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.
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