These negative space sculptures were created by artist Yasuaki Oishi. They are made of translucent plastic sheets and hot black glue to create a monumental sculpture that looks as if it’s floating in space. The artist stacks up a pile of cardboard boxes drapes the plastic sheeting over the scaffolding of boxes and then drips thousands of stands of hot black glue from the ceiling so that the sheet stays in place
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Plastic that fills the negative space in a gallery
Posted: May 13, 2012 by christiannaw in Uncategorized
Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich
Posted: May 13, 2012 by christiannaw in Uncategorized
A new space opens this summer, the underground oil tanks at Tate Modern, a space dedicated to performance art, ranging from public debate, live art, installations and dance. One of the first projects will feature the Choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker adapting a minimalist dance work she first performed in 1982 called Fase: Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich. A beautiful piece using shadows to dance with.
This performance happened a few years ago in London, there was also a gaint elephant that walked the streets, it was beautiful.
I am not one for performing in front of others. I do not even like talking about my work. So I can only hope that there is safety in numbers. That by working in a group I become anonymous
My Last post was of blue blinding lights, this was called the Breathing Room III which was exhibited in the lower floor of the White Cube. Antony Gormley’s intention with this piece of work was to try and jolt people, even frighten them by suddenly turning on blinding and disorientation white lights as visitors made their way through his work. We as a group may try and do something similar in the dark gallery space doing the exhibition.
I know that Parkour may not be considered an art form, the French military use it as part of their training.
But when BBC ONE used it as an ad its just beautiful.
Check it out
Pioneers of the Downtown Scene New York 1970’s
Posted: April 12, 2012 by christiannaw in Uncategorized
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWkkAU1RSLU
This was at the Barbican Centre last year, did not manage to see it but it must have been amazing.
Laurie Anderson singing with a lit microphone in her mouth
Posted: April 11, 2012 by christiannaw in Uncategorized
In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s Performance art was an assault on the senses produced by a combinations of different medias and disciplines, the non-narrative and the collaborations between different sorts of artists became known as ‘Happenings’
What attracted me to performance was the possibility of mixing sound, movement, image, all the different elements to make a complex statement. What I wasn’t good at was making a single, simple statement – like a sculpture.
Joan Jonas
criticismism.com/2011/04/20/liberate-tate-performance-tate-britain/
Posted: April 7, 2012 by christiannaw in Uncategorizedhttp://www.nowpublic.com/culture/performance-art-kirstie-macleod-acted-sara-farah
Posted: April 7, 2012 by christiannaw in UncategorizedA man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that 1.100 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.
Three minutes went by, and a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace, and stopped for a few seconds, and hurried up to meet his schedule.
A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a women threw the money in the till and without stopping, and continued to walk on.
A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.
The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried, but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally, the mother pushed hard, and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. The action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.
In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money, but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.
No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the most talented musician in the world. He had just played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, on a violin worth $3.5 million dollars.
Two days before his playing on the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theatre in Boston where the seats averaged $100.
This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organised by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste, and priorities of people. The outlines were; in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour; Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognise the talent in an unexpected context?
One of the possible conclusions from the experience could be;
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?
I was reflecting on the lecture that David Price gave on Monday afternoon, and about the artist Rirkrit Tiavanija whom he had mentioned. He made Untitled 1992 (Free) a sculpture – performance – guerrilla style art. He emptied an office and created a temporary restaurant, cooking Thai curries, anyone was welcome and it was free.
It made me think of how we interact with our space whether it is at work or at home how our presence changes the mood of a space. We leave a ghost print of our movement and if we could capture these movements like a print or pencil mark and trace where we have been. To physically see your own trail would be quite interesting.
Few of us like our space to be invaded, and how often have any of us made a deliberate move to cross the road or look the other way, so as to escape any form of interaction. There are always a number of reasons why we behaviour in this way, whether it is due to shyness, lack of time, a moment of peace and quiet that we do not want to have interrupted or just pure annoyance at the thought of interacting. We claim space and feel that even within a public arena it is ours, and those that stand to close may receive an unwanted groan or glance. The first few weeks at collage we all jostled for space within the studio, claiming and making demands on the requirements of our studio space. But sometimes we need to challenged how space is used and divided.
- I had a few ideas which I initially discussed with Farida and then when we had our first meeting we bounced about all of our thoughts. My prime concern was that we generated a project which we could manage within the time frame of college as we all had various commitments outside of our art practise.
- One idea that I had suggested was to make a sound recording of the area. To capture the many different cultures that live and work around the college and to enhance this with the sounds of church bells, pigeons, children in the playgrounds, the market etc. Maybe I will still do this project at a later date.
Space Within 