Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Sunday, 28 March 2010
PAUL MERTONS WEIRD SILENT FILM
A PRAXINOSCOPE
A ZOETROPE
MAGIC LATERN SHOWS
edward muyabridge - luno brothers
there were no cinemas because it was such an early invention so were shown in between variety acts.
THE SERPENTINE DANCE
GEORGE MELIES - AMAZING FIRST FILMS a trip to the moon
he built the first film studio in montroy or something
outskirts of paris
charles pathe,
GEORGE ALBERT SMITH - stage hypmotist english george. first editing. no one knows of him
JAMESWILLIAMSON develop multishot film dramatic affect
andre deed
george pathe
cinema itala
V&A decode design exhibition.
Definately my favorite piece, made a simulation of all the airplanes wthin 24 hours in north america. my favourite bit was when it went quiet between 1am till 7am then u could see the right hand side get busier and slowly move to the left with the sun. that was actually an amazing bit. it feels like something which wasnt planned but came from just doing it and signified something beautiful.
The keycode to let the viewer in the show know whethet he pieces are interactive or not and on what level. very clever and looked really nice. Little details which other people porbably dont notice.
Loved the spectacle of it I guess.........
Movng image wont come up when i print it off. but has a collection of images from show on loop.
Was a nice show....I just enjoyed it for what it was.....wasnt really related to work but it also was. Im interested in how interactive it was....and the need for that these days to keep people interrested. need to look up the topic of the spectacle and interactivity and how we get bored easily these days and things need to be sensory. the instant
RICHARD HAMILTON - THE SERPENTINE GALLERY
Yea this was the least time ive ever spent in the serpentine. it was all pretty simple to see. just how one image can coomunicate different things through being manipulated differently. i guess there is a beauty when thinking about his ability to think of different techniques. and it is political. using media images, a carry on investigation of worhols investgations etc. yea its nice. dealing with surface. hasnt affected me mucht hough. not sure why. i think it could of been better in a bigger exhibition. maybe. it felt like little tasters. the thatcher thing was amazing though. about conditioning etc. loved the way it was made. Iguess the way the images were curated was good. having a smaller one near the floor so it didnt draw much attention to itself. yes it was a good show.
UN CHIEN ANADALOU - DALI FILM
A film that we were pushed to see in National Diploma but didnt undewrstand it at all and thought it was a load of rubbish so I decided to go and see it again. ummmm I still dont think i get it. I think i need to sit down and proper decode but I dont care about enough. I see things i didnt see before. but nothing major lazor
CLOCKWORK ORANGE, AMERICAN PSYCHO, TARRENTINO
Loved this film.....really questionned the difference between a good and bad person. The beethoven shots with the jesus figureen and the sped up sex scenes were amazing. Im interested in this jutxapostioning of happy songs with horrible situations. eg. american psycho where its all about mixing murder with a happy song and tarantinos ear shot.
Im partcularly interested in how american psycho dealt with the ideal. the ideal physique and money etc, and the price he was playing. you also question if this stuff actually happens because u have no idea because is in no way connected. obviously it doesnt but im not sure how much of it is true and how much isnt. it is definately exaggerated. i love these exaggerations to make a point of highlighting something tho. and the cost other areas pay in the exaggeration of others. one liners also...."has to give some tapes back." The business cards.
Also with the clockwork orange.....it pretty did deal with what a good and bad person is and the choice involved in it and what are the human attributes and how do people deal with bad people in society. what is right and wrong and where it all comes from. evil.
Was talking to tatsu yesterday abnd i said i had a theory and there was too types of bad people. those who conditioned badly and lost and angry within society who havent been shown another way. and then there are those who are genetically evil. i sound a bit hitlerish but i dont mean in a way that some people should be killed etc just that.....they cant help it. it is just them.
just like some people are incapable of learning. its genetic.
The mixture of happiness with melancholy is what it is in my work. it works the same way. laughing at the happy music but something awful is happening. toilet rolls on a wall is funny....but could socialism work? no...it cant. etcetc
Monday, 22 March 2010
chu yun - constellation
I love this piece. the title of it is just as important as the material. using all the stand bys. it reminds me of when i was watching shooting stars and they did a quick scene where they took the fit lady on a fake date and they were describing what type of stars they were through the voltage of the studio lights. amazingly clever. it makes a good comment on what it is to live now. stand bys are slowly becoming extinct because they waste energy and yet its mimicing a fake reality of our stars. the lights in out cities are causing light polliution making it impossible to see stars so here is a recreation out of the lights we have. absolutely beautiful. has got me so excited. its about finding these little things which are disappearing as a result of the global changes.
hoxton eastend gallery day
PEER - Kathy Penthergast - Yeah was okay i would of loved this in foundation and i guess I do alot of these fdrawings when im bored and cant think of anything to do.I can imagine these being simple and people likign them and buying them. Im hoping she doesnt just do this all the time and this is also a thing in between which is sellable. if its just her practice then its too simple for me. I duno...its like yea theres a form within the map that youve ntoice and your colooruing the rest in and reducing it to frm but it doesnt dsay antyhing about antyhing. or maybe it does. I looked at her in foundation and i just dont feel like my view on her has changed since my conceptual framework ahs changed....maybe im getting snobby
ARCADE - Caroline achaintre - best exhibiton of the day. eeeemazing. the quality of what I was looking at was very good. conceptually simple but that doesnt matter. i could tell straight away that it was from painting even though it was a carpet technique. Goes to show what James says is true that it can be really simple so long as its done well. I just loved it. especially the little piece which had this heavy cermaic thing hanging from its leather string but the string had a slit in it which gave this feeling of real on edgeness about the whole piece. seriously top notch stuff.creating feelings...real art.10/10
THE WHITE CUBE GALLERY - Candice Bretiz - I found the first film incredibly amazing. i sat down for at least35 to 40 mins and a film hasnt done that to me for a while.i loved the way she completely controlled the vieiwer. your brain would think whats the tatoo about...then 5 mins later theyd answer it. and the way the moving image was manipulated to control us. the only problem i had was that the first film was so long that by the time i moved onto the other films i was exhasuted and my concentration had gone and i was just looking at the different bacground the mannerisms of the people. it definately questionned what an identity was for me though. the piece completely nailed the press release which is why i liked it. the artist is very sure of what they are doing and can step back from their piece and undersytand what they feel. i want to be that good. 
LIMONCELLO- Matthew Smith - These arent he pieces I saw however I duno if I liked the show. It consisted of a vdieo of mud tracks then some prints on yellow and the caps on the floor. I mean I am starting to appreciated just from the realisation how things are made and how difficult it is to get clean cut amazing things. so i respect in that sense. i did see a relaitonship between the whole things rather than each seperate thing being a whole unit itself. thats all i got from it. it made me stand at a point where i could see all of it once and try to understand the links behind them. actually I do really like this now that ive written about it. it is actually very celver. I would make this kind of art for my friends etc but i wouldnt want this for the public. its too elitest I think. I duno. I think im stil trying to hold to my anti elitest thoughts and am still wanting art to be for the people. I did like the show yes.
HAUSER AND WIRTH - Bharti Kher - yes was interesting to see sperm shaped bindis on top of pregnancy prints. it was interesting to see how the material changed its language when positioned against different backgrounds and surroundings. The lay out the exhibiton was very interesting. how it lead the viewer throuhg the room and you saw a bit of the unicorn out the top window before seeing it upstairs. this i liked very much indeed.
The art itself was a bit psssh. I duno. maybe i didnt get it. Maybe its just not me. I've never been to this gallery though so it was just interesting looking at who represented there.
Also i met a girl there who was invigilating who I knew from the art fair that I did a week ago and we started talking and i made a new contact which is mega cool and im starting to realise how small the art world is.
SEVENTEEN GALLERY - Graham Dolphin - I did like the film...lots of found videos about how empires and successful civilisations have always been built on slavery. nothing has changed. Although the content was good for me the aesthetic was very much like i would of picked a few years ago. very cool like colourful and hip....and i was thinking i didnt want my work to look like that. i want it to look more serious. is that conditioning. The things made out of bread didnt quite understand but I like the relationahip they had with the video piece....im not quite sure what it was about though....maybe i like it thats not obvious and one has to think a bit...yes I definately like that....bread.....the plynth on which the bread pieces were had the same style of the video. The calvin klien advert was very strange. So u think your a real artist. i might understand a little better another day.Overall the space downstairs felt completely escapist. trying to be very cool indeed.
R.O.O.M - Carolyn Brunt - creating lonely situations. Isolated. had a melanchonic feel to them, which was okay. not rating highly though. i was interested in HOW she manipulated them to exaggerate the lonliness. was okay.FLOWERS GALLERY - not very interesting stuff. however nice and big space
the saatchi gallery - richard wilson
When i came for my interivew at Wimbledon i went into London to see a piece of work by Tara Donovan which i loved. When I went to see it I was really disppointed and made me realise how documentation can affect a piece and how i got more out of seeing it online than i did i real life. This piece by richard wilson was one of these pieces. not that i was dissappointed by it. but i feel in love with it at as very young age thorugh its documentation and it fuelled alot of my reason for living and wanting to create that experience even though i had never exeprienced it. it was trhough pictures.
Knowing it was made from oil i didnt anticipate the smell. I loved the smell.. I thought it was amazing. and the opitcal illusion it was cool. but the channel to go inside was shut off probably for health and saftey and i guess in my head and for every viewer theres a certain sense of missing something by not being able to go. te channel was still there the viewer just wasnt allowed in. which made u feel disappointed. wasnt very cool. I waited for years as well. Would it of been different if i was allowed?
It was beautiful though. and interesting. how the oil didnt ripple and stayed still etc.
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