Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Other artist that have been use poll of quiz in art

Hans Haacke -MOMA poll-

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The idea of using polls to have a political impact was devised by Hans Haacke as a radical artistic exercise in 1969. Here we have som notes from Herbert Schiller's account of it in Culture Inc.:
The corporate outreach to museums obviously is not intended to induce social instability in the political realm. Its objective is quite the opposite. Yet whether the crowds that now flow through museums – an estimated one billion passers-through in 1987 – come out of them more depoliticized than when they entered is unknowable. It will remain so unless – a frightening prospect – "exit polls," such as those taken outside voting booths, are introduced. Even then, some fairly detailed questions would be required to elicit useful information. Actually, Hans Haacke tried this technique in some of his gallery shows, first in 1969 and then, more successully, in 1971 and 1972. He asked visitors to fill out lengthy questionnaires, tabulating the answers and making them available while the exhibit remained in place to new comers and returning information-suppliers.
In 1970, Haacke asked visitors to a show that included his work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to ballot on the question: "Would the fact that Governor Rockefeller has not denounced President Nixon's Indochina policy be a reason for you not to vote for him in November?" At the end of the twelve-week exhibition, the ballot boxes had registered the following results:
Yes 68.7%
No 31.3%

*Haacke, not unexpectedly, has not had another show at MOMA.

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Guerrilla Girls

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Other artist that emphasize are the guerrilla girls, they use this percetanges to criticizes the art market with a feminist point of view. The defendd minority group like women and racial people. They criticizes the consumption and sexist symbols that attack the image of the women.Their work content critic and ironic like main elements.



*Schiller,H; 1989. Culture Inc., Oxford UP, pp. 96–97.

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