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Tehching Hsieh is a really interesting artist whose exploration of time is very relevant to our concept. Taking pictures every hour in the same apartment for a year, Tehching Hsieh explores how the human can recognise time outside the significant moments. The relevant now compared to irrelevant now.

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“The Way Things Go” by Fischly and Weiss.

The video of the a chain of reactions - there may be a link with this to the Western concept of time. Chains of reaction…

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Brainstorming in WEEK10 - SCRAPPED IDEA

TWELVE INTERVIEWS

Moana - 75 Year Old Woman (Australian), , 42 Year Old Man (Greek), 22 Year Old Man (Canadian)

Maya - 11 Year Old Girl (Indian), 19 Year Old Man (Indian/Kenyan)

Madie - 29 Year Old Man (Australian), 19 year Old Woman (Korean)

Christine - 50 Year Old Woman (Chinese), 21 Year Old Woman (Indian)

Video each person with focus on one feature. E.g. eye, mouth, ear, nose, hands, etc.

Interview

What’s your name?

When were you born?

Where were you born?

(if born somewhere else) When did you move to Australia?

Do you have religion? What religion? Why?

Did you vote YES/NO? Why?

Describe the society you grew up in?

Describe our society now?

What’s your opinion of it?

If you had to change one thing about the world, what would it be?

What does the word ‘now’ mean to you?

Are you proud of where humans are NOW?

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Idea/ Brainstorming

The group was really interested in the idea of how we recognise the insignificant but after in depth research about time we were excited to find articles and theories discussing the fact that time is considered a social construct and how many different cultures perceive time differently. 

Looking into the main three perceptions of time in the modern world - linear, cyclic and multi-active, we thought of ways to visualise these attitudes towards time. 

Looking into the works of ‘Passing Time’ by Hossein Valameneish and ‘One Year Performance’ by Teaching Hsieh, we were interested in practising a couple of different experiments. These experiments will distinguish how we perceive time when we are unaware of it. Conditioned within the linear-perspective of time, we also attempted to adjust or alter our minds to other cultural perceptions through these experiments. 

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Experiment 3 

Really inspired by the aesthetics of Valameneish’s work, we videoed each hand gesture with a dark background and a strong focus on the hands. 

We found the videos were interesting however did not exactly express our ideas of cyclic, linear and multi-active very clearly which was a strong idea that we wanted to push through our works. 

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FINAL PRODUCT: Multi-Active

With our concern for not having a clarity in our concept, we thought to add some layers to it to give the audience a sense of the cyclic, linear and multi-active attitudes towards time.

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Experiment with time, taking photographs of what I see every 5 mins- exploring concepts of time what someone sees as important in a photo, why was I looking here in this moment. What is my own cultural concept of time and how has it shaped the way I spend it

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Week 10: disruption.

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Interesting work at the MCA about time and relationships within family. The link between the insignificant passing of time to the lack of recognition of the significant moments of life.

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Final work

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artist statement

My work focused on the question of rebellion, My work started out with an investigation into relational aesthetics and how it is a rebellious thing to do in the art world when considering the extreme end like ‘Rirkirt Tiravanija’ where he makes Thai food for his audience and that is his work. There was a discussion in week 2 in class where people were trying to define ‘what is art’ and it was agreed by all in the class that instagram pictures of food are not art, so I began with my experimentation of rebelling against this assumption and making a simple aesthetic image of food to be considered art.

After my poster I was unsure of my direction so I started to research food photography, so i started at the linear beginnings of food as a subject in art ‘Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio’s work where he paints food and he paints it realistically. In further research the common theme for food as a subject in art at that time (1800’s) was to toy with light and position to make the food look as realistic as possible, including any bombs and bruises that the food had.  

After going through a time line of food I came to artists such as karsten wagner who replace objects in famous art works with food, she does this so perfectly that the food she chooses doesn’t even look like food. Which is often the case in modern food photography. Food in advertising is rarely even food, you see a burger and often what makes up the burger is airbrushing techniques good lighting and non-food materials, rarely a bowl of ice-cream is even that, often its mashed potato because it looked more like ice-cream than ice cream in pictures.

So I started to take photographs of a bowl of grapes that was in my kitchen, playing with light and the position of the grapes, but each day the grapes grew mouldier and looked less appealing. Referring back to Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio’s what is more natural and realistic about food than the process of the food moulding. It’s the most realistic thing that happens. The process because of technology in farming and food preservation was taking longer than expected so i had to store the grapes in a warm light place and of a night would heat the grapes with a hair dryer to encourage the mould to grow faster. I liked the idea of my work being of high value because it assimilated with the critique of food photography, looking natural but also rebelling, as my would can’t be permanent and therefore loses its value the more it gains

In the end I was left with a solid documentation of how the grapes moulded and I played with the photographs. In reference to the work “error food landscape (1984) I was playing with the images of the grapes to make collages and landscapes.

I then took the original ‘perfect’ image of the grapes and replaced only the grapes with a collage that I made of the old mouldy ones, to merge the two concepts of ‘realistic’ and computer manipulated food.  So after further experimentation of collage with the grapes i was left with this.

My work explored the history of food photography and food being a subject in art but also rebels against the common theme of it being ‘realistic’ as the food in the famous works never truly was realistic, its only visually appeared to be.  playing with light and materials to make a food appear natural is the ultimate success, but my work is itself and its own process in the most natural form of food moulding. So as my documentations grow more realistic the value of my work decreases as its doesn’t appear to be a perfect grape. In turn my work is the rebellious relationship between reality and hyper-reality and the present and past

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Again experimentation with collaging trying to see what is most effective in the deliverance of my work

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More experiments with collaging and layering, I like the relationship that my work has with old food subject techniques such as lighting and making the food look natural and computer manipulation and editing to make it look modern

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I really like the collaging of the "realistic" grapes and experimented with cutting out and replacing the real original grapes with a collaged life cycle, which in thought is more realistic because it shows the grapes in all forms and not just at their most perfect

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Playing with light and positions in recreating Arjan Bennings work

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Error food landscape 1964, and then my own food landscape!!