[PSEAD]Cube with Bio Printed Ear Scaffold

Figure 1"Cube with Bio Printed Ear Scaffold" by American artist Lynn Hershman Leeson (born 1941), picture by Jevons

The loneliest thing is not along, but no one heard you in the crowd

This artworks called "Cube with Bio Printed Ear Scaffold" by American artist Lynn Hershman Leeson (born 1941), It is made by acrylic(ear model) and ABS plastic(cube), the exterior is 4 x 4 x 4 inches (10.16 x 10.16 x 10.16 cm)

Contemporary art is hard to be accept in art world, some people think what she do is not really art at all, her project doesn't use traditional skill like painting but new generation media try to convey more information about social commentary, particularly on the relationship between people and technology.

She emphasize the interactive with audience, people can find the meaning from her works by moving image, drawing, collage, text-based work, site-specific interventions, and later new media / digital technologies.

But the question is ‘when’ is contemporary? The art historian Alexander Alberro said origin:

The year following 1989 have seen the emergence of a new historical period. Not only has there been the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite states and the heralding of the era of globalization, but technologically there has been the full integration of electronic or digital culture, and economically, neoliberalism, with its goal to bring all human action into the domain of the market, has become hegemonic. Within the context of the fine arts, the new period has come to be known as “the contemporary.” (Alberro, 2009, p. 55)

Professor in Art History at Stanford University – Richard Meyer mention that about contemporary ‘The students in the class understand the designation “contemporary” differently than I had expected. Rather than referring to art since 1945, art since 1960, or even art since 1970, “contemporary” meant to them the work of artists exhibiting today and in the immediate past.’ (Meyer, 2013, p. 12)

This project try to convey a information from herself -

“The art world couldn’t hear me — that’s why I have an ear in there,” she said in an interview

In my opinion, the symbol of ear is good to be white acrylic, not so real not so abstract, so the audience can easy to understand the meaning of this model but the transparent cube can not really represent the despair situation, we still can see the ear clearly that can not feel the barrier between artist and art word.

But this kind of silence, intellect cube barrier maybe is what the artist want to convey, the rampart  from a cold, sane , great art word.

The list of illustrations

Figure 1"Cube with Bio Printed Ear Scaffold" by American artist Lynn Hershman Leeson (born 1941), picture by Jevons

Bibliography

Alberro, A. (2009). Questionnaire on 'The Contemporary'. OCTOBER 130, p. 55.

MeyerRichard. (2013). WHAT WAS CONTEMPORARY ART? Cambridge, UK: MIT press