Monday, September 29, 2014
Response to Ursula von Rydingsvard: "Ona"
The bronze sculpture "Ona" sits outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. "Ona" in Polish refers to a female. Von Rydingsvard says that she feels a female energy from the sculpture--thus the name. Von Rydingsvard uses a Patina process to fuse colors into the bronze to juxtapose the rusting metal of the huge arena. The sculpture has a subtle V shape, which is traditionally a symbol of feminism--a rough abstraction of the shape of the birth canal. Von Rydingsvard has worked in Brooklyn for more than 37 years and is very happy to have one of her sculptures on display there.
Response to Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: "Oppenheimer"
In "Oppenheimer" Manglano-Ovalle presents a figure, representing Oppenheimer, standing in a jungle setting. The camera circles the figure, who does not move. Manglano-Ovalle says that his intent is to show Oppenheimer living just in one moment, but by looping the film, the viewer is reliving one moment.
Response to Mark Dion, ART21 segments
Mark Dion, in his ART21 interview, discusses his interest in the "ecologies" of the places where he creates. Dion wants to understand the relationships between people and people, people and the environment, and between different forces within the environment.
Dion describes himself as an amateur archeologist and biologist, "shadowing their methodology."
In the ART21 short "Herbarium Perrine," Dion displays a collection of marine algae that has been pressed into paper. Dion says that he seaweed has a natural adhesiveness and once the specimen is stuck onto paper, it mimics a drawing.
Dion describes himself as an amateur archeologist and biologist, "shadowing their methodology."
In the ART21 short "Herbarium Perrine," Dion displays a collection of marine algae that has been pressed into paper. Dion says that he seaweed has a natural adhesiveness and once the specimen is stuck onto paper, it mimics a drawing.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Friday, September 19, 2014
Monday, September 15, 2014
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Discussion of Project: Time
"What are ten movies that used exceptional cinematography (visual tools) to tell the story?"
- Jacobs Ladder
- A Clockwork Orange
- Saving Private Ryan
- Lord of the Rings/Hobbit movies
- A Bridge Too Far
- Pulp Fiction/Kill Bill 1 and 2
- War of the Worlds
- Alien
- Apocalypse Now
- Fight Club/ American History X
This is not a list of my favorite movies, although many of them would make the list. This list consist of movies that use time to tell or enhance the story. An honorable mention would have to go to "The Godfather: Part II."
Three concepts for the project time:
1. Use a still life to show transformation, by adding and changing the items in the still life. My first thought would be a word as the primary visual tool and transform the word by building additional visual elements into the still life.
2. A recording of a trip or movement from one place to another. Interjected into the recorded trip are mini videos that represent thoughts or memories.
3. Three distinctly different videos, overlapping in the same picture frame, running at different speeds/times. For example, the first might show one minute of time in one minute, the second one day in a minute, the third a week in a minute.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Response to Sally Mann segment on ART21
Sally Mann: Place
Sally Mann is a Virginia based artist. She uses black and white dark room techniques to create prints which are abstract. She values "ambiguity" in her work. She uses an ancient light box to photograph simple objects to create visual expression. The process she uses wet plate collodian. The shutter on the camera is her hand.
Her early photographs replicated 18th century aescetics. The models were her children and were portrayed nude.
The nudity of the children makes me very uncomfortable. Laws and the old school morés molded my ideas about morality and thus my attitudes about nude photographs of children.
I am fascinated by the process that Mann uses, especially the ancient, wet plate camera that she uses.
Sally Mann is a Virginia based artist. She uses black and white dark room techniques to create prints which are abstract. She values "ambiguity" in her work. She uses an ancient light box to photograph simple objects to create visual expression. The process she uses wet plate collodian. The shutter on the camera is her hand.
Her early photographs replicated 18th century aescetics. The models were her children and were portrayed nude.
The nudity of the children makes me very uncomfortable. Laws and the old school morés molded my ideas about morality and thus my attitudes about nude photographs of children.
I am fascinated by the process that Mann uses, especially the ancient, wet plate camera that she uses.
Response to Kara Walker segment on ART21
Kara Walker: Starting Out
Walker produces collage which exists directly on the gallery wall or is free standing. Most of the images are silhouettes of black people in slavery or popular culture that is built on stereotype and racism.
Walker also uses sculpture, printmaking, painting and installation.
Some of Walker's work is very violent. Showing slaves disemboweling their captors. I understand that slave owners perpetuated violence upon slaves and that Kara Walker's art expresses the attitudes of the oppressed. Maybe Kara Walker wants me to be uncomfortable looking at images of slaves. If that is her goal, she is successful.
Walker produces collage which exists directly on the gallery wall or is free standing. Most of the images are silhouettes of black people in slavery or popular culture that is built on stereotype and racism.
Walker also uses sculpture, printmaking, painting and installation.
Some of Walker's work is very violent. Showing slaves disemboweling their captors. I understand that slave owners perpetuated violence upon slaves and that Kara Walker's art expresses the attitudes of the oppressed. Maybe Kara Walker wants me to be uncomfortable looking at images of slaves. If that is her goal, she is successful.
Response to Puryear segment on ART21
Print Making
Martin Puryear started in Stockholm with print making. He worked in sculpture for some time before returning to printmaking. Currently he creates prints of his sculptures.
Print making to me is a very process oriented art--very similar to sculpture. Puryear mentions potentially using printmaking to expose a multiple reality for a single object. I understand what he means as print making is the 2d representation of something in 3d or in the imagination.
Martin Puryear started in Stockholm with print making. He worked in sculpture for some time before returning to printmaking. Currently he creates prints of his sculptures.
Print making to me is a very process oriented art--very similar to sculpture. Puryear mentions potentially using printmaking to expose a multiple reality for a single object. I understand what he means as print making is the 2d representation of something in 3d or in the imagination.
Friday, September 5, 2014
Instagram's new Hyperlapse app: share your timelapse videos
Instagram's new Hyperlapse app: share your timelapse videos
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/05/instagrams-hyperlapse-app-timelapse-videos
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/05/instagrams-hyperlapse-app-timelapse-videos
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Response to my Teammates Projects
Haley: Witches Broom
This concept, of replicating the childhood game of creating different woven designs with string, was a good idea. I don't remember this idea in the three original draft sketches, so I assume that it was derived after our team critique.
I think this concept would benefit greatly from a much larger scale. Having ten people perform the patterns in a large field or yard and photographing the performance from above would be quite interesting.
Jeff: Connecting Self Portraits
I found the concept of having the class draw themselves and then connect the drawings, very intriquing. I think that this concept could be developed to a greater degree, and with additional materials and time, the result would be remarkable.
The project was definitely constrained by the amount of time allowed for the performance. I believe that the concept would benefit from better materials also---HOWEVER: Given the preparation time, the performance time, and cost constraints this was a great conceptual project.
Drew: Collaborating Lego Building
The concept of building something as a group with each individual creating a component without input from the other team members, is an old concept. A similar project was executed by the Abstract Expressionists, with each member sketching on a folded piece of paper and the sum of the sketches was presented as a single work.
I think that the collaborative building and the legos were both a little unimaginative. I think the concept overall could have been more original. The outcome of the project was certainly constrained by size and scale.
My Project Response
Final Observations: Washing Trophies and Trophy Installation
Overall I was happy with the audience reaction to the performance and installation. I enjoyed performing and creating the installation. Several of the viewer reactions made me laugh. The theme seemed to be personal for each viewer. For example, my friend Erica stated the following: "You're really marrying the concepts of personal success and successful marketing in our culture....blah blah." The secondary response that I felt from the project was this:
At one time, each of those trophies represented a milestone, an accomplishment, usually with some significant emotional attachment. Now the trophies are discarded pieces of a life forgotten.
Monday, September 1, 2014
Play: a Performance and Installation
Project 1: Play
Intent
I am creating this performance and installation to stimulate the viewer to remember his or her own experience playing sports or games in the past. I try with all my art to never place my interpretation of the art in the viewer's thoughts, other than with the content of the work. I do not title, or suggest to the viewer how he or she should perceive what I do or what I create. The question: "What is it?" is always answered with: "What is it to you? How does it make you feel? What do you think about when you see this?"
The media for this project is performance art: Washing Trophies, and found objects: Trophy Installation. The Washing Trophies was performed in the outside seating area of a Starbucks coffee shop, on Labor Day. This location provided a steady stream of traffic for an audience. The holiday was key to having a larger audience during the afternoon. The Trophy Installation portion of the project was arranged on a small table outside the Starbucks, with the trophies arranged in the sun so that they would sparkle and glisten.
Research
I decided on the performance and installation of the trophies, after presenting my ideas to my peer group in Conceptual Practices class. My three ideas included a short film installation where the viewer observed the film through an old window, a video of a gathering of musicians to play music, and the trophy installation in a slightly different form. I thought the idea of viewing a short video through the old window was the best idea with the most potential. During our peer review, none of my peers in the group chose the project that I liked best. Two of my three group members thought the trophy idea was the best, and the third member liked the idea also, but thought the music idea was best.
After peer review, I had to rethink my approach to this project. I decided to go with the trophy idea and try to develop the idea. I am familiar with Allan Kapro's work from the sixties and seventies--specifically Yard (1961). Kapro took Pollack's "process is the art" to a new level, in which the "process is the performance" with no consumable art piece. Kapro would evolve his works into "Happenings" during which, activities and components would appear and disappear and the viewer would exist within the installation.(Emerling)
The installation that I planned, was to be located in a cobblestone median at one of Hickory's busiest intersections. Literally thousands of people would drive past the installation and potentially see the trophies at this location. Less than twenty four hours before I planned to install the trophies, a teenager wrecked his car approximately a mile from the intersection, killing his seventeen year old passenger.
Satellite view of originally planned installation location.
I reconsidered the location of the trophies and decided not to install in the median for several reasons:
Intent
I am creating this performance and installation to stimulate the viewer to remember his or her own experience playing sports or games in the past. I try with all my art to never place my interpretation of the art in the viewer's thoughts, other than with the content of the work. I do not title, or suggest to the viewer how he or she should perceive what I do or what I create. The question: "What is it?" is always answered with: "What is it to you? How does it make you feel? What do you think about when you see this?"
The media for this project is performance art: Washing Trophies, and found objects: Trophy Installation. The Washing Trophies was performed in the outside seating area of a Starbucks coffee shop, on Labor Day. This location provided a steady stream of traffic for an audience. The holiday was key to having a larger audience during the afternoon. The Trophy Installation portion of the project was arranged on a small table outside the Starbucks, with the trophies arranged in the sun so that they would sparkle and glisten.
Research
I decided on the performance and installation of the trophies, after presenting my ideas to my peer group in Conceptual Practices class. My three ideas included a short film installation where the viewer observed the film through an old window, a video of a gathering of musicians to play music, and the trophy installation in a slightly different form. I thought the idea of viewing a short video through the old window was the best idea with the most potential. During our peer review, none of my peers in the group chose the project that I liked best. Two of my three group members thought the trophy idea was the best, and the third member liked the idea also, but thought the music idea was best.
After peer review, I had to rethink my approach to this project. I decided to go with the trophy idea and try to develop the idea. I am familiar with Allan Kapro's work from the sixties and seventies--specifically Yard (1961). Kapro took Pollack's "process is the art" to a new level, in which the "process is the performance" with no consumable art piece. Kapro would evolve his works into "Happenings" during which, activities and components would appear and disappear and the viewer would exist within the installation.(Emerling)
The installation that I planned, was to be located in a cobblestone median at one of Hickory's busiest intersections. Literally thousands of people would drive past the installation and potentially see the trophies at this location. Less than twenty four hours before I planned to install the trophies, a teenager wrecked his car approximately a mile from the intersection, killing his seventeen year old passenger.
Satellite view of originally planned installation location.
I reconsidered the location of the trophies and decided not to install in the median for several reasons:
- The installation would be centered between two of the busiest roads in Hickory and potentially unsafe
- I would have no interaction with my audience
- The drivers and passengers would have only brief view of the trophies
- The Hickory police could potentially be a problem at the busy intersection (HPD makes Ferguson MO PD look like Amnesty International)
I chose Starbucks because:
- The site provided a steady flow of foot traffic
- The audience could walk up to the installation and touch it and interact
- I could interact with the audience while they viewed the trophies
- The managers at this particular Starbucks are pretty laid back and probably would not care
- I would not be trespassing on city or state property
Having decided on Starbucks, I began a rough plan for the installation. It was at this point that I decided to add the performance aspect of the project. It occurred to me that unpacking and cleaning the trophies could be as visually interesting as the finished presentation itself. I packed cleaning supplies and the trophies into the trunk of my car and went to Starbucks.
The Performance: Washing Trophies
I took the trophies from the trunk of my car in a box that prevented anyone from seeing the contents. I sat at one of the outside tables and positioned my iPad as a "hidden camera" to record video of the performance.
The performance was approximately forty minutes. During the performance, only one of the viewers spoke to me. Most of the viewers paused, or continued walking but did a "double take" to see exactly what I was doing.
The Installation: Trophy Installation
The Trophy Installation was completed within just a few minutes. All of the trophies, now clean, were arranged on a small round "patio" table in the bright sunlight. The table was in the direct line-of-site of every car that drove through the drive-thru, and was visible immediately in front of customers as they left the store and as they approached the store.
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