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Artist Research

Mixed media artist - Tamara Laporte 

Known for her process of collaging and painting mystical creations/characters 

She inspires me to reduce my colour palette this semester to at least three colours or three tones - I saw that this does not limit but enhances the paintings by the vibrancy of colours  

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Project 2 - Research

Performance Artwork - Abstract artwork 

Hologram =  a three-dimensional image formed by the interference of light beams from a laser or other coherent light source - a photograph of an interference pattern which, when suitably illuminated, produces a three-dimensional image.

Hologram diagrams: 

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Project 1 - Research

A body needs a soul - soul commonly referred to in religion - helps us answer the questions around the soul 

Lots of religions in the world - main religions in Australia: 

Christianity

Judaism 

Hinduism 

Buddhism 

Sikhism

Islam

Aboriginal Spirituality 

Each religion has a certain belief about the soul 

Christianity: 

Colour: Red  

The word for the soul: Soul

Judaism: 

Colour: Blue  

The word for the soul: Neshama 

Hinduism: 

Colour: Green

The word for the soul: Ataman 

Buddhism:

Colour: Orange 

The word for the soul: Anatta 

Sikhism:

Colour: Blue

The word for the soul: Atma 

Islam:

Colour: Blue 

The word for the soul: Ruh 

Aboriginal Spirituality: 

Colour: Yellow

Symbol: Community, handprint 

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Lecture  Notes - Week 8

Art + Science 

Warwick Thornton

Suzanne Anker - American - exploring the idea of Petrie dish 

Focus on microscopic and macroscopic species and substances thay were sometimes too dangerous to touch 

Topographic view 

Lia Halloran - American painter and photographer works in LA 

Deep Sky Companion 

About space - exploration 

110 paintings - process she does is very interesting 

Daniel Zeller - American illustrator and painter - Titan - ink on paper 

interpretation of pro images from space mission when the pro got consumed/crashed 

Topographical 2D work 

Xavier Cortada - American artist 

went to an event about the biggest experiment ever done 

5 panels - 5 experiments 

Luke Jerram - glass work - bacteria - glass microbiology - bacteria = virus sometimes 

Jen Stark - Op art 

Detail 

USA Artist 

slice anatomy 

Colourful 

Visually striking 

Susan Aldworth - specialises in the mind - bring concerns into visual form, conscious - brain matter 

Janet Saad - look - works with light - photographs 

pioneer 

reflection - refraction 

uses the sun as her light 

Fabian Oefner - photography - microscopic work 

Science galleries 

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Lecture Notes - Week 7

Spirituality 

Religion - apply term for institutionalised formal practices with recorded history, est. traditions, and shared rituals and doctrines 

History = art + spirituality = strong bond 

Timmy Payungka Tjapanganti - Wilkinkaranya (1974) 

Joseph Campbell - ‘The Power of Myth’ (1988) - video - Youtube and Netflix - performance and documentary 

Circle = important symbol 

Sand painting 

Hindu tantric painting 

An ancient cultural practice - From ‘Tantric Song’ by Frank Andre Jamme (2011) 

Gerhard Richter - Stain glass window - process = chose numerous colours and sticks them into a random order 

Grossmunster Cathedral: Zurich - does cool stain glass window - like cells - biology and microscope style 

Micheal Riley - cloud series 2000 - still has an active website even tho he is dead 

We use the word spiritual to refer to the yearning to belong 

Bill Viola - ‘l’exposition’ (2014) - ‘The Crossing’ (1996) (Detail man in Flood) - Performance piece contrast between fire and water - one consumes the other weighs down 

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Repeat After Me Activity

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Acting Up Activity - Partner Tamara 

Word = Escape 

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Hologram Video - Project 2

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The Embodiment of Camera - Video 2 

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Embodiment of a Camera - Video 1 

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Peer Review - Project 3

This work has a strong connection to the body and really immerses the audience in it through the familiarity of the forms and marks laid out before them as if it was a common table holding industrial materials. The focal point, ‘Grab Me’ sign conveys sexual messages and statements behind the works pretty flowers that are painted coming out of the figure. This message became concrete to me when I saw the scratches, scrapes and sexual hand movements that had become empty shells. Overall, Kiera’s body of work drew me in and made me question how others see and react to different figures. 

Artwork Photos:

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Project 3

Reflection:

When it came to exhibiting my works I didn’t really have a plan of sorts that would work out well. I think this really showed during and after set up because my works were missing their personalities. There are a few reasons for this loss. Firstly, I could not borrow a television screen for the hologram on the day because you are actually not allowed to ly televisions screens on their backs due to overheating. This meant I had to use my laptop and this made the work lose its clean sharp feel. 

The other problem was displaying project one - it was just hung wrong. 

In general, I think this experience has been a massive learning curve and I believe that next time I exhibit work I consult someone else about the practicability of the setup and will it enhance or disadvantage the artwork.

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Week 5 - Acting Up

The group views and discusses each performance to consider the relationship between the allocated term and the actions performed by each pair.

The aim of the activity is to highlight the ways in which actions/processes constitute a mode of both form and content.  In so doing, the activity is strongly connected to Project 2.

My Reflection: Overall, Tamara and I took a fun approach to this activity and bounce ideas off each other to create a performance that symbolised our word, escape. We activated our bodies in this performance by putting ourselves in a catastrophic position that was very unstable and did lead to some physical pain through scratches from the wires edges. If we were to do it again I think we should use the chicken wire to make an artwork about our performance afterwards.

After class each individual student should describe 2 performances by their peers and write a brief reflection on your Blog that considers:

Performance 1: Abbey and Darcy - Connection

How did each pair activate/use the body?

Abbey and Darcy activated their bodies by tying themselves together with thread that was tangled and led to them twirling and swirling to unknot these threads.

What types of contrast or correspondence were observable in the works?

The pair correspondent together because they were connected by the threads bu they also had different ways of doing their part which created contrast and overall, made the performance entertaining and engaging.

Performance 2: Alicia and Charlene - Concentration 

How did each pair activate/use the body?

They activated their bodies through becoming in sync and bonded together by their natural rhythm together as a pair, by throwing rocks between each other same distances, height and time.

What types of contrast or correspondence were observable in the works?

Their methods of throwing were different with Charlene having more control over her movements than Alicia, this gave their performance a nice contrast that let us know their personalities as people. 

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Week 6 - Lecture Notes

Time 

 - Natural time: cycles, rhythms, patterns, seasons (biological clock) 

 - Machine time: measured mostly for economic purposes: clocks, calendars, machines 

 - Describing words: Transcience, Permanence, Change, Moment, Now, Then, Duration, Pause, Minute, Past, Present, Future, Eternity 

 - Vanitas Painting (Death) - Still Life - Photography Lecture 

 - Sarah Lucas = commanding stare - skull - kind of let us talk about death together 

Industrialisation: 

 - “Radical alternations in world view were to be anticipated within a single lifetime.” 

 - Joel Meyerowitz - ‘Between the Dog and the Wolf’ - based on twilight - plays with artificial and natural lightning 

 - Alexander Sokurous - focuses on Russian history - 90 min movie - one take - dude needs a medal 

 - Hiroshi Sugimoto - mostly a photographer - took photos of museum - surreal qualities 

 - Artist Couple Fischili and Weiss - Swiss - focus on chain reaction - cause and effect 

- Heide Fasnacht - American artist - photographer - recreates scenes out of her photos - Cornelia Parker does similar work 

PERFORMANCE ART - time is a need in these works 

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Week 5 - Lecture Notes

Language in art 

 - work accompany by text 

 - art + text = interwoven in history 

 - Rachel Berwick - parrots - cultural identity - linked with language 

 - Filippo Tommaso MARINETTI 

 - Words visualise sounds

 - Modern art = speaks/visualises the modern world 

 - Renee Magritte 

 - Structure of Language - IMPORTANT   - Xu Bing - Book of the Sky - concept of alienation if you do not speak the language of a culture that surronds you 

 - Lawrence Weiner 

 - Joseph Grigthy 

Language = Protest

Representation of Language 

 - Ray Lichteastein 

 - Joesph Kosuit 

 - Marcel Duchamp - Fresh Widow 

 - Bruce Nauman - Neon Lighting 

 - Douglas Haubler 

 - Sophie Calle - Hotel Room 

Identity from Langiuage 

 - Gillian Wearing 

 - Hayley Newman 

 - Alice Lang 

 - Ben Rubin 

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PROJECT 2

Body Work/s for Something. 3 weeks: 15 hours.

For this project, I took a technological approach and made a hologram to present my performance piece that was a work that involved the body through the use of the colour clothes that suggested a body dancing. Overall, the editing of the footage took a long time because the video was over 500 frames in photoshop. Unfortunately, because of time limitations, I was not able to edit all the footage in time. The hologram was also really small when I presented it and I did not get the math right so the triangle was off and incomplete. - Definitely, want to focus on improving this technology and pushing the holograms to the max through maybe the use of multiple mirrors. 

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PROJECT 1

Work/s for a Body. 3 weeks:  15 hours.

What could be a Body? What can be made for that body?  

Answer: anything 

Review 

My way of thinking for this assignment was that a body needs a soul for it to have life. Even a body of water has a soul - the souls that live in it and how it nurtures the mysteries within its waters. The most common knowledge of the soul is found within religious - I chose to focus on the seven main religious of Australia for this assignment: Christianity, Judaism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Aboriginal Spirituality. 

In this artwork, each religion has three blocks of wood that display the colour of the soul, the main scripture about the soul and their traditional languages and the traditional name of the soul in these religious. I took a mixed media approach to be able to include all of this symbolism through the use of layering. Overall I was really caution about how I approach this task because in some religious you need to have permission from the elders to paint their symbols and stories (for these reasons the Aboriginal Spirituality blocks are basically untouched. This is because I didn’t want to offend anybody.  

PHOTOS: