being turkey (elective)
Sunday, 28 December 2008
Monday, 22 December 2008
Saturday, 20 December 2008
Thoughts and Ideas:
as a result of discussions in the end of term crit.
The focus of this crit was considering the direction of my current practice and thinking about how to take ideas further.
The key point gained from this discussion was to focus on forming a strong body of work, now that now I have a central subject I’m exploring.
I need to keep focuses on this idea of reconsidering how we react to the spaces around us. Through investigating this subject I have also started to reflect on how I present and record my work.
Certain aspects such as the issue of the duration of a performance and as mentioned before, how the final piece is presented are subjects I have been think about more carefully recently.
Considering the ‘time’ a performance exists in, is very important. The length can make or break the piece. A piece of work that is performed only exist for a few moments, there are a limited number of witnesses or sometimes none, to the actual event. It exists in a completely different way to other art. By giving duration to a performance is has more of a chance to progress, the longer it goes on for and the harder the action gets. And this is when the real work begins. Or is it something that happened so rapidly that only the traces are left.
It was also mentioned that often my work only exists as a final product. The viewer does not get to experience the process, but are presented with one final image or an edited film. For example the series of images titles ‘I climbed over so you don’t have to’ present only the final product of an action, in quite a controlled way. The viewers can form their own ideas about what actions took place from the one image they are given. The documentation of the work is never going to be the same as the actual event. You can never re stage the event as it was at first. I must consider carefully what ideas I want the final piece to convey.
Conviction in the work is still something I must persist with, if I want it to be successful and believable.
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These aspects informed ideas for new pieces of work:
Continuing ‘I climbed over so you don’t have to’.
Climbing over higher walls/ barriers and possible making a book from images. Its very important that all images follow the same format.
A two-week exploration of the ‘space in between’.
Reinvestigating at the thing that instigated this line of study. A durational performance/investigation about this space. Actions that could take place vary, but are all linked by were they will take place. Ideas included:
-Holding an event in this space, a party, meal and club meeting.
-Spending a day in this space, unknown by people working in the studio. Recording the sounds and movements from their point of view.
-Drawing /making work for the space that is labour intensive, then boarding up the entrance and inviting people to view the work that they now can not really see.
-Try to fit everything in the room/everyone in the class in this space.
-What could escape from this space? Bubbles, smoke, noises, people.
-Sounds from behind the space, of climbing /drawing, could be amplified, by using microphones fix to walls. Sound traces of the actions are played back after event.
Relationships between objects.
An ongoing enquiry in to what happens when objects are grouped and placed together. The noises created between them and the relationships that are formed.
Restaging photographs.
Offering a photocopying service, a photo is given to me and I will and remake the image with the material and equipment surrounding me. This process will have a time limit and only the single image of the restaged photo will record the procedure.
The focus of this crit was considering the direction of my current practice and thinking about how to take ideas further.
The key point gained from this discussion was to focus on forming a strong body of work, now that now I have a central subject I’m exploring.
I need to keep focuses on this idea of reconsidering how we react to the spaces around us. Through investigating this subject I have also started to reflect on how I present and record my work.
Certain aspects such as the issue of the duration of a performance and as mentioned before, how the final piece is presented are subjects I have been think about more carefully recently.
Considering the ‘time’ a performance exists in, is very important. The length can make or break the piece. A piece of work that is performed only exist for a few moments, there are a limited number of witnesses or sometimes none, to the actual event. It exists in a completely different way to other art. By giving duration to a performance is has more of a chance to progress, the longer it goes on for and the harder the action gets. And this is when the real work begins. Or is it something that happened so rapidly that only the traces are left.
It was also mentioned that often my work only exists as a final product. The viewer does not get to experience the process, but are presented with one final image or an edited film. For example the series of images titles ‘I climbed over so you don’t have to’ present only the final product of an action, in quite a controlled way. The viewers can form their own ideas about what actions took place from the one image they are given. The documentation of the work is never going to be the same as the actual event. You can never re stage the event as it was at first. I must consider carefully what ideas I want the final piece to convey.
Conviction in the work is still something I must persist with, if I want it to be successful and believable.
.
These aspects informed ideas for new pieces of work:
Continuing ‘I climbed over so you don’t have to’.
Climbing over higher walls/ barriers and possible making a book from images. Its very important that all images follow the same format.
A two-week exploration of the ‘space in between’.
Reinvestigating at the thing that instigated this line of study. A durational performance/investigation about this space. Actions that could take place vary, but are all linked by were they will take place. Ideas included:
-Holding an event in this space, a party, meal and club meeting.
-Spending a day in this space, unknown by people working in the studio. Recording the sounds and movements from their point of view.
-Drawing /making work for the space that is labour intensive, then boarding up the entrance and inviting people to view the work that they now can not really see.
-Try to fit everything in the room/everyone in the class in this space.
-What could escape from this space? Bubbles, smoke, noises, people.
-Sounds from behind the space, of climbing /drawing, could be amplified, by using microphones fix to walls. Sound traces of the actions are played back after event.
Relationships between objects.
An ongoing enquiry in to what happens when objects are grouped and placed together. The noises created between them and the relationships that are formed.
Restaging photographs.
Offering a photocopying service, a photo is given to me and I will and remake the image with the material and equipment surrounding me. This process will have a time limit and only the single image of the restaged photo will record the procedure.
Monday, 15 December 2008
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
crit
Crit- ‘over the wall’ photos and ‘traces of climb ’ video piece
-Context/conceptual ideas- I want to change the way I look at space. Investigate it using my body. React to space differently to what is expected of you. This was first realised after a brief from my elective- to make a one minute film called being animal. I wanted to climb/explore and investigate the space the way an animal may. To seek out the no-spaces.
-How work has developed. I’ve become much more interested in how I can document the exploration of a space. Rather than just filming the climb, what traces are left? How can this action be expressed, through marks, sounds, drawings etc. This piece of work is a re-edit of a piece of work I had previously done. The viewer is only given hints of a human present, slowly making there way around the room. ‘Over the wall images’ also follow this idea of an action that has taken place, and has been missed. Focusing on one idea has also been a hard; although I feel more committed to this work then I do to most. When the struggle begins so does the real work?
-Artist / theorist you have looked at-Rirkrit Tiravanija (events that leave traces) Matthew Barney, Lucy Gunning, Richard Dedomenici, George Perec.
-NEXT- climbing over walls-higher ones.
Performance that is controlled by viwers:
plan...
Duration- 1hour
There will be a room; it will have just a chair (maybe more objects)
The room will be shut
There will be a mouth piece that can be used for communication. Using a map viewer’s instruct my movement around the space. I will trace my steps using tape/charcoal/ pencil…
After an hour the room will be opened, and the collaborative drawing reviled.
Also. Re staging photographs /study of a group of objects (over long period of time).
-Context/conceptual ideas- I want to change the way I look at space. Investigate it using my body. React to space differently to what is expected of you. This was first realised after a brief from my elective- to make a one minute film called being animal. I wanted to climb/explore and investigate the space the way an animal may. To seek out the no-spaces.
-How work has developed. I’ve become much more interested in how I can document the exploration of a space. Rather than just filming the climb, what traces are left? How can this action be expressed, through marks, sounds, drawings etc. This piece of work is a re-edit of a piece of work I had previously done. The viewer is only given hints of a human present, slowly making there way around the room. ‘Over the wall images’ also follow this idea of an action that has taken place, and has been missed. Focusing on one idea has also been a hard; although I feel more committed to this work then I do to most. When the struggle begins so does the real work?
-Artist / theorist you have looked at-Rirkrit Tiravanija (events that leave traces) Matthew Barney, Lucy Gunning, Richard Dedomenici, George Perec.
-NEXT- climbing over walls-higher ones.
Performance that is controlled by viwers:
plan...
Duration- 1hour
There will be a room; it will have just a chair (maybe more objects)
The room will be shut
There will be a mouth piece that can be used for communication. Using a map viewer’s instruct my movement around the space. I will trace my steps using tape/charcoal/ pencil…
After an hour the room will be opened, and the collaborative drawing reviled.
Also. Re staging photographs /study of a group of objects (over long period of time).
Sunday, 7 December 2008
Michel De Certeau 'The practice of everyday life'
'.... From TV to newspapers ,from advertising to all sorts of mercantile epiphanies, our society is characterized by a cancerous growth of vision, measuring everything by its ability to show or be shown and transmuting communication into a visual journey'....
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