Having had my tutorial with Liz, a studio crit and my essay tutorial with Bernice, I now feel as though I should be able to write about my work quite thoroughly, what has happened is I feel like I have finally got a finished piece that I would like to exhibit, the colours and ideas seem to have converged in a way that gets very close to my original intention. I think it goes back to some of my thinking from last year about the nature of reality, the work poses questions about what makes objects real, what is their integrity in space and in their appearance. This is connected quite closely to my critique of Minimalism and relates back to this idea of epistemology, Morris' question of how do we know something is art, although I am going at it from the other direction, rather than taking objects and questioning whether they are art objects I am defining things as art objects and then asking whether they are in fact real objects.
This relationship that I want the viewer to have with the objects has become entangled with a narrative that has been perceived as dystopian which I am interested in but it is a point of contention because I am not sure whether the potential for the work to speak purely critically is more interesting than for it to allude to something bigger outside of the work, I want the work to be autonomous but perhaps this is seen as a negative now? Maybe there is something around Bataille's ideas of base materialism that denies the autonomy of the art work, maybe it should be implicated in the grubby real world and taken back down into reality, I think I am more interested in making a reality for the work to exist in where the edge of the work is the end of the work and the questions of reality are contained, rather than it being a question of the extent to which the work flows out of itself back into the context outside of itself as an art piece, I want it to be contained in itself as an art work so that the question of reality happens much more specifically to the shapes and forms. This is a difference between conceptual and spatial autonomy, is the work that you look at dependant on an external theory or is it a self contained visual experience, but then I don't think it is a self contained visual experience if it is not contained in space within the boundaries of its own materiality and it is this autonomy of space that I am more interested in than a conceptual autonomy, I'm thinking now that perhaps it is ok if the work refers to a discourse around minimalism and materiality which exists outside of the work as long as the work does not rely on specific references in the work. I think work that is detracted visually by a dependance on references is what I'm trying to avoid.
I want to remove the associations of the objects by comparing them to each other, the foam tube exists in comparison to the computer model so it cannot exist in comparison to its original function as pipe lagging or floatation device. But then there is the problem of the colour, the colour will always be associated to something but it is my intention that the colour is implicated in my own imagined world where potentially these are the only colours that exist. I'm interested in how objects and images can be used in arbitrary ways to fill up a space within reality, they become paradigms, examples of a perfect way of seeing where the physical properties of the materials become interchangeable. This is partly why the presentation of the video is vitally important because it adds so much more to this simplified world than the other objects depending on how it is displayed. If I continue to display it with the computer visible then it adds all sorts of narratives about the process through which the work was created, which has a certain immediacy which fits in with the general appearance of uninhibited arrangement and production techniques, the idea that using a screen monitor would remove it too far from the original process and make it seem over considered. But then there is the problem of a narrative and the computer bringing to many other issues into the work. Potentially this issue of displaying the computer or not will be very significant in the progress of my work, I am interested in the relationship between the computer and reality and what might be outside of that so building out from the computer sculpturally is a very immediate way of exploring this.
Monday, 21 November 2011
Tutorial with Liz
It is becoming increasingly apparent that my use of materials and colours draws a line of taste, it is either to your taste or not, I don't know if this is problematic or integral to the way the work functions, i think probably the latter. People either have a strong negative reaction to the material or a strong positive reaction, I think that this is because my work tries to exemplify a certain style that I see as representative of a specific online culture on tumblr. I'm interested in the contradiction of wanting to eat something that cannot be eaten, consumerism as a literal bodily function, and the way that the materials and colours make you want to eat them even though they don't exist in nature, candy colours are unrealistic. Wanting to touch and eat the work is important in its sensory seduction, this could be seen as a barrier to deeper readings of the work because it becomes a superficial experience of aesthetic as seduction but perhaps it is that uncomfortable situation that I am interested, art now is very anti seduction for good reason, because advertising and the mechanisms of consumerism have such barbaric and horrifying consequences and connotations, but what else is there in art, is this pretence to something other than aesthetic seduction in itself bogus?I think that I'm going down a route of formalism that I want to get through, I want to purify the vision somehow to overcome it because this doesn't have to be what my work it. People have different reactions to the cgi work as well, moniker thought it could be shown with the painting I did in first year, dave felt that it was the use of materials that was most important, martin westward thought it was just research for a film of object and liz seems to think it is much more interesting than my other work, maybe it has become more interesting as I have developed it. I could take some time to focus on the cgi stuff because I haven't done that since the beginning of first year and it would be nice to come back to it in an in depth way, I feel like I know where the sculptural work is going and I'm not sure I want to take it there yet. But there is also this idea of integrating the sculpture with the cgi and this somehow involving the construction of a sculpture around the screen which is something I've been meaning to do and something which might be really fun.
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Derrida's theory that meaning is created through the differences between things, nothing has its own pure meaning it can only have meaning in correspondence to something else, this can relate to sexual experiences where people have sex with each other in order to give themselves meaning in the differentiation between themselves and their partner, this can also be related to Freud's theories around the fetish, it is the distress of the difference to the opposite sex which creates a feeling of uncertainty about ones own pure meaning you no longer have meaning as a self you only have meaning as comparable to the other.
- i did some green screen films last week, very very low quality but pretty fun might do some mroe
- wow, how did they look?
- pretty great, but as i said low qual i just did it on photo booth so very pixelated
- i used to bring my laptop in quite often but now i never do..im too lazy to carry it
- i need a good bag for mine
- i started trying to send you a vid but obv its taking ages to load
- no worriess
- think once i make something im happy with i will probs youtube it, i have a vimeo account but kindof interested in having youtube as like the context for the work or something haha or maybe xtube would be better..
- xtube would be so funny
- hahaha
- im trying to get my head around vimeo now
- its pretty easy, but to make the player look nice you have to pay for an account, like if you want to get rid of the part where it says vimeo if your embedding it..
- aaah
- i see
- i may have to pay for one once i get the ball going
- exspensive?
- like i remeber the video players on your tumblr were actually really ncie
- yeah, it is good
- im so addicted to tumblr now but i never post anything i just scroll through loads of superficially pleasing images of like unicorns and hot boys
- im worried that its starting to influence me though, like im developing this really strict colour pallet.. if that makes any sense
- like i only want baby pink and minty green and like turquoise and lavender
- its all very 90's nail varnish
- my little pony colours..
- hahahah
- thats tumblr all over
- oh dearrr its true then i am just absorbing it and becoming like aesthetically brainwashed
- thats kindof interesting though i guess
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