Semester 2: Vince Goole

In this lecture we had a guest speaker, Vince Goole who spoke to us about 2 artists that had inspried his work, Andrian Piper and Jenny Holzer. Adrian Piper's early work centers around the idea that being different to the morm makes you invisible as people will go out of the way to ignore you. She explored and demonstrated this idea by going out and measuring peoples reactions to her doing unusual things.

In this piece she rides the subway with a towel stuffed in her mouth and see's how the people around her pretend that she is not there. Adrain Piper is a fair skinned african american women, because of this people around her would say racist comments without realising that they are offending or upseting her. Piper's answer to this was producing a calling card which she would give or leave for the person in question.

Adrian Piper's work has a very strong confrotational edge that may make people feel uncomfortable, especially when concerning her race. Piper's work looks to have been influenced by politcally which is also similar to Jenny Holzer's work. While Jenny Holzer's work has a less confrontational edge than Adrian Piper's it too confronts people and the world that surrounds her and us. Her statements of trueism are there to give the viewer a chance to think about what is true in the world that surrounds them.