Sunday 4 November 2012
Essay for FA203
I am really struggling to get my head around the essay required for context FA 203, what am I supposed to be doing?
Whitechapel gallery
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Whitechapel Gallery Mel Bochner and Hayward Gallery Art of Change
Asked if I had enjoyed the exhibition, I responded with a definite no, why - I am not sure, nothing made me feel emotional apart from something that I had watched in the reeled films being shown in the gallery and unrelated to the MB Exhibition . I actually wonder now if that had effected the way I approached the exhibition.
I found the gallery difficult to follow and kept ending up where I had just been or not being sure which way I did want to go.
At home I looked at Mel Bochner on line, and wished very much that I had done this before visiting the Gallery. He was the son of a sign writer and has used the skills he learned from his father, in his Thesaurus paintings. He uses the round ended script , I think it is Palmer script, because you only need one brush stoke, with square ends you need three!
Reading about him and then listening to a National Gallery of Art, notable lectures pod cast-Mel Bochner in conversation with James Meyer, really provided a better understanding about his work, he seems to have a great sense of humour and I just love this that MB quoted:
Clement Greenberg on Mel Bochner's work:
CG:I don't like to think when I look at a work of art
MB:wow, how do you stop yourself?
CG:one of us is right
..... and left!
I now think that going to see the exhibition first and then finding out more after in this case has worked well for me.
Interestingly I did not enjoyed the 'Art of Change' at the Hayward, I had expected some performance and saw nothing during the whole time I was there, and I have not been drawn to follow this exhibition up yet.
Whitechapel Gallery Mel Bochner and Hayward Gallery Art of Change
Asked if I had enjoyed the exhibition, I responded with a definite no, why - I am not sure, nothing made me feel emotional apart from something that I had watched in the reeled films being shown in the gallery and unrelated to the MB Exhibition . I actually wonder now if that had effected the way I approached the exhibition.
I found the gallery difficult to follow and kept ending up where I had just been or not being sure which way I did want to go.
At home I looked at Mel Bochner on line, and wished very much that I had done this before visiting the Gallery. He was the son of a sign writer and has used the skills he learned from his father, in his Thesaurus paintings. He uses the round ended script , I think it is Palmer script, because you only need one brush stoke, with square ends you need three!
Reading about him and then listening to a National Gallery of Art, notable lectures pod cast-Mel Bochner in conversation with James Meyer, really provided a better understanding about his work, he seems to have a great sense of humour and I just love this that MB quoted:
Clement Greenberg on Mel Bochner's work:
CG:I don't like to think when I look at a work of art
MB:wow, how do you stop yourself?
CG:one of us is right
..... and left!
I now think that going to see the exhibition first and then finding out more after in this case has worked well for me.
Interestingly I did not enjoyed the 'Art of Change' at the Hayward, I had expected some performance and saw nothing during the whole time I was there, and I have not been drawn to follow this exhibition up yet.
Crit 1-year2
Crit 1 y2
This is such an special thing to happen, when the people who you work with, or who work in the same physical area discuss your work.
There is the point at the beginning when most of us are uncomfortable to start talking and fortunately Chris nearly always kicks off , that then starts the ideas going. At this point it is just great to sit back and listen. I still find it really suprising that people actually have something to say, positive or not about my work.
Sometimes, whilst the work has been developing there may have been talk about what is going on but interestingly sometimes new stuff comes to the fore. I try to take on as much as I can remember, last year it was great, I had such a well written report, but I did not understand a lot of what was being said until much later in the year when it came together and made really good sense.
I have been looking at ways of dealing with some of the issues that were raised, in particular finishing issues, I am normally careful but moving wet work, and rushing to complete have their own problems. It is the usual issues of finishing in time for drying, standing back and examining what has been done.
I need to, explore work in my sketch book first, I just don't know why I have stopped the habit. This weekend I have spent a great deal of time working on a piece that had not been though through or tried out, Ive wasted a lot of time and now feel quite flat about my current work.
This is such an special thing to happen, when the people who you work with, or who work in the same physical area discuss your work.
There is the point at the beginning when most of us are uncomfortable to start talking and fortunately Chris nearly always kicks off , that then starts the ideas going. At this point it is just great to sit back and listen. I still find it really suprising that people actually have something to say, positive or not about my work.
Sometimes, whilst the work has been developing there may have been talk about what is going on but interestingly sometimes new stuff comes to the fore. I try to take on as much as I can remember, last year it was great, I had such a well written report, but I did not understand a lot of what was being said until much later in the year when it came together and made really good sense.
I have been looking at ways of dealing with some of the issues that were raised, in particular finishing issues, I am normally careful but moving wet work, and rushing to complete have their own problems. It is the usual issues of finishing in time for drying, standing back and examining what has been done.
I need to, explore work in my sketch book first, I just don't know why I have stopped the habit. This weekend I have spent a great deal of time working on a piece that had not been though through or tried out, Ive wasted a lot of time and now feel quite flat about my current work.
Practice Seminars
Gosh this was a bit of a push to get together, there were three of us, not all available at the same time. Our leading question:
Do art practices foregrounding performance and the performative have lessons for how the art museum today should explore the role of society in art, and thus how it should think about programming, pedagogy and collection strategy? (performance and performativity http//www.tate.orguk/about/projects/performance-and-perform)
This was a really interesting topic and although I did not focus enough on what the question was really leading towards, the research I did do took me to some interesting places that I probably would not have explored otherwise. Apart from questioning how collection can take place and the problems inherent in the nature of performance art, I spent time looking at performances, using you tube and The Tate on line.
I found out about the FRBR, this is a body that identifies The functional requirements for bibliographic requirements, this organisation identifies what constitutes a record, performance art will no doubt have several interconnected records, there are then problems about the longevity of the media for storage etc.
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There is no art to store with out the artist, only the what is left over.....
and what the people who witness the performance take home......
More recently in our contextual studies I have begun to understand more about the the role of society in art, and I believe that I needed to look more at why there is this growth in performance.
Gosh this was a bit of a push to get together, there were three of us, not all available at the same time. Our leading question:
Do art practices foregrounding performance and the performative have lessons for how the art museum today should explore the role of society in art, and thus how it should think about programming, pedagogy and collection strategy? (performance and performativity http//www.tate.orguk/about/projects/performance-and-perform)
This was a really interesting topic and although I did not focus enough on what the question was really leading towards, the research I did do took me to some interesting places that I probably would not have explored otherwise. Apart from questioning how collection can take place and the problems inherent in the nature of performance art, I spent time looking at performances, using you tube and The Tate on line.
I found out about the FRBR, this is a body that identifies The functional requirements for bibliographic requirements, this organisation identifies what constitutes a record, performance art will no doubt have several interconnected records, there are then problems about the longevity of the media for storage etc.
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There is no art to store with out the artist, only the what is left over.....
and what the people who witness the performance take home......
More recently in our contextual studies I have begun to understand more about the the role of society in art, and I believe that I needed to look more at why there is this growth in performance.
Ok for the third time I will try and post a blog.
week one Drama Queens
I have written about my disappointment that after a week of fun and hard work the year 2 group were not able to 'stage' their performance of 'Drama Queens" but it seems (my blog) to be floating somewhere in space.
I am trying again to do this now. I thought we had fun working on this project, even though we had to repeat/re-do the 'performance' a number of times. It was really nice that the group worked well together to get this staged.
Using a small box stage, cut out "sculptures" were moved around supported by props, and videoed by Sammy, who wanted to direct, film and edit the work. She worked hard to pull this together. The video performance was not successful, too much movement so later what seemed like hundreds of stills were taken.
We attempted to record our reading of the play-that equipment failed, so Christine's i-phone took on the challenge.
The voice recording and the images were to be combined in to one presentation, but the combining of the two failed two or three times whilst Sammy tried to get these together. It was a shame that the effort had been made, the work, I would suggest enjoyed, not to have been able to have had some thing to show.
week one Drama Queens
I have written about my disappointment that after a week of fun and hard work the year 2 group were not able to 'stage' their performance of 'Drama Queens" but it seems (my blog) to be floating somewhere in space.
I am trying again to do this now. I thought we had fun working on this project, even though we had to repeat/re-do the 'performance' a number of times. It was really nice that the group worked well together to get this staged.
Using a small box stage, cut out "sculptures" were moved around supported by props, and videoed by Sammy, who wanted to direct, film and edit the work. She worked hard to pull this together. The video performance was not successful, too much movement so later what seemed like hundreds of stills were taken.
We attempted to record our reading of the play-that equipment failed, so Christine's i-phone took on the challenge.
The voice recording and the images were to be combined in to one presentation, but the combining of the two failed two or three times whilst Sammy tried to get these together. It was a shame that the effort had been made, the work, I would suggest enjoyed, not to have been able to have had some thing to show.
Thursday 11 October 2012
Has blogging got a double 'g'
I have been asked to create a blog address and write a blog, I'm finding this really diffficult, I can't just write a blog. What do I want to write about?
Firstly how do you spell blogging?
Does blogging have two g's, my tutor who is so keen on me writing a blog does not know.
Firstly how do you spell blogging?
Does blogging have two g's, my tutor who is so keen on me writing a blog does not know.
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