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Kentridge on Tearing

William Kentridge is a South American artist known to produce work that varies between film, drawing, theatre and opera. With a primary focus on drawing. His work sometimes combined elements of all these practices and therefore he produces installations with multi aspects. Some of his works include “The Nose” (2007), “William Kentridge, Il cavaliere di Toledo” (2012), and a portfolio of prints called “Ubu Tells the Truth”.

One of Kentridge’s pieces called “The Nose” (2007), Kentridge explores concepts incorporated into an opera which a short story is based off of. For this piece, Kentridge has created both a lecture and a performance as well as an open-ended installation that interacts with the audience. The whole project introduces the audience to story of a guy who is trying to find his nose and ends with the nose back on the guy’s face. 

It was very interesting to see Kentridge’s projects so heavily based on telling stories. Moreover, it really draws me in that Kentridge is able to create an “environment” for for his audiences in order to further bring them into the story. Kentridge’s work made me understand the essence of interacting with more than one of the five senses when showcasing art. In Kentridge’s case, he showcased his art by interacting with the audience’s hearing and visual appeal. Moreover, his interactive installation creates an environment for the audience which draws them in and immerses them with an experience. I feel that the ability to create such artwork is definitely very valuable as an artist. 

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Website created by artist collab: Jordi.Org 

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Artist Presentation Notes: Jodi.Org

- collective of two internet artists: Joan Heemskerk & Dirk Paesmans

- Joan Heemskerk is from the Netherlands and Dirk Paesmans is from Belgium 

- background in photography & video art

- most well-known work: website 

- known for their digital works

- every time a viewer logs into their website, a different design/ pattern appears

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“The Cremaster Cycle” (1994-2002) by Matthew Barney

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Artist Presentation Notes: Matthew Barney

- born in 1967 in San Fransisco

- football player in high school and later recruited to Yale University

- later discovered a passion for art

- creates art based on movements, gestures, performance art

Known work: “Drawing Restraint” (1987-present)

https://youtu.be/83WTxmkye04

“The Cremaster Cycle” (1994-2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xWtS9HsP4U

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Artist Presentation Notes: Tamiko Thiel

2- father: German, mother: Japanese, she is an U.S citizen herself

- B.S from Stanford University- Engineering/ Product Design

- M.S from MIT in Mechanical Engineering

- later on a degree in MFA from Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste (Academy of Fine Arts)

- work explores the interplay of place, space, the body and cultural identity

- recent works explore virtual reality and audience interactions in site specific areas 

Known works: “Connection Machine” (1986-1987)

“ARt Critic Face Matrix” (2010-2011)

“Shades of Absence: Public Voids” (2011)

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Artist Presentation Notes: Fujiko Nakaya

- born in 1933 in Sapporo, Japan

- high school education in Tokyo, went to Northwestern University 

- known for infusing architectural spaces with fog and creating speficifc experience/ environment for audiences 

Known works: “Veil” (2014)

“Cloud Parking” (2011)

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Video of “The Ways of Folding Space & Flying” (2015)

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Artist Presentation Notes: Moon Kyungwon

- Seoul-based artist 

- received MFA from CalArts 

- known for her video pieces that explore new ideals of space 

- most famous collab: with artist- Jeon Joonho

Known work: “The Ways of Folding Space and Flying” (2015)

https://vernissage.tv/2015/07/17/moon-kyungwon-jeon-joonho-korean-pavilion-venice-art-biennale-2015/

“Freedom Village Arena, single-channel video” (2017)

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Artist Presentation Notes: Xu Bing

- Chinese artist

- born in Chongqing, China 

- 1975- was relocated to the Chinese countryside for two years as part of Mao Zedong’s “re-education” policy

- utilizes a lot of play with characters, languages and words, specifically focusing on the Chinese language 

- known for print pieces and installations 

Notable work: “Book from the Sky” (1987-1991)

Square Word Calligraphy (1994-1996)

“Book From the Groun” (2003)

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Ni’Ja Whitson CCA Performance

“A Meditation on Tongues” was a performance created that was an with adaptation of “Tongues Untied” (1989) by Marlon T. Riggs’. The intention of this performance piece was to represent gender non conformity, bodies and dialogues of race as well as racism and homophobia. It centres around the concept of  lesbian storytelling around queerness and explores what does re-embodying masculinity looks like. 

The combination of movement and music in this piece was really able to present emotion and exploration on the topic of homophobia. The music itself was interesting in a way that it was a mixture of modern pop music as well as almost as if tribal music. It is unclear how the sounds have been produced and at times the audience is able to hear a few verses of words, but other time it seems to either be mumbling of sounds or just scattered sounds produced by instruments. When the music pauses at the time, then we are focused on the silence of the room and focused on sounds of footsteps, breathing or screams produced live by the actor. The switch between sounds played by the speaker and sounds produced live by the performer was definitely an interesting shift. It intersects between reality and virtual sounds and therefore fully captures the audience’s attention as we listen carefully to both sounds of reality and virtuality. 

The movement by the actors are very much powerful and exerts emotion through every move. It interacts sometimes with the sounds played in the background but other time with the emotion of the viewers and the actors. Sometimes there is rhythm in the actors movements, other times there is power and other times there is a certain softness to it. The lighting during the performance was able able to highlight the actor’s movements by focusing directly on them to create a dramatic effect. Moreover, the projections towards the end then creates an interesting shift towards a virtual world, the audience is then brought into a virtual video projected in darkness. 

Overall, the performance was interesting to me, but I feel as if it was a bit hard for me to comprehend without deeper research into the meaning of the piece. However, I feel that the play between reality and virtual reality was interesting in a way that created mixed sensations for the audience. It would shift from loud music to reality noises of breathing or from live performances to virtual projections. The sudden shift in environment definitely brought out a dramatic element to the performance, which was why it was a huge success. 

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The animation part to my project, which doesn’t start till a little later because it corresponds with the video in a way that it is played at the same time. 

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In the end I decided I was going to put my project on two screens instead of three. This is the video part to my project. 

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Final Project Process

First step was to create the actual animation part of the sock walking towards the laundry room. It took me a total of around 500 photos to complete the animation. 

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Final Project Storyboarding

 I decided on using three different screens and this is what is to be displayed on each screen. 

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Final Idea

For my final project, I wanted to create a mixed animation and video of everyday objects. I want to be able to project it on more than one screen in order to show the interaction with space