talking of laboratory way of working as and with ‘mediators’, cross disciplines meaningful way of working is of mobility and change, to collide, to collaborate, to poke thinking of my own work and how I can adapt to this? – invite people to respond to Home and to change the audio allow audience to […]
talking about the components which have become part of my work – can travel, adapt, install and play with ‘to construct’ – both myself and others can manipulate them we talked about Elly Thomas – an artist that I have researched before – she gave a talk here. I am going to re-read her paper […]
Relational Aesthetics – Nicolas Bourriaud (1998) Relational form….http://post.thing.net/files/relationalaesthetics.pdf Notes Critical study of forms of the present product of Modernity – 20th century advancement and belief that all could be better exploitation moved – technology and progress broadening of art forms look at Plastic Fantastique – sensual material pg 7/8 – Form of the work different […]
Advised before to look at Pigott in my second year and have been advised to look again – so reacquainted myself there is something quite beautiful about the objects that he makes – I enjoy their humour and immediate pleasure investigates fetishism of domestic manias and associated lunacy of consumer choice, social implications of consumption, […]
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‘ – […]
I was interested in Seebach’s use of line within a space to create sculptural forms of negative spaces – her works are akin to drawing in space steel & ceramic components made in relation to the human form – negative space occupies a large part of each sculpture ‘in-between state’ each sculpture conjures an amplified […]
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 […]