Explore a physical boundary. | Zarouhie Abdalian | The Art Assignment

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We come to you from San Francisco's Exploratorium, where we met with artist-in-residence Zarouhie Abdalian. For her assignment, she wants you to focus on boundaries and the relationships between the spaces they separate.
Sarah Green then discusses conceptual artist Michael Asher, who asks us to question the invisible boundary that art institutions create.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Find two spaces that share a boundary
2. Do something to highlight or alter the relationship between those two spaces
3. Document it in some way and upload using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)
Find out more about The Art Assignment and how to submit your response: theartassignment.com/

[@quixiiify]

""We all like to congregate," he went on, "at *boundary* conditions. "Really?" said Arthur. "Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where space meets time. *We like to be on one side, and look at the other.*"" - _Mostly Harmless_, Douglas Adams

[@kilo3989]

Quixii Q YES

[@KannikCat]

Ooo, as an architect I am looking forward to seeing the results of this one, with its interplay of how boundaries create, shape, and inform space and the experience within and without. Loved the examples in the historical exploration, reminded me in some ways of the Eisenman exhibit at the CCA (if in terms of spatial insertion and not so much as much in the challenging of the museum experience). I'm totally going to do this one!

[@idiotsloveboxes]

I'm surprised no one mentioned Banksy's murals in the West Bank. They were such a powerful criticism of geopolitics.

[@saranna00]

A really relevant artist who uses the tension between spaces springs to mind: Ana Teresa Fernández. In "Borrando la Frontera" (2011) she painted a length of the barrier separating Mexico from the US so that from a distance, it looked like the barrier wasn't there.

[@LuwukaW]

My first thoughts on boundaries are about the laptop screen I watched this video on, inside it's boundaries. Also the boxes that you check on forms or census's about race/gender/religion etc. Those could be viewed as boundaries to human expression/identity. On a different note, the Exploratorium reminds me of OMSI, but art focused instead of science.

[@sammyangel98]

I love how Michael Asher (@4:16) used science for art! It shows art can be made from amazingly almost anything, really.

[@billygoatideas]

Happy 100,000 subscribers!

[@EARSandelbows]

I think I'm going to do a photograph series of gardening on the carpet of my living room with the door open, showering on the patio, putting a couch cushion in my sink, or washing dishes on my bed. My apartment is really small so all of the living spaces are open and right next to each other but they're still very divided.

[@estellyjam]

I am feeling inspired..........

[@davidshi451]

***** Then go for it! :)

[@Tigermond1]

God, I love The Art Assignment. This one is quite a challenge (to me at least)... I have an idea, but I don't know how exactly to realize it. I'm thinking of the minds/consciousnesses of humans that are obviously automatically very separated "spaces" (even physically), because you can never really enter someone else's consciousness and your own brain is always and will always be just in your own head. What you can do though is you can at least try to kind of cross that boundary (to some extend) by talking or writing, by showing empathy and sharing your thoughts and feelings with others. I would find that particularly interesting when it comes to strangers, because first, they would have to figure out where their particular boundaries are and then how to kind of exceed them...like in a chat. But yeah, that are just some thoughts that came to me after watching this, and I don't know what to do with this idea. That I'm a very introverted person also doesn't help.

[@ARTiculations]

Wow the possibilities here are seemingly endless! But I have some ideas about urban and city boundaries - I think that is what I will focus on for this assignment :)

[@cellogirl0096]

This is a really cool assignment!

[@willwarren]

I'm going to put my food in my washing machine and my clothes in my fridge.

[@marysrinivas913]

Sarah, please come to Savannah! We have many amazing artists here along with the Savannah College of Art and Design, whose students and teachers produce amazing and varied work.

[@mikecoki2276]

I thought about the house from the movie Up!

[@thejtotti29]

I think I'm in love with Zarouhie.

[@PPR88]

She's so cute!

[@pwhite102]

Did any one respond to this video with computer windows as boundaries? I've recently been teaching myself coding and I've been thinking about the boundaries of ability and skill that kept me from using computers in that way in the past.

[@laurendesousa8119]

Think I know what I wanna do....

[@Matiburon04]

This is pretty much an architecture assignment.

[@timothyturpin5869]

Fiaca Highlighting the boundary between architecture as functionality and architecture as art, perhaps?

[@Matiburon04]

Timothy Turpin I meant that working with those boundarys and the way interact is in itself part of architecture. See Mies Van de Rohe in the Barcelona Pavillion, for example.

[@ARTiculations]

Fiaca As someone who works in architecture - this assignment is very exciting! :D

[@aerosimmy]

Fiaca In some ways yes, but the idea that I have (which will hopefully happen sooner rather than later) has more to do with the boundary between different sets of people and/or between the steps in a particular process.

[@Xenolilly]

It's like a lesson from Merlin. :)

[@amandabarr1282]

I love to draw, I love to be creative in many ways, but i'll never be an Artist because i just don't think like one. If you took a blank canvas and put a black frame around it, I would call you lazy not an artist. I've seen kindergardener's put a line through a paper and call it art, so to me it's the same thing. Good on ya' keep doing what your doing but i just can't relate to this.

[@jeremiahrodriguez4481]

Still don’t get it

[@jehan9986]

I don't get it