Lines Squiggles and Webs PART ONE OF A TWO-PART WORKSHOP ( Saturday 30 April, next Saturday 28 May) The main ideas of the cross-disciplinary workshop are to investigate visual responses to music/sound, look at improvisation and explore the fine line between chaos and coherence. Soon into the workshop, we joined...
PARALLEL PROJECT - VISUAL MAPPING EXERCISE 1.4. THINKING THROUGH THE STRUCTURE OF THE PARALLEL PROJECT Method Do at least 3 visual maps as possible routes that this project could take Thinking about thinking and making as a studio process. It fascinates me, is it because I am a student? I...
Reflective surfaces and framed views - a stage on which to perform Looking at the work of Katherina Grosse (born 1961), Third Man Begins Digging Through Her Pockets, 2012. This is a work on a wall of the Cleveland MOCA Museum of Contemporary art - done with an industrial air...
CONSTRUCTING NARRATIVE Exercise 1.2. Before and after Reading point Link 31 refers to the last part of the text where James Elkins discusses 'The place of Narrative in Contemporary Art. The essay is in two parts: the first is a survey of representations of time in art; it is similar...
BECOMING AN IMAGE Exercise 1.1. Body as canvas I am uncomfortable when it comes to performance and immediately think of the female artist Marina Abramovic and how she explores bodily experiences/boundaries, there is also a form of learning/discovering through her doing or making. She never knows what will transpire out...
PROP, PERFORMANCE, STAGE EXERCISE 1. Object as a stand-in for the body Method: . Select one or more items of clothingUsing the clothing as a reference point, remake it either in a different material or enlarge itLook at work of artist Yinka Shonibare MBE - histories and issues addresses through...