Yayoi Kusama – Victoria Miro – London Summer 2016
http://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/31-yayoi-kusama/
Rana Begum – The Space Between – Parasol Unit – London
http://parasol-unit.org/rana-begum-the-space-between
Tony Oursler
Started researching for my essay and below are just some key notes (Oursler talking) from a conversation between Tony Oursler and Dan Graham from the Book – Tony Oursler – 20-21 Collection 2001 – Elizabeth Janus & Gloria Moure “more interested in trying to the take the soap-operatic or, as you put it, mythic reality […]
Arnulf Rainer
Images from Clara – Spooks and Fairytales sketching, distorting images of babies – normal beautiful snapshots drawn over
Lindsay Seers – 3rd March – artist talk
Looked up Lindsay Seers work prior to the talk and read a couple of articles about her work. The fantastical world of Lindsay Seers “Her video installations transport the viewer to a cacophonous wonderland inhabited by shamans, fortune-tellers, transgender ventriloquists, and people with strange medical conditions, where multiple narrative voices and film projections disolve […]
Reflection – 25th March
have been in workshop making molds and wax casts of dolls arms created a ball of arms – reminds me of a jack from a childhood game – would like to roll but is very fragile interested in mixing up materials to use metal with the wax to make playful objects enjoy the art of […]
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 […]