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 […]
“As Spectator I was interested in Photography only for “sentimental” reasons; I wanted to explore it not as a question (a theme) but as a wound: I see, I feel, hence I notice, I observe, and I think” (Barthes, Barthes, and Howard, 1982)(Barthes, Barthes, and Howard, 1982, pp. 13 – 13) “Four image-repertoires intersect here, […]
how does self loathing make it feel any better if pain was an object what would it look like, what would you do with it? Watched “Wild” by Jean-Marc Vallée – amazingly powerful and honest film or death, loss, destruction and self loathing
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 – […]
Lisson Gallery – facial recognition
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 […]
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 […]
Conrad Shawcross – 2nd December 2015 Harmonies of art and science – very mathmatical which perhaps is why I struggled listening to him. Some of the work I loved, the mechanical movement, the rhytmic sound, the scale and the cleverness. I couldn’t help feel a little bored. I’m sure he is immensely clever, articulate and […]
Reading a single work of ART
Watched this really interesting piece about fear. It had a haunting commentary throughout discussing fear, what makes us feel fear, why we seek it out, how we do it etc , through the use of various clips of horror films from across time and culture. Fascinating realisation that we create the supernatural as a way […]