Bricolage: “do it yourself” Using bric-a-brac, the mundane and ordinary stuff of every day life, as a base material to create works of art.
Braconnage: “poaching” “ a dynamic process of establishing routes through “artisan-like inventiveness”. It is less schematic that bricolage.
“Both Bricolage and Braconnage are tactical rather than strategic methods of making and thinking: that is, they rely on a day-to-day form of piecing together nad making sense of the world, not preplaned, but made up as you go along.”
For example:
Friedman uses soap powder in his monochrome work of a snow angel, and hard candy sucked to diminishing sizes and stuck together to reflect on childhood. His “rug” made of masking tape poaches on the placement and forms of the earlier works of art. His work with a jigsaw puzzle in 1990, was a metaphor for what he was trying to do: “to piece something together.”
Both Bricolage and Braconnage are recycling things from the world around the artists, and maybe as importantly, from the world around the viewers.
Braconnage: “poaching” “ a dynamic process of establishing routes through “artisan-like inventiveness”. It is less schematic that bricolage.
“Both Bricolage and Braconnage are tactical rather than strategic methods of making and thinking: that is, they rely on a day-to-day form of piecing together nad making sense of the world, not preplaned, but made up as you go along.”
For example:
Friedman uses soap powder in his monochrome work of a snow angel, and hard candy sucked to diminishing sizes and stuck together to reflect on childhood. His “rug” made of masking tape poaches on the placement and forms of the earlier works of art. His work with a jigsaw puzzle in 1990, was a metaphor for what he was trying to do: “to piece something together.”
Both Bricolage and Braconnage are recycling things from the world around the artists, and maybe as importantly, from the world around the viewers.