post assessment feedback put other ideas to side for another time and future ongoing practice I have all the theory, back story and content but am feeling inhibited by it Just ‘play’ with the materials I have focus on pipes and install source loads of pipes – look into sponsorship construct and install materials not […]
In this group session we are going to collectively unpack ideas found in Simon O’Sullivan’s text “The Production of Subjectivity”. Do try and read this in advance and outline any key questions you wish to discuss. In this paper, he considers theories of subjectivity, specifically the formation of subjectivities through the diverse set of relations […]
Artist Talk at Falmouth University Show two films ‘Presto‘ of a violinist shot on 35mm to achieve perfect execution of composers violin piece – which is impossible to play same frame filmed x6 times – allowed violinist to choose ‘perfect execution’ looking at construction of film as well as being seduced by music ‘Dissonance‘ – […]
Reading for workshop on Tuesday 6th February. We will look at some proposed differences between ‘curating’ and ‘the curatorial’ as discussed by Beatrice von Bismarck and Irit Rogoff in Cultures of the Curatorial. They ask what are the different claims made for the exhibition as a space of experimentation, critique, rhetoric or mediation? How do these […]
i am drawn back to the use of projection onto objects – the use of the ‘talisman’ to project ideas upon the body is not as important as the face – as is the same with close ups on film and TV the face and its’ components become emphasised and larger
looking again at Tony Oursler – edited by Simona Lodi 1998 1970’s movement of art – with a generation formed by media of TV – ‘form follows content‘ disenchanted with TV as an object celebrated by previous generation of artists (Nam June Paik etc) “…converting a household appliance into art whereas, I felt like the […]
The Curatorial Turn: From Practice to Discourse by Paul O’Neil (2006) Discussed during this weeks workshop on Curating/ Curatorial Practice – Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism – Is there no alternative? Additional reading – The Curatorial Turn. The Death of the Author, Roland Barthes 1967 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1a2LYacetDs1yArRu-kOFtvU6-nYDXEky
January 2018 – John Akomfrah – ‘Unfinished Conversations‘ – breathtaking and beautiful triptych film installation about Stuart Hall January 2018 – Susan Hiller – ‘Monument’ – Tate – very powerful, immersive huge monumental piece yet with the power to feel incredibly intimate when the viewer sits on the bench and listens with the single pair […]
Door knobs suggested that difficult to crit as not a finished piece perhaps too static – using the pendulum idea to get the piece moving slowly that the piece could create sound in movement – use guitar strings rather than tacky fishing wire – in this way the pendulum would make sound Sink project in […]
