Monday, 28 November 2011
Clear tape...
a Sellotape option... the brown parcel tape screams Hirschhorn at me, clear tape is the way to go I think... though the artifacts/remnants aren't as pleasing. They have a used condom quality that is a bit on the grim side. I hope to have solved this as I've just ordered 12 rolls of clear parcel tape which should hold it's shape better than this thin stuff...
Friday, 25 November 2011
Changing the world and other things I need to think about
A couple of things that cropped up today...
Can art change the world? More specifically can art aimed at raising awareness around issues of climate change have any real effect? This was the question raised by one of the sociology papers in todays seminar... My problem is immediately one of politics, an misunderstanding the point of art. If art is a political activity, if art is concerned with questioning our understanding of the world, with questioning known truths... then it is concerned with changing the world. This is how art changes the world, it is not a useful tool for effecting immediate policy change. Anyone seeking to do this would do better to either become a politician, a protester or work in the appropriate field, (in this case environmental science perhaps?) An artist is concerned with making art and joins in artistic discourses, these are not separate from the world and therefore effect it, but in ways that are relevant to art practice. All subjects are fair game for artists but the context within which they are presented and examined should always be considered and understood. Does having a 'real effect' make the artwork any more or less interesting?...
I don't know whether that made sense....
Another brain teaser I was considering today... Politics requires form to exist, i.e. aesthetics of politics. Language, written or spoken, has form. Does a political thought have to have an aesthetic in order to exist? before it is communicated does it have an aesthetic form? is an internal monologue an aesthetic form even though it is imagined. Are imagined aesthetics still aesthetics if they are not communicated?... help...
n.b.
(perhaps, according to Ranciere it's not political as the thing that makes us political is our ability to communicate... Susie suggested reading more Kant & Derrida as well... I suggested some things are better left alone...)
Can art change the world? More specifically can art aimed at raising awareness around issues of climate change have any real effect? This was the question raised by one of the sociology papers in todays seminar... My problem is immediately one of politics, an misunderstanding the point of art. If art is a political activity, if art is concerned with questioning our understanding of the world, with questioning known truths... then it is concerned with changing the world. This is how art changes the world, it is not a useful tool for effecting immediate policy change. Anyone seeking to do this would do better to either become a politician, a protester or work in the appropriate field, (in this case environmental science perhaps?) An artist is concerned with making art and joins in artistic discourses, these are not separate from the world and therefore effect it, but in ways that are relevant to art practice. All subjects are fair game for artists but the context within which they are presented and examined should always be considered and understood. Does having a 'real effect' make the artwork any more or less interesting?...
I don't know whether that made sense....
Another brain teaser I was considering today... Politics requires form to exist, i.e. aesthetics of politics. Language, written or spoken, has form. Does a political thought have to have an aesthetic in order to exist? before it is communicated does it have an aesthetic form? is an internal monologue an aesthetic form even though it is imagined. Are imagined aesthetics still aesthetics if they are not communicated?... help...
n.b.
(perhaps, according to Ranciere it's not political as the thing that makes us political is our ability to communicate... Susie suggested reading more Kant & Derrida as well... I suggested some things are better left alone...)
Thursday, 24 November 2011
That's enough... (leaning/supporting)
Thank you to Ainsley who filmed this... this is the only record I have of the work made for the Embassy's film and performance event, staged as part of their professional development programme... (one could question the professionalism in not documenting an event/exhibition you'd organized but lets let it slide.... it was good of them to include the work and it suits me that a student filmed it...)
I believe that the whole thing lasted for 6 minutes, though I have no idea how the work was introduced or who saw it, just the odd cough and a pair of cowboy boots to suggest an audience. The only clue that it lasted 6 minutes is the sound-byte at the end... "that's enough... that's 6-" just before the film was stopped.
The film itself came in two sections, I've inserted a 1 second black screen in between them to allude to the missing footage... I'm not really sure what to think about it yet....
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
more tape and messing about...
It will not be going unnoticed that Lewis and Steph are featuring heavily in my working recently... They do have a good way of testing the limits of my ideas, they rarely do what I imagine they should, which is extremely helpful. Though the work consists of a set of conditions for a situation, which is subject to the participants behaviour and therefore will be different every time, working with S&L gives me a pretty good idea of the problems I might have... here are some more...
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