constants:
changing a space
vintage fabric
leaving materials at site
working with found objects and structures in original space
habitable yet uninhabited
20090429
Area 8 Pearl hunters
I started gathering oyster shells for this project and then became fully absorbed in gathering
constants:
changing a space
vintage fabric
leaving materials at site
working with found objects and structures in original space
habitable yet uninhabited
constants:
changing a space
vintage fabric
leaving materials at site
working with found objects and structures in original space
habitable yet uninhabited
20090422
20090419
20090418
Essay Synopsis.
im blank.
...does there have to be a blurb to explain the work?
-hypothesis>....yes this is a HE course get over it
Skinners motivational theory - i am not inspired to write this synopsis because past similar activities (chores) have not induced pleasure. Im not happy with explaining/contextualising/researching my work within the institutional constructs of a scholarly essay... (structuralism/post structuralism link)
Toni's nearly finished hers and said my advice worked; to use the essay as an opportunity for growth, fun and exploration. time to take own advice.
It involves listening to loud punk music..wahey
Ok heres first draft..
DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SYNOPSIS
I am going to explore and break down relevant theories and debates that relate to my art practice to be able to formulate a statement that expresses my personal philosophy and underpins my work.
My work is about finding and exploring something fresh and alive. It is focused around a planned act or chemistry of a moment that can only be experienced by those present at the site. Photography is used to document the work.
My work is constantly changing theoretically and therefore visually, I am a de-centred practitioner working on multiple themes with an indistinct style running through all of my work. I am constantly journeying, understanding, testing and hypothesizing concepts whilst, running parrallel, am attempting to express a concept relatively and objectively.
I appreciate the controversial, innovative and ritualistic performances of Joseph Beuys and will investigate Beuys essays, ‘Not just a few are called, but everyone,’ and ‘I am searching for Field Vision.’ Strangely, Beuys created his public persona from fact and fiction, this self-appointed personal stance thread takes some of the objectivity away from the viewer. Yet this subjectivity may have been a prerequisite to his further works, in a similar way to my semester 3 (which in hindsight are art as therapy) creations. Art Theorist, Benjamin Buchloh criticises Beuys retreat into myths and symbolism and criticises Beuys’ rhetoric, calling it, ‘simple minded, utopian drivel’. I will take into account Rosalind Krauss’s writings on Beuys and link this to my work.
Following the above, I see myself as having re-accessed art at the beginning of Semester 4. Although absorbing and participating in Semester 3, my creations and thoughts were within the ‘art as therapy’ bracket, which was necessary at that time. I had to test the limits of art as therapy in a similar way to testing painting and printmaking as an artform to be able to put them to rest and to move on. I have rejected pretty pictures.I am interested in art being a way of life and how much art and life can infringe and harmonise with each other. This links with ideological political philosophies that I feel in the right place to be able to realise, encourage, disentangle and reformulate.
My current main project is creating public dens that are habitable yet initially uninhabited. The aesthetic is predetermined by the site and by the found objects used to create the den and the control is a piece of vintage fabric, usually used for the dens roof. The touch of intention upon initialising this project was to change spaces and integrate these spaces into the environment, with intention to leave the dens after initial creation to be evolved, de-created or untouched by the public, institution workers and nature.
I am interested in what happens to the dens post-creation and am going to attempt summarising this with reference to Barthes essay, ‘From work to text.’
now i just need to clean that up and add images..
...does there have to be a blurb to explain the work?
-hypothesis>....yes this is a HE course get over it
Skinners motivational theory - i am not inspired to write this synopsis because past similar activities (chores) have not induced pleasure. Im not happy with explaining/contextualising/researching my work within the institutional constructs of a scholarly essay... (structuralism/post structuralism link)
Toni's nearly finished hers and said my advice worked; to use the essay as an opportunity for growth, fun and exploration. time to take own advice.
It involves listening to loud punk music..wahey
Ok heres first draft..
DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SYNOPSIS
I am going to explore and break down relevant theories and debates that relate to my art practice to be able to formulate a statement that expresses my personal philosophy and underpins my work.
My work is about finding and exploring something fresh and alive. It is focused around a planned act or chemistry of a moment that can only be experienced by those present at the site. Photography is used to document the work.
My work is constantly changing theoretically and therefore visually, I am a de-centred practitioner working on multiple themes with an indistinct style running through all of my work. I am constantly journeying, understanding, testing and hypothesizing concepts whilst, running parrallel, am attempting to express a concept relatively and objectively.
I appreciate the controversial, innovative and ritualistic performances of Joseph Beuys and will investigate Beuys essays, ‘Not just a few are called, but everyone,’ and ‘I am searching for Field Vision.’ Strangely, Beuys created his public persona from fact and fiction, this self-appointed personal stance thread takes some of the objectivity away from the viewer. Yet this subjectivity may have been a prerequisite to his further works, in a similar way to my semester 3 (which in hindsight are art as therapy) creations. Art Theorist, Benjamin Buchloh criticises Beuys retreat into myths and symbolism and criticises Beuys’ rhetoric, calling it, ‘simple minded, utopian drivel’. I will take into account Rosalind Krauss’s writings on Beuys and link this to my work.
Following the above, I see myself as having re-accessed art at the beginning of Semester 4. Although absorbing and participating in Semester 3, my creations and thoughts were within the ‘art as therapy’ bracket, which was necessary at that time. I had to test the limits of art as therapy in a similar way to testing painting and printmaking as an artform to be able to put them to rest and to move on. I have rejected pretty pictures.I am interested in art being a way of life and how much art and life can infringe and harmonise with each other. This links with ideological political philosophies that I feel in the right place to be able to realise, encourage, disentangle and reformulate.
My current main project is creating public dens that are habitable yet initially uninhabited. The aesthetic is predetermined by the site and by the found objects used to create the den and the control is a piece of vintage fabric, usually used for the dens roof. The touch of intention upon initialising this project was to change spaces and integrate these spaces into the environment, with intention to leave the dens after initial creation to be evolved, de-created or untouched by the public, institution workers and nature.
I am interested in what happens to the dens post-creation and am going to attempt summarising this with reference to Barthes essay, ‘From work to text.’
now i just need to clean that up and add images..
20090417
Work by BA hons 3rd year @ Colchester Institute
http://www.redbubble.com/people/new-horizons
gut reaction to initial images all placed together on a webpage (or in future exhibition) - disconnection between varied subject matter and what each student is persuing..
gut reaction to initial images all placed together on a webpage (or in future exhibition) - disconnection between varied subject matter and what each student is persuing..
p.s. the Cindy Sherman private view
i heard that the experience of Cindy Sherman's private view last night was shit even though Sherman was there herself. I heard there was sardines of pretentious art students (from the (un)trusted source of gilbert richards) bragging about which prestigious artschool's they attend.... if i wasn't so financially fucked i would have gone to see what she actually looks like, let alone her 3 exhibited photographs.
And as Toni and I were discussing on Wednesday, its quality, not quantity that's important. We weren't talking about Sherman's (lack of) photos.
And as Toni and I were discussing on Wednesday, its quality, not quantity that's important. We weren't talking about Sherman's (lack of) photos.
hypothesis for DENS
reflection. Den 2 and 3 have a sense of emptiness and nothingness (in a negative sense because this was not intentional)
why. can tell that they havent been inhabited or are unhabitable for humans. insect & rat habitat. disconnection and isolation from den was not the intention
suggestions for change. human inhabiting space and changing space, ergonomically, comfortability, uncomfortability, spacial awareness
test. studio den was rather inviting to escape the hum drum...
hypothesis. have the space inhabited and once created (by me), leave for change by the inhabitant(s)
♥
why. can tell that they havent been inhabited or are unhabitable for humans. insect & rat habitat. disconnection and isolation from den was not the intention
suggestions for change. human inhabiting space and changing space, ergonomically, comfortability, uncomfortability, spacial awareness
test. studio den was rather inviting to escape the hum drum...
hypothesis. have the space inhabited and once created (by me), leave for change by the inhabitant(s)
♥
Black Flag game
I am a participant
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8436101691&ref=ts
finding this very motivational even though it borders on AP (advanced procrastination)... yes another essay to write, "outline your personal philosophy that underpins your work that takes into account current relevant art debates" blah blah BLACK FLAG BLACK FLAG
BLACK FLAG !
....(later in the day...________
I really wanted to flag the back of a couple of community police officers.. hearing mothers voice in my head, "amy..im worried youre getting too passionate in the subversive again.."
this is not my art as this wasnt the initial intention or my idea. Intention was predetermined by the creator of the game, my national diploma lecturer Alex Pearl. Is this Alex's art or is it art..from what I know, I'd assume that this is a free project that belongs to nobody/everyone.. or better still, has abandoned notions of materialistic authorship whilst parodying ownership... ? ... . . . . . . . ? . . .
This mini project has given me some freedom and perspective to reflect on my (art) values and 'personal philosophy' and its also given me the most motivation i've had in a while.
click________
.
.
p.p.s. very aware of the overuse of brackets ()
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8436101691&ref=ts
finding this very motivational even though it borders on AP (advanced procrastination)... yes another essay to write, "outline your personal philosophy that underpins your work that takes into account current relevant art debates" blah blah BLACK FLAG BLACK FLAG
BLACK FLAG !
....(later in the day...________
I really wanted to flag the back of a couple of community police officers.. hearing mothers voice in my head, "amy..im worried youre getting too passionate in the subversive again.."
this is not my art as this wasnt the initial intention or my idea. Intention was predetermined by the creator of the game, my national diploma lecturer Alex Pearl. Is this Alex's art or is it art..from what I know, I'd assume that this is a free project that belongs to nobody/everyone.. or better still, has abandoned notions of materialistic authorship whilst parodying ownership... ? ... . . . . . . . ? . . .
This mini project has given me some freedom and perspective to reflect on my (art) values and 'personal philosophy' and its also given me the most motivation i've had in a while.
click________
.
.
p.p.s. very aware of the overuse of brackets ()
20090415
20090414
20090406
searching for something new? or no(t)(w) ?
i came across this colchester lecturers work... clair isles, her photog and inst is kinda similar to what im doing/have just done. seeing documentation of her work made me feel odd. i like it. the association and relating yet total distance and alienation from her images, theres an aesthetic thats really similar but somethings not similar..if only i knew what.
i like the contradictions/juxtaposition it makes me feel and dont think i need to know what
(2 weeks later..now.i.know... its uninhabited somewhat ghostly.. still&dead like my dens 2&3..
plan..
go back to den 2 site and attempt to make habitable
-risks> rats, mice, infectious diseases, broken glass, poaching land, littering private land, nettle stings, massive mutated spiders and slugs
-hypothesis> do it anyway.)
i like the contradictions/juxtaposition it makes me feel and dont think i need to know what
(2 weeks later..now.i.know... its uninhabited somewhat ghostly.. still&dead like my dens 2&3..
plan..
go back to den 2 site and attempt to make habitable
-risks> rats, mice, infectious diseases, broken glass, poaching land, littering private land, nettle stings, massive mutated spiders and slugs
-hypothesis> do it anyway.)
20090405
Constructing and deconstructing. Fake Den 2
the sign, signifier, signified
making and unmaking
putting on and taking off
putting on
backwards
taking off
putting on. 100 photos of putting on...10 second animation.. tripod/still camera position blutakc and tape in a tree!!!!!
making 100 changes.. outside natural light will change, things i cant alter, things that happen
some might include manipulating the space only a minute fraction of the 10 seconds..might just be weather change and putting a bit of fabric up
10 seconds of PUTTING-ON stop animation
followed by the same again but backwards..backwards ..ongoing video evolving the documenting manipulating the documenting (film deescalates the importance of photograph as object, putting more emphasis on the action..draw the line here or continue to film timelapse of what happens to den after its creation
-problems> deviating from intention into too much focus on documentation
-solution> ask others to be involved
-hypothesis> the documenting is tertiary to the work and of little proportional importance. just take a photo)
questions from a viewer.>did the installation/den/space get taken down or did it stay? were the photos documenting putting it up or taking it down???
I WALKED 10 MINUTES TO THE SITE TODAY I WALKED BACKWARDS WITH THE OCCASIONAL GLANCE BEHIND WALKING BACKWARDS seeing youre footsteps and un-footprints after youve made them. something about cycles and change and seasons and not knowing..
making and unmaking
putting on and taking off
putting on
backwards
taking off
putting on. 100 photos of putting on...10 second animation.. tripod/still camera position blutakc and tape in a tree!!!!!
making 100 changes.. outside natural light will change, things i cant alter, things that happen
some might include manipulating the space only a minute fraction of the 10 seconds..might just be weather change and putting a bit of fabric up
10 seconds of PUTTING-ON stop animation
followed by the same again but backwards..backwards ..ongoing video evolving the documenting manipulating the documenting (film deescalates the importance of photograph as object, putting more emphasis on the action..draw the line here or continue to film timelapse of what happens to den after its creation
-problems> deviating from intention into too much focus on documentation
-solution> ask others to be involved
-hypothesis> the documenting is tertiary to the work and of little proportional importance. just take a photo)
questions from a viewer.>did the installation/den/space get taken down or did it stay? were the photos documenting putting it up or taking it down???
I WALKED 10 MINUTES TO THE SITE TODAY I WALKED BACKWARDS WITH THE OCCASIONAL GLANCE BEHIND WALKING BACKWARDS seeing youre footsteps and un-footprints after youve made them. something about cycles and change and seasons and not knowing..
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