‘Every Space I’ve Lived in, I’ve Turned Into an Art Project’: Watch Artist Andrea Zittel Build Art and Design Into Her Daily Life

For the artist and native Californian Andrea
Zittel, every aspect of her life is an opportunity for
discovery and creation.

The artist, who has lived in Joshua Tree’s desert landscape east
of Los Angeles for more than 15 years, has fully integrated her art
practice with her daily life, incorporating design as a way to
bridge conceptual experiments with practical and functional
needs.

“Every space that I’ve lived in, I’ve turned into an art
project,” Zittel says in an exclusive interview as part of Art21’s
“Extended Play” series. She adds that everything in her home “has
really evolved with my life.”

Zittel does, however, make a distinction between art and design,
noting that “design has power, because it
actually touches people in a more concrete way,” while, with art,
“there’s more wiggle room and flexibility.”

In the video, Zittel discusses a series of
cardboard boxes that influenced her Aggregated
Stacks (2010), modular structures that can become
shelving units or discrete art objects, depending on what a person
wants or needs.

Right now, at Carnegie Mellon University’s Miller Institute of
Contemporary Art, a survey of new and old art and design objects by
Zittel are on display in a show appropriately called “An Institute of Investigative Living.”

Watch the video, which originally appeared as part
of Art21’s Art in the Twenty-First Century series, below.
“Andrea Zittel: An Institute of Investigative
Living” is on view at the Miller Institute
of Contemporary Art at Carnegie Mellon University. through
March 8, 2020. 

This is an installment of “Art on Video,” a collaboration
between artnet News and Art21 that brings you clips of newsmaking
artists. A new series of the nonprofit Art21’s flagship series Art
in the Twenty-First Century is available now on PBS. Catch all
episodes of other series like New York Close Up and Extended Play
and learn about the organization’s educational programs
at Art21.org.

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