COFA 1002

Angela Yang

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Documentation of Assessment 2 Research Project : Portrait Conversations between person and person, objects and objects, viewer and room. Conversation made from Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979) and Love and Death (1975)

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Quick live recording of what inside of room installation is like  Portrait

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Mike Nelson cinematic inspirations for project

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Research Project Room Installation Photos Documentation - Portrait  "wall paper" is unkind with moire 

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Process documentation: Room influenced by Gregor Schneider

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Bibliography Research Project

Research: Art Gallery of NSW Archived Release. "Controversial artist Gregor Schneider creates a ‘haunting’ room." Art Gallery NSW. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Sept. 2014. <http://www.artgallery.nsw.goc.au/media-office/gregor-schneider/>.

Braungardt, Jurgen. "Sigmund Freud - Discontent in Civilization." Philosophical Explorations of the Human Mind. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Sept. 2014.<http://braungardt.trialectics.com/sciences/psychoanalysis/sigmund-freud/sigmund-freud-discontent-in-civilization/>.

Mike Nelson. TateShots. 2008. Interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sS4pS06Nek 

Schneider, Gregor, Tracey Emin, and William Kentridge. Parkett No. 63. Zurich: Parkett , 2002. Print.

The century of the self. Dir. Adam Curtis. Perf. Martin Bergmann, Ann Bernays, Edward Bernays . BN Pub., 2006. Film.

Dialogue/ Conversation utilises snippets from: Love and death. Dir. Woody Allen. Perf. Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Georges Adet . MGM Home Entertainment, 2000. Film.

Manhattan. Dir. Woody Allen. Perf. Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway. MGM Home Entertainment, 2000. Film.

Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsC4zTr77oI

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Progress/ experiment: found the coat and built from there.  // this haunting or alien thing has been sitting in my living room for a week 

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Maurizio Cattelan, inspiration for assessment 2 

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Deconstructing Masculinity & Manhood with Michael Kimmel @ Dartmouth College

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Final poster

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Body as a Desiring Machine: A curious identical treatment of body and machine in 2 posters which influenced my final poster. 

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I was looking at my poster so far and it brought to mind the work of Stelarc. His works focus on extending the body with technology. 

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Some tangible processes. Here are some somewhat failed works. However there were elements I liked and kept.

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Mind-map from very early on.

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Annotated Bibliography 4

Articles and Blogs: Desire as Something Concrete? 

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/feb/03/dopamine-the-unsexy-truth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgdGFDYUQeA http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/07/what_is_dopamine_love_lust_sex_addiction_gambling_motivation_reward.html

Back in the article by Christian Hubert, he mentions that "They (Deleuze and Guattari) describe the breast as a machine, the mouth as a machine coupled to it, and are at pains to point out that their use of this term is not metaphorical, because for them the essence of both man and nature is production".

It made me wonder how concrete desire could be since I’d been dealing with it so abstractly up until this point. I began to delve into a much more scientific discourse. A friend of mine studying med sci mentioned an experiment whereby the stimulation of the ventral striatum (an area in the brain which releases dopamine) in rats can force them to do almost anything the scientists desire; including starving themselves. This is a really scary prospect of extreme desire- infatuation, obsession and addiction. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that simply teaches the body to take the necessary steps to attain what is desired.

I think it’s interesting when we combine the scientific and the philosophical perspectives. Again the entire body is a machine that takes in information from the outside world (social machine) and processes it in the mind. 

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Annotated Bibliography 3

The Applicant - Sylvia Plath

First, are you our sort of a person? Do you wear A glass eye, false teeth or a crutch, A brace or a hook, Rubber breasts or a rubber crotch,

Stitches to show something’s missing? No, no? Then... http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/applicant 

I thought this poem successfully captures the interaction between an advertisement and its audience. I was lead to this after watching the Adam Curtis’ The Century of the Self (2002) which Tom blogged. It also gave me insights into the way advertising really takes full advantage of our incessant desiring. The body thus renders itself as a desiring machine fuelled on empty rhetoric. I really like how the above poem exhibits fragments of the body as materials permanently connected to the social machine (the interviewer). I tried to recycle these visuals in my poster.

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Annotated Bibliography 2

Online articles:

http://www.christianhubert.com/writings/desiring_machines.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiring-production

I found this short article by Christian Hubert which explains the key concepts in  Anti-Oedipus, volume 1 fairly clearly. I love the idea that “desire produces reality”. Indeed, we and most of humanity seek to create what we construct in our subconscious first “we are masters of our world”. This “revolutionary” quality of desire makes me think that without desire man-kind would: a. not be where it is today- since no one would able to envision and take necessary steps to create b. simply stop 

My first poster idea was to depict a futuristic world that oscillates between the surreal and real (jumping between a unconscious vision and a physical construction). It'd be one that the current one anticipates, since desire always deals with anticipation of what is to come. This construction almost always occurs first within our individual psyches.