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Week 2

taking the work of Michael Craig-Martin who is known for his conceptual artworks spanning line drawings, paintings, and sculptures that challenge viewers’ perception of everyday objects. His large-scale installations portray safety pins, headphones as well as corkscrews in bright colours. All pieces were crafted using powder-coated steel. probing the relationship between objects and images, perception and reality, harnessing the unique human capacity to conjure ideas through symbols and signs.

utilising the symbolism of the pen as knowledge, I warped his wire frame just enough that the image can be seen but is still drastically altered to represent the corrupt learning system in this current age and its attack on the arts. that, the university’s knowledge of whats truely right is distorted.

the scale and its singularity are kept the same as I liked the minimalistic way he created these silhouette frames.

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Carsten Höller – Upside Down Mushroom Room (2000)

Belgium-born Biologist and artist, Carsten Holler is inspired by research experiments and the world around him. His works reflect social spaces like amusement parks, the zoo or a playground but he puts an expected twist onto each of them. Filling rooms with gigantic mushrooms which was first shown at Fondazione Prada in Milan. 

Viewers got to feel like Alice in Alice in Wonderland as they walked through a side room filled with huge fungi suspended from the ceiling, lights protruding from the floor to make to viewer feel as if they are upside down with implications of psychedelics and the scale used within the popular story/film Alice in Wonderland. His typical mushrooms used the large red-and-white agaric fungus which is highly poisonous.

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Numen/For Use - Tape Melbourne (2011)

The Croatian/Austrian Design Collaborative Numen/For Use blends architecture and public installation art. The sculpture-like pieces are large in scale and take over whole public spaces while also reinventing them, changing the way in which they can be occupied and changing the experience of the interactions between participants. Tape takes a material that is ephemeral and non-architectural and turns it into one that has architectural capacity, appearing as an organism that has affixed itself to the architecture. 

The work was specially commissioned by Melbourne's main civic centre and cultural district Federation Square as a part of their Creative Program focussing on experimental large-scale public art and its social and communal relevance. The structure had to be constructed with the help of special platforms as it projects from the external walls of the Fed Square's SBS building at the height of 6 meters above ground. Tape Melbourne is the first Tape Installation to be executed outside Europe and below the equator.

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Week 1 - Line and Direction (workshop task)

Combining both linear materials (wire and rope) I wrapped the rope around the wire to give it an unusual static form. the weave of the rope contrasts against the way its wrapped around the wire and then again in the coil form it was finally twisted into. The piece is reminiscent of modern furniture and the way pasta is formed into various shapes. if i were to expand on the piece, it would be to create it on a larger scale or to make more coils to make the form bigger than the small pile it is now. Making the work bigger would make it more monstrous and impactful as bigger pieces are usually taken more seriously when it comes to spatial art.