Well what I just wrote below, is about stuff that is way in the future - 18 months away or more.
I now need to get my head down out of the clouds, and to pay attention to the remainder of this year, that is terms 2 & 3 of the 2008/09 year.
January 11:
Deadline for assessment of work from last term. Three pieces need polishing, some also reconstruction:
The Theatre Lights project as Interrupting the Screen. Think what I want to do is put the four videos on one screen for the duration of the Inca music.
The Coombe Walk as Animating the Urban environment. Have to add video and B/W stills to soundtrack, in effect, remaking the whole piece
Review Sometimes ... Loop, and polish it a bit. The image seem to me to be a bit rough.
January 04 2009 - am planning to have my ESSAY finished - the one that might be expanded into a thesis.
Realistically that is probably as much as I will get done. But I need to devise some kind of plan for January, seeing that this is all the time I am allowing myself to do the Portrait of Francis St Parish Centre 2009.
Think I won't do any more on the piece for the end of year until February.
I gather Easter is around mid April - April 12 to be exact. That leaves a bare month to the end of year show.
ANOTHER DISTRACTION/SIDE-TRACK:
More pictures of Sarah Sze work here on some-one's blog
Monday, December 22, 2008
SO-CALLED HOLIDAYS!
We finished up at the college on Friday when the library closed at 1300. So what of the great plans I have to not letting myself waste this precious 'free time'. Yes I know what people keep telling me about 'all work and no play makes Jack (and Jill) a dull person'.
Not sure if I think I'm immune to this 'dullness' because I happen to enjoy my so-called work, or whether in fact, I dodn't do any work, but 'play' at my art all day - either ways, I'm stubbornly occupying my time with art still, having given only a modicum of time to domestic matters over the two and a bit days (mostly a case of clearing away the chaos created by the art-pressures I put on myself during the term when I tended to just drop things instead of finding a place to put them away and giving myself the few minutes that this effort would take.
So what have I done art-wise over these days?
Well, I have begun two new note-books, one for my THESIS, and one for my DEGREE-SHOW.
In the Thesis notebook, I have begun to clarify my mind about the differences between the two areas, since because I am looking at similar themes, there could be mental confusion:
In the Degree Show Notebook, I have been letting my mind wander over different ways to display, organize, and categorize things.
DEGREE-SHOW idea currently is that I will make a large installation with my archival material, and will make a performance in that location about saying good-bye to most of these items which have been part of my life over a long period.
THESIS is to be about other artists working in this field of personal ephemera, what they do, how they do it, and what they aim to convey or communicate.
The books I have taken from the library to read over the hols are:
Also have downloaded all four episodes of Century of the Self (see older Posts below or at right of this blog entry) so as to have it accessible to me. Am only now realizing that since my work is intensely autobiographical (about my 'Self) I can only benefit by using, or at least being aware of how this 'Hidden Persuasion' functions, since I also have a hope of influencing people's thoughts and behaviours towards what I do, and I would want to be overt and up-front in my methods, rather than how it is described in that series.
I've also been looking at the work of SARAH SZE
There is a good image on the front of her website.
Not sure if I think I'm immune to this 'dullness' because I happen to enjoy my so-called work, or whether in fact, I dodn't do any work, but 'play' at my art all day - either ways, I'm stubbornly occupying my time with art still, having given only a modicum of time to domestic matters over the two and a bit days (mostly a case of clearing away the chaos created by the art-pressures I put on myself during the term when I tended to just drop things instead of finding a place to put them away and giving myself the few minutes that this effort would take.
So what have I done art-wise over these days?
Well, I have begun two new note-books, one for my THESIS, and one for my DEGREE-SHOW.
In the Thesis notebook, I have begun to clarify my mind about the differences between the two areas, since because I am looking at similar themes, there could be mental confusion:
In the Degree Show Notebook, I have been letting my mind wander over different ways to display, organize, and categorize things.
DEGREE-SHOW idea currently is that I will make a large installation with my archival material, and will make a performance in that location about saying good-bye to most of these items which have been part of my life over a long period.
THESIS is to be about other artists working in this field of personal ephemera, what they do, how they do it, and what they aim to convey or communicate.
The books I have taken from the library to read over the hols are:
- Arte Povera
- Schwitters by Per Kirkeby
- The Making of a Memory (Gob Squad)
- The art of Tracey Emin
- Fragments (photos John Stezaker
- Boltanski Time
- Urban Walls (college in Europe and US
- Illya Kabokov
Also have downloaded all four episodes of Century of the Self (see older Posts below or at right of this blog entry) so as to have it accessible to me. Am only now realizing that since my work is intensely autobiographical (about my 'Self) I can only benefit by using, or at least being aware of how this 'Hidden Persuasion' functions, since I also have a hope of influencing people's thoughts and behaviours towards what I do, and I would want to be overt and up-front in my methods, rather than how it is described in that series.
I've also been looking at the work of SARAH SZE
There is a good image on the front of her website.
Sze's small- and large- scale installations consist of carefully arranged found objects, such as toothpicks, pushpins, colored wire, match sticks, candy, aspirin, plants, and lights. These intricate constructions often suggest a miniature world of urban sprawl where each element is dependent on another. Her finished sculptures are not only architecturally sound, but suggest a living organism that moves, works and breathes. For past projects, Sze has utilized floors, balconies, ceilings, staircases, lit exit signs, and closets as sites for her installations.(Quote from ArtFacts.net)Not bad considering we also did trojan work on the domestic front.
Monday, December 15, 2008
New Ideas after TUTORIAL Monday
Will used the little video clip and see what can I do with it in Final Cut Pro.
Need to think through about audio - love the idea of the weather forecast as metaphor.
What kind of script that would sound authentic, but at the same time fit the ideas about depression.
Who would I ask to read it - maybe Marie Therese maybe Dave maybe Suzie or Simon. Need objective voice I think
Am now rushing to college to hopefully get technical assistance with FCP to multiply and add different colours.
Just Blue, pink, blinding white. Pink could be tinted at the edges with golden yellow fading to white, and delicate bluey green fading to blue
And just to make us envious, here is a super stop-motion sent me by my son Joey (It took them FOURTEEN MONTHS to make it! Ha ha! but the effect is very nice...) Remarks about making it are here
Fat City Reprise - Long Gone from Cesar Kuriyama on Vimeo.
Need to think through about audio - love the idea of the weather forecast as metaphor.
What kind of script that would sound authentic, but at the same time fit the ideas about depression.
Who would I ask to read it - maybe Marie Therese maybe Dave maybe Suzie or Simon. Need objective voice I think
Am now rushing to college to hopefully get technical assistance with FCP to multiply and add different colours.
Just Blue, pink, blinding white. Pink could be tinted at the edges with golden yellow fading to white, and delicate bluey green fading to blue
And just to make us envious, here is a super stop-motion sent me by my son Joey (It took them FOURTEEN MONTHS to make it! Ha ha! but the effect is very nice...) Remarks about making it are here
Fat City Reprise - Long Gone from Cesar Kuriyama on Vimeo.
Loop images
The chaos from which the project is emerging. You can see sheets of perspex balanced between chairs, with the lamp with foil-lined shade underneath.
This is one of the images created.Comments I would make are:
circle of light is too small, but limited by distance between objects and lamp which is limited by height of chairs.
Fuzziness of image is about the effect of the paper not being on top of the objects to protect the objects from being disturbed.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
LOOP WORK
Think this 'Loop Project' is driving me 'loopy'.
A loop is something that goes around and around. Exactly describes my head at the moment.
Two ideas are all I have come up with since Monday
1. Do an animation of the performance piece (Bipolar Balance) I am planning to do at the end of year. Idea would be to do a schematic visual 'first draft' how the piece might look at the end.
It isn't exactly planned to be a loop, but could be adapted to loop. This wouldn't be totally against the idea, since bipolarity is a recurrent condition.
2. Do a different version of the Coombe piece which I was very dissatisfied with when I presented it on Monday.
Problem here is that this definitely isn't a loop, though again, it could be forced into this shape (after all people do go up and down the Coombe over and over.)
Another challenge (must remember not to use the word 'problem) would be the length. The loop is to be 1-2 minutes, Coombe is over 29 minutes.
I've just had a third idea thinking about the 'over and over' concept. This is how TA describes the Games People Play. I could do some animation based on that.
Challenge is not knowing the software well enough to use it, and downhearted at the thoughts of how long it would take to draw and photograph each frame.
Thought I would look up some kind of definition of Games People Play and found this fascinating Stephen Pinker video about what he calls 'indirect speech.
It's long - nearly an hour I think, but well worth watching (or listening to while you do something 'mindless'.
A loop is something that goes around and around. Exactly describes my head at the moment.
Two ideas are all I have come up with since Monday
1. Do an animation of the performance piece (Bipolar Balance) I am planning to do at the end of year. Idea would be to do a schematic visual 'first draft' how the piece might look at the end.
It isn't exactly planned to be a loop, but could be adapted to loop. This wouldn't be totally against the idea, since bipolarity is a recurrent condition.
2. Do a different version of the Coombe piece which I was very dissatisfied with when I presented it on Monday.
Problem here is that this definitely isn't a loop, though again, it could be forced into this shape (after all people do go up and down the Coombe over and over.)
Another challenge (must remember not to use the word 'problem) would be the length. The loop is to be 1-2 minutes, Coombe is over 29 minutes.
I've just had a third idea thinking about the 'over and over' concept. This is how TA describes the Games People Play. I could do some animation based on that.
Challenge is not knowing the software well enough to use it, and downhearted at the thoughts of how long it would take to draw and photograph each frame.
Thought I would look up some kind of definition of Games People Play and found this fascinating Stephen Pinker video about what he calls 'indirect speech.
It's long - nearly an hour I think, but well worth watching (or listening to while you do something 'mindless'.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
CENTURY OF THE SELF
4-part BBC series by Adam Curtis about Freud's ideas applied to modern life, especially advertizing.
Part One - Happiness Machines
Part One - Happiness Machines
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
When is a PERFORMANCE an ART PIECE?
Some questions to think about in advance of my input to the Media 3 seminar December 3 2008
Was the event put on by the students on the occasion of the Minister's visit just a protest, or was it a piece of performance art?
I think it was an art piece
We got what we wanted in that our reps got to talk to him for a few minutes.
LANGUAGE is important - if we call it a piece of art - even people who don't agree with us will remember the event - otherwise it will go down in history as just another protest - and not a very big one at that.
Was the event put on by the students on the occasion of the Minister's visit just a protest, or was it a piece of performance art?
I think it was an art piece
- arranged in advance
- Clear agenda and well thought out purpose (see email from Students Union, Nov 24)
- well orchestrated (three part structure, and no prima donna distractions, other than 'here for the violence which was widely commented on.)
- Announced in advance as a performance
- allowed for audience participation (banners, posters, drumming, silence, pointing, chanting,
- lying in his path, but not obstructing him)
We got what we wanted in that our reps got to talk to him for a few minutes.
LANGUAGE is important - if we call it a piece of art - even people who don't agree with us will remember the event - otherwise it will go down in history as just another protest - and not a very big one at that.
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