BAS JAN ADER
I thought that the series of works in response to Bas Jan Ader's 'searching for a miracle' was really interesting and moving. There was a breadth of responses and I was intrigued to see the individuality in each response. I found it comforting to see that each account was special in its own way, sometime I get easily caught up in the right way to do things according to a marking scheme or according to what will please another person, but these responses reminded me of the importance of your own voice.
A small bit on Bas
1942 - 1975
- Dutch/Californian artist
- conceptual/performance
- last seen in 1975
- took off in what would have been the smallest sailboat ever to cross the Atlantic, a work titled In Search of the Miraculous.
- left behind a small oeuvre, often using gravity as a medium
The Homages Begin
David Horvitz - I'll meet you here
http://vimeo.com/1279364
This is the video conception of I'll Meet You Here in which an arrow hovers on the horizon
Claire Fontaine
Please Come Back, 2011
An interesting comment regarding 'appropriation' - "she refuses the qualification of “appropriationist”, preferring the one of “expropriationist” that insists on the use value of the borrowed references, and on the political meaning of theft."
It's a bit confusing as to whether this work was created as a homage to Bas Jan Ader or not!
Guppy 13 vs Ocean Wave; a Bas Jan Ader Experience
Guppy 13 is the exact same model as Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader’s boat ‘Ocean Wave’
Bas Jan Ader's boat, 'Ocean Wave,' was found unmanned and partially submerged 150 miles off the coast of Ireland by a Spanish fishing vessel in 1976. It was taken to La Coruña, Spain for investigation. A few weeks later, the boat was stolen and it was never found.
"I found the same type of sailboat that Ader used, a Guppy 13, I bought it and got it shipped to Amsterdam. I invited visitors to live through Bas Jan Ader's experience, albeit it only for a few minutes, in this sailboat on Amsterdam's waters. The only rule was that everybody had to get on the sailboat by themselves. So, I recreated exactly the same physical conditions of Bas Jan Ader's experience. In the video, we see a fictional documentary, in which Guppy 13 sails backwards to start from the end of its uncompleted journey. When we look closely, we notice that the single passenger on Guppy 13 is constantly changing. The music we listen to while watching the video is a Henry Russell composition playing backwards, which was part of Bas Jan Ader's last project. In a way, it is the documentary of a journey backwards in time." - Ahmet Ogut.
TIME LINE
7th of May 2010
Guppy 13, purchased from Zakry Standerfer and shipped from USA, arrived to the Netherlands.
28th of June 2010
Guppy 13 was stolen in Amsterdam waters.
16th of October 2010
After 4 months, Guppy 13 was found on Lijnbaansgracht, Amsterdam
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