Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Final exhibition: Mary Mary quite Contrary Greg project.
The link gallery
We exhibited our final ideas in the Link Gallery and also presented them to the visitor from Manchester Art Gallery,exlaining our ideas and our inspiration.I was not able to project my films in the end,but i had returned to platt hall and filmed enough good footage to simply show it on 3 t.vs,i believe this was still quite effective,especially with the sounds of creaking floorboards and rotating wheel mechanisms it still made you feel involved as viewer and displayed what i would hope to amplify with my actual installation . My other piece was an example of how i would use material to create the installation,i sewed my photographs into the moth-eaten looking yet quite delicate layers and chose to display them in this way as i found it also conveyed what i found interesting about the materials in the collection.
Retrospective 8 : Purple wednesday event.
Purple Wednesday,bay horse,a date sometime between Nov 1st and Nov 29Th,I'm a little hazy on the details...BUT.... me and Karol went to this event as we got involved. WE were told to make something out of a small piece of cardboard to sell to raise money. Karol made a collage and i had eaten a lot of maoam so i replaced the inside of the maoam with cardboard and made broaches out of string,fake maoam and safety pins.
The event itself was a film showing of short films made by students and postgrads in Manchester,they were really varied in theme,length and impact. I picked up some techniques that i could adapt into my own film for the Mary Greg project and that was to use editing tools such as reverse,speed and opacity to create an awkward yet atmospheric film in a less obviously edited way. In my film for the Greg project i used layers of video with opacity and varying speeds to focus attention on the material,textures and the atmosphere of the space.I also attempted stop motion for the first time.
(photos at a later date)
The event itself was a film showing of short films made by students and postgrads in Manchester,they were really varied in theme,length and impact. I picked up some techniques that i could adapt into my own film for the Mary Greg project and that was to use editing tools such as reverse,speed and opacity to create an awkward yet atmospheric film in a less obviously edited way. In my film for the Greg project i used layers of video with opacity and varying speeds to focus attention on the material,textures and the atmosphere of the space.I also attempted stop motion for the first time.
(photos at a later date)
Retrospective 7: video installation : douglas gordon and tony oursler
DOUGLAS GORDON
Confessions of a Justified Sinner 1995 (first image)
Video installation
Two parts
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
In the early 1990s Douglas Gordon produced a series of projected works using fragments of existing film footage which he manipulated in order to draw the viewer’s attention to unseen details. These works investigate the psychological impact of the moving image and themes of perception, memory and voyeurism.
Confessions of a Justified Sinner combines three clips from an early film version of RL Stevenson’s novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde that capture saintly Jekyll transforming into monstrous Hyde. The footage is enlarged, slowed down and projected onto two separate screens, one negative and one positive, in order to prolong and blur the two states.
i researched Douglas Gordons use of projection and film editing lasy year for my foundation project for which i created a projected installation:
Tony Oursler
I enjoy the playful yet surreal nature of Ourslers' work and it inspired me into thinking about back-projection,which this time last year i had never even heard of. The way he uses projection is inventive and he combines the idea of static physical structure with moving image,which inspired me into looking at how i could use the moving image in a closed material structure to directly involve the audience and make them feel as though they are expiriencing something.
Confessions of a Justified Sinner 1995 (first image)
Video installation
Two parts
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
In the early 1990s Douglas Gordon produced a series of projected works using fragments of existing film footage which he manipulated in order to draw the viewer’s attention to unseen details. These works investigate the psychological impact of the moving image and themes of perception, memory and voyeurism.
Confessions of a Justified Sinner combines three clips from an early film version of RL Stevenson’s novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde that capture saintly Jekyll transforming into monstrous Hyde. The footage is enlarged, slowed down and projected onto two separate screens, one negative and one positive, in order to prolong and blur the two states.
i researched Douglas Gordons use of projection and film editing lasy year for my foundation project for which i created a projected installation:
Tony Oursler
I enjoy the playful yet surreal nature of Ourslers' work and it inspired me into thinking about back-projection,which this time last year i had never even heard of. The way he uses projection is inventive and he combines the idea of static physical structure with moving image,which inspired me into looking at how i could use the moving image in a closed material structure to directly involve the audience and make them feel as though they are expiriencing something.
Tuesday talks: WHITWORTH ART gallery
9 November SIMON & TOM BLOOR
Simon & Tom Bloor's works and projects use a range of media including publications, drawing, sculpture and installation to investigate flawed idealism's and utopias. With an approach to research that has been described as more "magpie-like" than academic, their work reveals hidden connections and obscure histories. In addition to their collaboration together they are a part of the founding collective of Eastside Projects, Birmingham and are exhibiting a new commission at Modern Art Oxford this autumn.
I went to most of the Tuesday talks last year and really really enjoyed them and found they inspired my work and working ethos. I attended this talk because from the description i thought it may be able to inspire me ideas for the Mary Greg installation. I found the talk quite interesting,not amazing but they did go into public installation in open outdoor areas and working with establishments,using decayed industrial areas as inspiration for exhibited installations. I didn't understand the concepts of their work as well i wanted to but i was inspired to see inspiration in the simplest and most decayed industrial areas.
Retrospective 5: 'The Manchester Weekender!!' : ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES: shrink
Volunteers suspended in airtight transparent plastic,whilst the air is slowly removed. A performative piece.reflexive and intriguing.I attended this exhibition stupidly without my camera with the intention of returning the next day to photograph,which i couldn't,but i did take some on a phone so hopefully I'l get them uploaded. BASICALLY,i love performance,especially performance that makes the audience feel directly aligned with the performer/scared of the performer or made to feel awkward or intrigued in some way. This definitely achieved a subjective viewing experience,as the audience was left to stand in an atmospheric,ornate hall, 3 plastic screens/human suspending devices on each side, the volunteers then squeezed inside and posed,it took approx 10 minutes or less for the air to be removed,until they were left hanging,with a small pocket to allow them to breath. It made me consider:
- how we view performance? literally and how we view the nature of 'what it is'??
- how what the performer is subjected to directly affects the audience?
- how the piece did not explore claustrophobia,this was a theme experienced by the audience watching,it seemed to conjure in my mind the idea of commercial packaging in society,the performer versus the audience and human experience, foremost it 'just was', just a presentation of the human condition for us to interpret.
'HUMAN BEING, NATURAL PERSON AND ARTIFICIAL PERSON': a natural person can posses one or more artificial person(s)
http://www.andfestival.org.uk/event/shrink
Retrospective 4: PANOPOLY: i wore a very large dress with rubber genital parts on it.
Thefree for arts festivaltook place in OCTOBER and i got involved in two of the events : I photographed the 'SYDNEY STREET PICTURE HOUSE' film screening,which i really enjoyed but i also took part as a performer/model in 'PANOPOLY.':
PANOPLY!! - PICCADILLY PLACEPiccadilly Place - M1 3BN
Panoply!! Brings artists, designers and performers together to take on the job of creatively displaying a full catalogue of designs and ideas from the most cutting edge up and coming creative minds in front of a live audience.
Panoply!! is an artistic, performance event, which intends to open the minds of the viewers as to the world of fashion and design. Eluding the normaties of high street fashion, Panoply!! is inspired by the eccentricities and ambition of contemporary fashion catwalk designs and displays.The performance artists are asked to work with costume and fashion designers or work in the medium of clothing and textiles to investigate new ideas and pieces of work that can demonstrate powerful imagery, new ideas about fashion.
Panoply!! is a creation from the minds of a group called the Volkov Commanders. The Volkov Commanders invite the worlds of art and fashion together to witness how one can annex the others role and break the boundaries lying between.
Artists/Performers involved:The Volkov Commanders, Ed Wiffen, Mariel Osborn, Aliyah Hussain, Anna Beam, Rachel Maclean, Esther Arocha, Kirsty Maclaren and Sanna Berger
When:
8 – 11pm
Venue:
Piccadilly Place, M1 3BN (just 2 minutes from Piccadilly Gardens
I turned up with KAROL to this event with the idea that i would be modelling a head or shoulder piece,however i ended up in this very large and amazing dress with a bright blue face,blue wig with ears and various props. Due to my previous performance expirience i really got into character and froze into positions for long periods of time.I approached it like a serious actor. i enjoyed talking to the artist about her works and i saw costume form a completly different perspective,it made me think about the possibilities of recycled materials. The artist (RACHEL MCLEAN)also created a surreal film containing the costumes used at the exhibition,the film reminded me of a film i had seen at the Liverpool bienalle,a fragmented,extremly awkward film,using contrapuntal sound and high contrast with american iconography and brash chracterisation,fast paced cuts with smeared make-up and odd acting.
The other images were taken by the organisers and they show how the rest of the space was used.
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