Dan Graham | I hate Conceptual Art

The legendary artist Dan Graham doesn’t see himself as a conceptual artist. ”I hate conceptual art. I don’t believe in it. It’s bullshit”
”I situate my work as a hybrid between literature, philosophy and dance...halfway between art and design”
Dan Graham talks about his art, and what he is exploring and investigating as an artist.
The artwork in this video is Dan Graham’s site-specific installation atop The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden comprising curves of steel and two-way mirrored glass between ivy hedgerows. The pavilion responding to it’s specific site, reflecting the modernist skyscraper facades, the idyllic Central Park and the viewers engaging with the piece.
The piece was on view April 29th through November 2nd 2014
Dan Graham (b 1942) has had retrospective exhibitions and solo shows at The Metropolitan Museum, New York (2014), Shaker Museum, New York (2014), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2009); Museu Seralves Porto, Portugal(2001); The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (1981); Kunsthalle Berne (1983), the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (1985), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1993), and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Grahams work has appeared in numerous international exhibitions. He has exhibited recently at the Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu (2010), the Espace d’Art Contemporain et musee des beaux-Arts, La Rochelle, France (2011), and the Turner Contemporary, Kent, United Kingdom (2013). He has participated in Documenta V (972), VI (1977), VII (1982), IX (1992), and X (1997). He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2010), the French Vermeil Medal, Paris (2001) and the Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award (1992)
CREDITS
Dan Graham | filmed by Out of Sync | NYC May 2014
Interview | Jesper Bundgaard
Camera and edit | Per Henriksen
Producer | Out of Sync
Artworks courtesy | Dan Graham
© Out of Sync 2015

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so i see these people smallish coz im looking at a computer screen. drawing on my memories of NYC, and of Americans in general, it appears that these people are reserved and their posture shows a kind of preparedness, ready to react, what i suppose would be typical of living in a place where one is constantly around people in public, and where one is necessarily cautious because one never knows how the other people or person may react. no one is dancing or playing before the mirrored images, no one is in a "fun house," all are pretty solemn and contemplative as perhaps befits a museum experience and then coming out to this beautiful view, where buildings tower over a lovely slice of nature (thank you FLO!). and Dan Graham continues his narrative overlay, and sometimes the camera goes to him, and then i read the other comments and think okey i will comment too so i did

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who is ses segalo?

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credit for the composer of the video?

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An artist that rejects philosophy in art?

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Waste of space