projection, photography and installation.

 

12: Liam Gillick Q: In relational art/aesthetics it is said that the artist is not at the “center of the work”, therefore who or what is “at the centre”

A: Interaction with group or audience

 

13. Q: What work did Goshka Macuga show in the Tate in 2007

A: Objects in Relation

 

14: Q: What artist worked with the Dutch secret service agency for 5 years

A: Jill Magid

 

15: Q: What does Dexter Sinister try to achieve in their artwork?

A : They strive to collapse the discrete activities of designing,editing,publishing and distributing written media, both printed and in digital form.

 

16 Q: who is the artist what is the title of this image

Wall drawing 1152 by Sol Le Witt

A: Wall drawing 1152 by Sol Le Witt, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17: Question: How were the Ninety-eight audio speakers mounted in Janet Cardiff’s 2008’s The Murder of Crows?
Answer: They were mounted around the space on stands, chairs and the wall creating a minimalist flocking of speakers.

18: Which installation by Geoffrey Farmer, shown at Documenta 13, in 2012, is described as looking down at earth?

A: Leaves of Grass, 2012