Tutorial – GW – 1st March
Object Reader – book Haim Steinbach Trash Humpers Kasper Hauser I questionned if it’s a problem for my work to be too literal – is it? Perhaps the faces of the politicians on grater is too much – should try to reduce them – or perhaps not! play with the object – mouse trap, on […]
Humour – Seminar – 25th February – GW
Humour – coping mechanism – coping with uncertainties laugh due to trouble with what I see ‘When humour becomes painful’ book – reserve from library Freud on humour Paul Macarthy William Pope L Humour is release of repression ‘persiflage’ – making fun of self creates shield Davida Hewlett – Kate Bush video Joanna Rytal – […]
Tony Oursler interviews and viewing work
Lisson Gallery – facial recognition
Bruce Nauman – The Godfather of Modern Art
Notes taken from Video Tate – Turbine hall = voices/sounds not seen but coming from walls – hear a hum in hall anyway used pre recorded original sounds contradictory in his life, reclusive, doesn’t explain his work, lives in country with his horses language – spoken word – written word in neon and prints 1966 […]
Ideas – 23rd February
Video – write on edible paper and eat/swallow the words peas, greens, shit, pride, anger, hurt etc – eat your fucking greens Fingers through fabric – mattress make a figure with TV as head – dress it so that tv is behind construction, painting and projection
Ideas – 19th February 2016
eyes in the mattress or fingers looking in and out in loving memory of ……………………………… (take from TED film) 2 sets of legs = can’t see the bigger torso – just adjusting in the seat with doll sat next to them project maps of homes of photographs onto objects Therapist – the rapist Don Glove […]
My neighbour died today – 22nd February 2016
So I just got a text to say that my neighbour has died….do I rush back?……for what?…….to see another empty body….. a cold and waxy corpse……………what’s the rush what will happen if I don’t go, will she die again? I block the pain out. It can’t renter my body – I will not allow that. […]
Love – seminar with GW
we are all alone – we are all related at the same time – sometimes we meet, sometimes we don’t told through disco – Donna Summer, Diana Ross death of disco 1979 – by rock and anti disco movement Stuck on you – Davinia Hewlett not knowingness making love rub throb realness – Paris is […]
Research – 19th Feb 2016
Oscar Kokoshcka March 1885 – February 1980 was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright. In 1928 he commissioned a doll maker to recreate his muse/love into a lifesize doll. He insisted on details and went to great lengths to the specifications of her curves and feel and the texture of her skin. The doll […]