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Audio for hand in. The same as crit week but I was able to put it on a loop with better speakers. I will develop this more next semester.

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Photos from me figuring out my install.

I decided against the furniture because I just wasn’t feeling it. The plinths look way better and get across this eerie feeling more. I liked the dark grey mat with the red chair but the table was too big and the composition wasnt workong

the carpet was a good space filler (salmon one great colour) but it just confused the reading for me

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These almond shaped eyes look alot nicer but because of the slant/uneven-ness of the face they dont sit well and look weird.. might just have to be no eyes!

Glasses are super cool but look a little bit like goggles

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Working through presentation qualms

the purpose of my presentation is to displace my objects and transform the white cube environment.

The coloured, glossed plinths are doing the job in the way that they transform the functionality from one of an invisible height, to apart of the artwork. The gloss can be seen as a way to conform to the standards of white cube, almost sugar coating my conventional, accessible materials. I also have been researching the human as machine- the mechanising body parts of the gymnast collide with the structure (plinth) and with the paired colours (sculpture to plinth) they almost become one, transforming the body into an inamate object.

However, I want to try something new and challenge the contexts in a different way, increasing quantities (more plinths, more sculptures) isn’t going to do much more for the cause.

The domestic objects within the space bring a new informal context and ‘feeling’ to the gallery context. The viewer feels more welcome and can immerse themselves in the experience of viewing my artwork, more so than the rigid formalities of normal plinths, or my coloured plinths even?

The table i have got heightens this as its messy, found and informal. The legs colour pairs with my red sculpture. I do not like the paint on top of it though- its too ‘I found this at art school’, less intentional, and i dont really like the aestherics of it. Thats why i thought it would be nice to cover it in some material, like a table cloth.

The materials are often distracting, and 2 out of four that I have trialed so far, have been too picnicy. I really enjoy the grey velvet on the table, especially the mis-cut section on it- I found it like this but think it may be a happy accident? I’m not sure if people will read into too much or just enjoy it for its aesthetics.. What does it mean to section out pieces? I don’t know. If this isnt a problem, then I think that the materials could bring other things to the table (haha). The same as glossing and painting the plinths it is transforming the object.. although is the object transformed enough by bringing it into a different context? Its a matter of if I can accept the conditions of the table I currently have, or find another one

I need to make sure that the material and presentation method doesnt distract from my sculptures

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Very scary, failed eye test!!!! hmmm maybe glasses 

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I went to the dump shop and these are some of the bad furniture pieces I found. 50% off chairs at the moment!

None of them really seem like thy will go with the colours of my sculptures though, apart from that faded red, so pink, victorian era looking number?? 

p.s. that ply wood shelf is so much more shit in person YAS!

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Notes on Performance Theory: Revised and Expanded Edition by Richard Schechner. 

“performance is an inclusive term. Theatre is only one node on a continuum that reaches from the ritualisation of animals (including humans) through performances in everyday life”

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Body Art: Performing the Subject by Amelia Jones

it opens up subjectivity as performative, contingent, and always particularized rather than universal, implicating the interpreter (with all of her invested biases, and desires) within the meanings and cultural values ascribed to the work of art

The viewers relationship is replot

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Tactics of interruption: provoking participation in performance art. Thesis by Lee Campbell

Schadenfreude- the pleasure derived by someone else’s misfortune

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Playing with furniture as an installation strategy. These are photos of my tests...

thinking about bad furniture and how that would feel in gallery

domestic elements within gallery environment

bad table runner, unhealthy pants as domestic element

covering up structures like Jessica Stockholder.. not sure why I was inclined to do this? but I enjoy playing with the material and this kind of patterned, fun element

I love the draping, and the folds of the material- elegant

figures on the ground seem more intentional- like they have landed where gravity intended to take them but also looks like they are frolicking around at a picnic with the rug. I like the height on the other ones

I like where you can see the material pulling from the weight of the sculpture

Love using the table, especially with the missing section of material, does that make it more about space as void? Materiality? and confuse the reading? or is it obviously just shit materials vs pristine gloss?

Shitty found art table.. covered in duraceal! 

What do I want my figure to be communicating? 

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The Movement of Vulnerability

Notes about the fall in contempoary sculptre including photo journalism of 9/11 and works like ‘unidentified women’ by Sarah Charlesworth, ‘suicide’ by Andy Warhol, Yves Kein ‘leap into the void’ etc

critical towards the nature of humans, as people who take photos or make artisitic interpretations of suffering. Argues that maybe this artistic representation clouds the fallers real life suffering

OR that we as artists struggle to translate the degree of suffering in artistic ways

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Joans Burgert

-mischievous, creepy little creatures from some sort of utopian world.

-plays with scale

-sculpture with elongated arms

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REFERENCING BACK TO MY IPO

Not much has changed except I am not using, clay and I have defined by ideas more. My IPO would look completely different now, if I were to write it again, but I think my core kind of ‘values’ and ideas are already pointed out in the previous document. I do not see any point in me reconsidering the IPO as I feel I can clearly articulate my ideas and thought process on this blog and within my other courses- art in context and Fine Arts Research Seminar

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THIS IS AMAZING!!!! great audio pairing! inspo for next semester

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playing with what colours go together and what it looks like with purple on purple/ pink on pink etc- interesting relationship- multiplicitous, intersubjective cyborgs