these are actually pages from the first book, i tried to include stylized drawings of a woman in it, too, looking at it now, i think, that it kind of goes with the semi-autobiographical theme of the text
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
2 books
i produced two black and white books, that i bound @ Kinko's, in one i mixed handwriting and typed-up writing, i wrote on the typed-out text, too, as if someone edited it, i played with scale, kind of collaged smaller and bigger parts, all of this was with the 54- page text that i was supposed to produce ( i actually was supposed to produce 77 pages, but i kind of haulted it and now have less text, anyways , here are some of the pages of the 2 eight and a half by eleven inch books
mostly text and tables
slightly out of kilter, pondering, if that is what we are shooting 4 here, looks kind of nice, though, and, hey, nice is not a dirty word here, not anymore, not anymore
ah, the painting studio
am pondering, how much this place changes by using a disposable camera, it totally changes, becomes much more cinematic, theatrical, with all the sharp contrasts of light and dark, the camera totally changes the reality, that particular moment in time is documented in a totally askew way
taking pics of time
for one month (well, actually for as long as it took to finish a roll of 27 photographs), i photographed the inside of my locker on the fourth floor in the south building of ecu ( in the painting studio). it is just an attempt at documenting time, it obviously has glitches, sometimes i would change the location, i would vary the time of the day and i would not come in every day. i kind of combined this with writing two pages of text (Times New Roman, point 12, double-spaced), each and every day. i was kind of experimenting around with the concept of time, with producing the same amount of things ( words in the case of the text, clicking a photograph in the case of the lockerphotos). to me, text is nothing but lines on paper, very similar to other visual units, be it 2-dimensional, be it 3- dimensional. these units can then be used to build, produce a bigger entity, they are like mosaicstones, like bricks for a building,( if that makes sense). in this case, in the image above, i collaged 3 images in the scanner. i want to document the process that eventually was distilled into the two final projects, the performance with the chairs in mid-term and the 3 animations that i showed to the class in the room near the copyplace in the north building. i notice that lots of the things i did over the 4-month period were attempts and processes that were not necessarily going anywhere, but i kind of like all these loose ends, because that is the only way that i can go somewhere, i first have to make an attempt to do certain things and then see where it goes, and then, in the end, edit them out or leave them in. thus, my artwork, if one can call it that, is heavy on process, not that heavy on execution, because i somehow seem to stay in the process of "R&D", in the process of developing my concept, in stashing away all these sketches for an exhibition. I must add, that i was kind of influenced by artists, who occupy a space in a gallery and change their exhibit within that space each and every day. obviously i cannot do that in a 30 minute or 15 minute crit, but i can take a stab at it by physically putting all those loose ends in the same space as i did in the midterm project, where i physically put all the stuff i produced over the two first months, together, without any hierarchy, without editing, there were no strong points, no weak points, it kind of flew into each other, amalgamating. i like it like that, i said at that time that my project is about failure, but i think now i could rephrase that in a more positive way, call it a project about potential, about process, about the struggle with an idea, with the articulation of an idea.
Monday, December 7, 2009
eight short animations and what they stand for
So she uploaded her eight animations, which are loosely related, not so much in subject matter, but in the way they are conceived and in the way they are executed. They are either shot under the camera, in stop motion, or are drawn successions of images. They are slightly a reflection of what the animator thinks of herself and thinks of the process by which she is making the animation, the film. I would classify them as "selfportrait", in a very loose definition; it is obviously not a painting of the artist, not a mirror-image, though one could argue that the hands of the animator are part of the film in some of the animations.
I set these animations in relation to what I did before, which was writing texts that describe myself in relation to my surroundings, while I am typing away in front of the monitor, hammering my observations into the keyboard.
I set these animations in relation to what I did before, which was writing texts that describe myself in relation to my surroundings, while I am typing away in front of the monitor, hammering my observations into the keyboard.
yep, senior studio-cramming or cramming # 77
December 7, still Zero Nine, she is sitting here in the library trying to elevate her otherwise shitty artpractice into a superior one. she looks out @ the bridge, the ever-present bridge, obviously no engineer would work like her, there have to be concrete blueprints, meticulously calibrated designs waiting to be forced into the physical realm, that is how form will ultimately follow function. She ponders, so that is how her artistic practice is different from, well, let's call it "the real world".
She tries to make sense of these four months, which were basically plagued by constant envisioning and revisions of that kind of tentative "sketch, proposal", the artwork got lost in the process, the process somehow became the artwork. There were texts written, drawings done, there were photos taken, animations uploaded. the only thing constant was the "being in flux". This is not how artists should work or is it? There has to be a manifestation of thoughts, of ideas and it is utterly debatable if a blog is documentation enough, is physical manifestation enough. She ponders if this blog is the final artwork, situated firmly somewhere in cyberspace, not traditional enough, not modern enough. a sketch , sketches , somewhere in the clouds. ( SHE IS REFERRING TO THE TERM CLOUDSPACE WHICH IS LOOSELY USED as a synonym for cyberspace). In the last crit for her project she tried to explain that using you tube, blogger and the like is as potent a manifestation of an art work as any, be it a text, a film, an image. Obviously it can be seen anywhere in the world, it does not need a physical galleryspace, there is no exchange of money as there is in renting a piece of real estate and putting a sculpture therein, though, obviously we could debate the notion of "stolen land" ad nauseum. She ponders if she throws way too many ideas into the pot here and if that is what she is vying for here. anyhow, she will upload her animations onto this blog, in order to document them, in order to situate their image, their images into a slightly-fixed space, to give them a final resting place, to quote one of her profs.
She tries to make sense of these four months, which were basically plagued by constant envisioning and revisions of that kind of tentative "sketch, proposal", the artwork got lost in the process, the process somehow became the artwork. There were texts written, drawings done, there were photos taken, animations uploaded. the only thing constant was the "being in flux". This is not how artists should work or is it? There has to be a manifestation of thoughts, of ideas and it is utterly debatable if a blog is documentation enough, is physical manifestation enough. She ponders if this blog is the final artwork, situated firmly somewhere in cyberspace, not traditional enough, not modern enough. a sketch , sketches , somewhere in the clouds. ( SHE IS REFERRING TO THE TERM CLOUDSPACE WHICH IS LOOSELY USED as a synonym for cyberspace). In the last crit for her project she tried to explain that using you tube, blogger and the like is as potent a manifestation of an art work as any, be it a text, a film, an image. Obviously it can be seen anywhere in the world, it does not need a physical galleryspace, there is no exchange of money as there is in renting a piece of real estate and putting a sculpture therein, though, obviously we could debate the notion of "stolen land" ad nauseum. She ponders if she throws way too many ideas into the pot here and if that is what she is vying for here. anyhow, she will upload her animations onto this blog, in order to document them, in order to situate their image, their images into a slightly-fixed space, to give them a final resting place, to quote one of her profs.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
senior studio- cramming
sitting here in the animationlab trying to experiment with different short animations
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