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.Second Class...

"let's plan our books"

First Artist:

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.First Class…

"It will be all about portals and how we find them."

First Artist:

The first artist is called Fiona Banner, we will shortly explore how she used full stops as matter to create Art. She interpreted the full stops as more than just simple round marks, giving them life and meaning by viewing it from different perspectives and dimensions.

Starting Points

Can you open a text document on your computer (could be Word, Pages, TextEdit or InDesign)

Type in a full stop .

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Using the font selector choose a font for the full stop.

Make a note of the name of the font beside the full stop

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Change the size of the full stop to 100pt or as large as you can!

Try changing the font. Each typeface has a different shape full stop.

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Make a quick sketch of the shape of your full stop.

Now try to sketch it as a 3 dimensional object.

After you have finished drawing find out some more about the font that you have chosen.

Is it a serif or san-serf typeface? Who designed it? When and what for?

Artist Research: Fiona Banner Full Stops

Artist Book http://www.fionabanner.com/vanitypress/periodbook2019/index.htm

Inflatable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgbf8a1XaLU

Scultpure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0mt_0xPeoE

Activism https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/artist-fiona-banner-why-i-delivered-a-1-25-

tonne-boulder-sculpture-to-the-government/

Reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-3yqy-IYnU

My first attempt:

ps: It is interesting to see how full stops can have many shapes depending of its fonts.

SECOND ARTIST:

Daniel Spoerri (born1930) is a Swiss artist and writer born in Romania. Spoerri is best known for his “snare-pictures,” a type of assemblage or object art, in which he captures a group of objects, such as the remains of meals eaten by individuals, including the plates, silverware and glasses, all of which are fixed to the table or board, which is then dis-played on a wall. He also is widely acclaimed for his book, Topographie Anécdotée* du Hasard (An Anecdoted Topography of Chance), a literary analog to his snare-pic- tures, in which he mapped all the objects located on his table at a particular moment, describing each with his personal recollections evoked by the object.

In 1961 artist Daniel Spoerri wrote an artists book called ‘An Anecdoted Topography of Chance.’ He mapped the objets lying at random on the table of his room, adding a rigorously scientific description of each.

He wrote it when he was living at the Hotel Carcassone in Paris, in room number 13 on the fifth floor. To the right of the entrance door was a table which his wife Vera had paint- ed blue. Spoerri drew on a ‘map” the overlapping outlines of all the 80 objects that were lying on the table on 17 October 1961 at exactly 3:47 p.m. Each object was assigned a number and Spoerri wrote a brief description of each object and the memories or associ- ations it evoked. The descriptions cross referenced other objects on the table which were related. The Topographie Anécdotée* du Hasard was printed as a small pamphlet of 53 pages plus a fold out map and index and was distributed as an advertisement for the exhibition.

Spoerri is also closely associated with the Fluxus art movement, a movement formed in the early 1960s, “characterized by a strongly Dadaist attitude, [whose] participants were a divergent group of individualists whose most common theme was their delight in spontaneity and humor.”

We will use Spoerri’s book as a starting point to reimagine the study applied to our studio desks. This is an exercise in object documentation, storytelling and desktop publishing.

PORTAL THE PLAN

Choose 3 items from a portal in your room (a bag, a pocket, a draw, the fridge, a cupboard, etc) and place them on the table in front of you. Draw a map or birds eye view of the objects on an A4 or A3 piece of paper. Number the objects and make a list with the numbers and names of the objects.

Fold the paper into quarters and turn it over. Start exercise 1 in quarter 1

Exercise 1. Written description . Select object 1. Study it closely. Write a detailed description of the object, You could write about what it looks like, its function, its history or its relationship to you. Ask a question about it. Write small and fill up a quarter of the page.

Exercise 2: Drawing

Select object 2. Draw a still life of the object and title the drawing - but not with the name as the object.

Exercise 3 Instruction

Select object 3. In under 140 characters write an instruction that someone could do do with this object.

Exercise 4. Photograph the portal

Select object 4. Photograph the portal where the objects came from. Can you use this image as a starting point to design a cover for the publication?

You now have a page plan for your poster/leaflets publication

DESIGN

Create a new version of your sheet of paper using a desk top publishing programme; Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator or if you prefer to work without a computer redraw or make a collage.Work with the different elements to create a visually interesting poster, folded sheet or small booklet.

Result:

"I Tried to recreate it on my sketchbook, in a way that I could keep it tidy and interesting."