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DIY-everyone is an artist
artist: Tattfoo Tan

Everyone Is an Artist is a printed poster that is distrubuted free to demysify the art making process with step-by-step instructions, making art available, accessible and achievable. Once, understood the same technic can be applied to various media, freeing the mind to create with simple and unpretencious materials. Usually project is set up as a group effort, creating a synergy toward a single goal, achieving comradery and enriching life. The projeect is a catalyst to invite art making at home with family and friends. The idea came about during my teaching experience, from the need to create a teaching syllabus for my use and possibly the benefit of others too. DIY concept changes our relationship to commercial products and our perspective on mass production. DIY has gained momentum largely as a result of our greatly enhanced access to tools and information, which I plan to use. DIY also enables uniqueness in the things we own. It also gives rise to a number of media outlets for sharing experience, the wealth of resources has become a self-sustaining treasure chest growing at an expenential rate. My project included. Roughly based on Joseph Beuys’ famous slogan “Everyone Is an Artist” was not meant to suggest that all people should or could be creators of traditional artworks. Rather, he meant that we should not see creativity as the special realm of artists, but that everyone should apply creative thinking in their own area of specialization. Beuys imagined that an expanded application of human creativity­—and the broader definition of “art” that would follow—would result in something he called “social sculpture.” While the term encompassed many things for Beuys, it might broadly be defined as a conscious act of shaping, of bringing some aspect of the environment--whether the political system, the economy, or a classroom—from a chaotic state into a state of form, or structure. Social sculpture should be accomplished cooperatively, creatively, and across disciplines.

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Completed in: 2007
13 x 19 inches
Near or in NYC, NY / United States