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Art History in Daily Life

Artist: Alexey Kondakov

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Assessment 3 - Directory

I’ve listed below the links to each section for assessment 3 for easier access. Experiments 1 - using chance, studio experiment 2 - experimenting with wire (Bonsai experiment) 3 - Kintsugi with plastic 4 - Kintsugi with ceramics 5 - Kintsugi with glass 6 - Experimenting with wire and plants (Bonsai experiment) 7 - Shoji experiment with rice paper, utoplex, and fabric Research 1 - Research into the art of Bonsai 2 - Research into the art of Kintsugi 3 - Research into the art of Shoji Final Works 1 - Bonsai-inspired Teapot 2 - Shoji-inspired Dish 3 - Kintsugi-mended Teacup 300-Word Statement Click here

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Assessment 3, 300-word Statement

For this assessment I was tasked with further exploring the topic of Failure States as being used as a creative art + design strategy. I began my research and experimentation with the idea to create a complete, non-functional tea-set by creating each part of the tea-set as a separate final work. While researching I came across 3 concepts that originated from japan: Kintsugi, Bonsai and Shoji – hence, my tea-set became a Japanese inspired tea-set. My experimentation focused highly on materials as I wanted to find things that would fit the description of ‘non-functional’.

My teapot is comprised of holes, so it cannot hold liquids.

The teacup is mended with glue similar to PVA glue + sparkles, therefore it’s possible that the glue could begin to melt, and the sparkles would easily fall off into your drink.

The dish is made of paper, so it’s impossible to wash and easily stained.

However, the experimentation and research also assisted in the development of my final works and helped to link them to the topic as I was able to see how each inspired concept I adopted could relate to failure being used creatively.

The teapot was bonsai-inspired, and explored the idea of failure in gaining freedom being used creatively to become something new and beautiful – to please the human psyche.

The dish was shoji-inspired, exploring the concept of using the failure of purpose creatively to make something new that can be used for a completely different purpose.

The tea cup was mended using the art form of kintsugi, and explored the idea of seeing failure as beautiful. In my research post, I related the concept of failure becoming beauty to persons living with an impairment and suggested that, like the philosophy of kintsugi suggests, failure doesn’t necessarily need to be seen as something bad, but rather something that is important in having led a person or thing to who/what they have become today.

Though each final work can stand alone, I feel their meanings are presented stronger when all put together, as they form a complete, non-functional tea-set.

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Assessment 3, Final work 3

Kintsugi-mended teacup.

The exploration of Failure becoming beauty.

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Assessment 3, FInal work 2

Shoji-inspired dish.

The exploration of creativity in the Failure of purpose.

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Assessment 3, Final work 1

Bonsai-inspired teapot.

The exploration of creativity in the failure of gaining freedom.

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Symmetry And Silence In Round Mirror Reflections

by Sebastian Magnani

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ART: Dreamy Portrait Series by Antonio Mora

Spanish-based artist Antonio Mora, also known as mylovt, uses the web to craft his surreal works. He looks through online databases and finds images that he later combines into unconventional portraits.

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Failure States

FAILURE AND THE ARTIST: A GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM March 20, 2015 - March 21, 2015 Steinberg Auditorium “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” —Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

As Lisa Le Feuvre writes in her book Failure, “artists working today address failure in diverse ways. Whether artists are realizing works in the studio, tackling the notions of past art movements, or confronting community concerns, failure presents an opportunity for artistic progression and dialogue.”

Knowing that failure states is a working practise for Artists, it gives me peace and allows me the space to open and let creativity flow. I am so happy I learnt this!

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Class Experiment Log 2

2:42 students initiate heads down thumbs up pinching game  2:45 miroslava felt a cold finger 2:45 some students not participating, most are 2:46 Tarana thought someone was very quiet 2:47 giggling. Nolan has an idea of a game called “artist anonymous” that he invented 2:48 Lucy said we could talk about why we are here 2:49 students decide to play celebrity head but artist version. Students decide to use artists studied in narratives of modernity. Two girls get up. They are labelled Picasso and Monet.

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EXPERIMENT - Erasure and straws

For this experiment I implemented the technique of burning to cause erasure. This has created a really interesting and appealing aesthetic. Additionally, upon melting the straws, each of them began to mould and melt into one another. This erased what once was many straws and produced one singular object. 

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Assessment 3, Experiment 7 This experiment was in relation to my research on the shoji screens. I wanted to test out a couple of different materials to see which would be most likely to ‘fail’.  I made test squares out of paddle pop sticks and sticky tape, then glued over materials as though it were a screen.

Materials from left to right in the first image : rice paper, utoplex, fine net-like fabric (I’m not sure what it’s actually called, I just liked the feel when I was having a look around spotlight...) Since my concept for the final works was a tea set, I decided I should run them under water to see which would break the easiest because essentially, a tea set would need to be cleaned with water. Then I pressed against each material to see which would break the easiest. -> The net-like material would serve well as a sift, perhaps for use as a tea infuser? It didn’t break.

-> The utoplex absorbed the water quite well, and could withstand a slight pressure against it without breaking whilst wet. A little extra pressure and it began to tear, but it was still quite durable in my opinion.

->The rice paper soaked through pretty much instantly, and even the slightest of pressure cause my finger to pierce a hole into the surface... I knew rice paper would not hold out too well (as outlined in my research post), but I didn’t expect it to be that weak... It will be great to use for the final work, I think.

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Assessment 3, Experiment 6 This was going off my post on the art of bonsai, and is a follow up of my experimentation with wire. I wanted to figure out which would be a better method to use for my final work which would be a bonsai-inspired object, so I played around with wrapping wire around a vine/branch and bending it - this shaped really well. On the contrary, I also tried to wrap the vine/branch around the already-made  wire teapot from experiment 2. That didn’t look so great, so I think I’ll stick with the first method of winding wire around the plant.

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Assessment 3, Experiment 5

Against my better judgement, I tried out kintsugi on glass so that I could expand the materials I would possibly work with for the final works. My mum had a glass bowl she didn’t need so she let me smash it up. There were a lot of little shards, so I kind of already ruled out using glass for the final work to avoid any unwanted trips to the hospital...

As with experiment 3 and experiment 4, I glued the pieces together and sprinkles sparkles over it, then dug it into sand to dry. Unlike the plastic in experiment 3, the glass stuck quite well! However, it did seem to slide around a lot more than the ceramics, so it would take a lot more time to get it right if I used glass for the final project - but I still believe it’s too dangerous to use so I think I’ll stick to ceramics.

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Melting Ceramics by Livia Marin

When dropping a ceramic plate or cup we've all braced for the familiar sound of impact as the object explodes into a multitude of sharp fragments on the kitchen floor. Artist Livia Marin imagines a wholly different demise for ceramic bowls, cups and tea pots in this series of

“When dropping a ceramic plate or cup we’ve all braced for the familiar sound of impact as the object explodes into a multitude of sharp fragments on the kitchen floor. Artist Livia Marin imagines a wholly different demise for ceramic bowls, cups and tea pots in this series of work titled Nomad Patterns.

Inexplicably, each piece seems to melt onto a surface while strangely retaining its original printed pattern. The designs are actually a Willow Pattern motif, a pastiche of Chinese landscape decoration created by an English man in the 1790s “as if” it were Chinese. She adds via email that the objects “appear as staged somehow indeterminately between something that is about to collapse or has just been restored; between things that have been invested with the attention of care but also have the appearance of a ruin.” The 32 objects were on view at Eagle Gallery in London in 2012.”

Do these objects lose their function/purpose as they fail to perform as intended, or do they take on a new function in place of this failure? Does anything ever truly fail to function in some way, even if vague or obscure?

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THE NEW RULES OF PUBLIC ART

Rule no. 01

IT DOESN’T HAVE TO LOOK LIKE PUBLIC ART.

The days of bronze heroes and roundabout baubles are numbered. Public art can take any form or mode of encounter – from a floating Arctic island to a boat oven – be prepared to be surprised, delighted, even unnerved.

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some things I need to remind myself daily tbh