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March 4, 2013
"Jackson artists daniel johnson and Amber Johnson will collaborate on a social engagement art work entitled "WHAT IS A DINNER? : A TABLE MUST HAVE A SETTING." Through the activity of a shared meal, the artwork will bring focus to the element of ‘setting’ in realizing the C3 goals of creativity, conversation and community.
... "What is Dinner? : a table must have a setting" places the organizational priority on the creation of spaces and situations from which self-directed collaborative community relationships can grow... honoring the goals of the art work Gwylene Gallimard and Jean-Marie Mauclet have been commissioned to create as part of the C3 series. 'What is Dinner?: a table must have a setting' consists of the hosting of all core participating members of the museum C3 series past and present for an invitation only meal staged in the MS Museum of Art. daniel johnson and Amber Johnson will collaborate to identify the list of invitees, purchase and prepare the meal, and act as host. In maintaining the significance of the MS Museum of Art as the setting for community engagement in the C3 series, daniel and Amber will partner with the museum to use their facilities and dishes as the literal stage for aesthetically significant community engagement.
The piece will be documented in film by a three-camera crew capturing the general activity within the space as well as the individual conversations which take place during the course of the evening. Generated materials such as the mailed invitation will also act to document the occurrence of the work.
Date/Time: 'What is Dinner?: a table must have a setting' will coincide with the end of the first work day of the project at the Museum and will ceremoniously mark the occasion of moving the project from its various locations in the community into the staging area of the museum and the garden."
... "What is Dinner? : a table must have a setting" places the organizational priority on the creation of spaces and situations from which self-directed collaborative community relationships can grow... honoring the goals of the art work Gwylene Gallimard and Jean-Marie Mauclet have been commissioned to create as part of the C3 series. 'What is Dinner?: a table must have a setting' consists of the hosting of all core participating members of the museum C3 series past and present for an invitation only meal staged in the MS Museum of Art. daniel johnson and Amber Johnson will collaborate to identify the list of invitees, purchase and prepare the meal, and act as host. In maintaining the significance of the MS Museum of Art as the setting for community engagement in the C3 series, daniel and Amber will partner with the museum to use their facilities and dishes as the literal stage for aesthetically significant community engagement.
The piece will be documented in film by a three-camera crew capturing the general activity within the space as well as the individual conversations which take place during the course of the evening. Generated materials such as the mailed invitation will also act to document the occurrence of the work.
Date/Time: 'What is Dinner?: a table must have a setting' will coincide with the end of the first work day of the project at the Museum and will ceremoniously mark the occasion of moving the project from its various locations in the community into the staging area of the museum and the garden."
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Conversations having to do with the contextualization of ideas too vast to fit a very local situation. The pruning of concepts with extremely elaborate hand tools is a very philosophical daily activity for artists. A Zen-like compression-decompression. The two following ARTS-ACTIVISM DISCUSSIONS are now possible:
- the two social engagements of Community based Arts and Relational Arts do not point to the same priorities in the practice of the arts. How does that relationship exist here?
- the hesitancy of the museum to invite local artists is broken that day, as a meal could just be a meal, and a promotion. The meal as a Social Engagement Artwork is visible only by the informed artists and those attending the meal as it is made explicit in the invitation, conversations and toast of the meal.
- the two social engagements of Community based Arts and Relational Arts do not point to the same priorities in the practice of the arts. How does that relationship exist here?
- the hesitancy of the museum to invite local artists is broken that day, as a meal could just be a meal, and a promotion. The meal as a Social Engagement Artwork is visible only by the informed artists and those attending the meal as it is made explicit in the invitation, conversations and toast of the meal.