Work ready for 25/02
Hanging 11/03
About YOU and YOUR WORK… EXPERIMENT in SOMETHING NEW
francis alys: brought to my attention in the seminar however I was also aware of his "SOMETIMES MAKING SOMETHING LEADS TO NOTHING"
work in which he pushed a block of ice through Mexico city... I enjoy the concepts that punctuate the work "idea which speaks to the frustrated efforts of everyday mexico city residents to improve their living conditions"link I find the absurd nature of the performance fascinating, there is a sense of dry comedy throughout the 4:57 video as he ends up kicking the steadily melting block of frozen water... cigarette hanging out of mouth... spectators watching this peculiar act. However what I do find more punctuating about the piece is THE JOURNEY HE UNDERGOES,,, THE FACT HE LEAVES A TRACE OF WATER.. WHICH WILL EVAPORATE INTO NOTHING...THE ACT OF INTERVENTION THROUGH PASSING.
“A journey implies a destination, so many miles to be consumed, while a walk is its own measure, complete at every point along the way.” Francis Alÿs
"Francis Alÿs walks a lot. He walks the streets of the world’s largest metropolis, Mexico City, where he has made his home for almost twenty years. He has also walked the streets of Copenhagen, Sao Paulo, Jerusalem and London. Observing and intervening in this huge open-air studio, Alÿs maps the city, staging elusive scenarios and making poetic films and animations. His work can be as monumental as moving an immense sand dune (a project he undertook with five hundred people in Lima, Peru), as ephemeral as sending a postcard or as subtly humorous as having a peacock take Alÿs' place at an important gathering of his peers. LINK"
I AM INTERESTED IN THESE NOTIONS OF JOURNEY... THE INTERACTION BETWEEN SPACE AND OUR INFLUENCE WHEN MOVING THROUGH OR AMOUNGST IT.
DISCOVERY NUMBER ONE: i like TO JOURNEY.
Jan Dibbets:
the shortest day at the Van Abbemuseum, 1970
Colour Photographs
215.5 x 79 cm
collection, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Einhoven
these images were taken at the winter solstice through a window at ten minute intervals. altogether there are 80 photographs and it becomes a study into light and the OBJECTIVE nature of the photograph. Dibbets works in a machine-like way, with a system which adheres to certain rules this does not only make her work coherent in concept and aesthetics but also gives her the ability to execute work quickly and effectively.
discovery number two: i like the OBJECTIVE CAMERA.
OBJECTIVE OBJECTS: the photograph as object has always fascinated me... and i think this is important as we will be treating our work as OBJECTS in the EXHIBITION. I'm going to conduct some quick visual work about spaces using photographs as OBJECTS:
ed ruscha. every building on sunset strip, 1966
WOLFGANG TILLMANS. i have always enjoyed Tillman's presentation of his work... its dynamic and uses space as a different environment for images. prints are large, small, high, low and this alters your visual perception of the work and how as an audience you interact with the space.
ROSANGELA RENNO:
her work concentrates on the physical reality of photographs. she gave cameras to ten people from RIO DE JANIRO and asked them to take images of the CHRIST DE REDEEMER on these different cameras... this both an investigation on how individuals view the statue however I am interested in how the OBJECTIVELY DIFFERENT CAMERA camera see's it.
discovery number three: i like THE PHOTO AS PHYSICAL OBJECT
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