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Assessment 3 Final Video

Concept Statement Assessment 3

Experimenting with controlled creativity, how people express themselves through the clothes they wear but the producer is actually controlling the consumers creative outlet

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Rado Kirov: Bulgarian sculptor who manipulated metal. i liked the idea of confusing the audience and putting the art into day-to-day furniture.

Planning for Assessment 3.

Following on from the idea and theme in my group’s assessment 2 “Contemplation and Experimentation” I want to work with the idea we found interesting of involving the audience in the artwork. I’m really interested in the idea of adult colouring books and the ability to make someone feel creative for achieving something when they’ve only copied someone else’s work and followed instructions. The idea that they can now appreciate this work because they have “made it”.

For this I have two main ideas that I will work and experiment with:

Creating an instructional clothing line with instructions on it such as “cut here, paint here, rip here” to turn the consumer into the producer and make the wearers feel as though they have created an original work. This could be shown by exhibiting the clothing line I create or through photographs with the wearer’s and their own clothes.

My second idea is to put paint in every day household objects, dishwashing detergent, shampoo and conditioner, toothpaste, window cleaner. By forcing art into everyone’s household lives to forcefully make them view and appreciate artwork. This is similar to assessment 2 when we forced the audience to be part of the artwork. This I would present in a video.

Experiments to come...

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Concept statement for ADAD Assessment 2

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ADAD1001 Violette Kirton, Henrietta Jackson, Mikaela Davis, Alice Cherry, Kate Aubin Krasa

Video Piece for ADAD Assessment 2

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Creating the work

A week ago we decided to commence our creative process.

The work involved getting our whole group together, so we decided to get started before the easter break so that we would not be short for time on editing and evolving the work further.

The performance went well and we were very happy with the response from our audience.

We each invited as many people as we could to Henri’s house and hosted a reincarnation of Niki de St Phalle’s work. We invited our guests to watch the original work with an icy cold beverage to make them feel right at home. We observed their reactions , comparing them to the footage of St Phalle’s original audience. As expected, our audiences response was underwhelmed and not excited, surprised or impressed, like that of the audience in the original shooting performances.

In search for a reaction from our audience, we asked them to line up outside and close their eyes. We shot at them, like Niki did, with paint, light, balloons, and loud music. And BAM, they were shocked.

This reaction is interesting. although they were shocked and being assaulted, they were laughing, continued drinking and having questionable fun.

Turning the audience into the art work, seemed the only way to create a buzz and receive a certain response these days. An interesting comment on our society and culture. The amount of information we consume makes it very hard to be shocked in a world like ours.

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The effects of turning the audience into the artwork... We supplied our guests with clothing as we knew it would be ruined and can then use these clothes as part of our finished piece

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Editing our reinterpretation of video Nike de Saint Phalle. After showing our audience the video we realised they were not shocked by it in the slightest. We then took them outside, instructed them to shut their eyes and attacked them with paint. This caused a reaction. In order to do this we HAD to make the audience become the artwork.

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We are responding to Niki Saint de Phalle’s aim to cause a scandal and achieve this in a relevant way to our time. As our audience is so comfortable with the uncomfortable in our time to develop a shock factor the work has to directly affect them as opposed to being a separate entity. So we have decided to turn the work upon them, and splatter them with paint how Niki Saint de Phalle splatters her artwork with paint. To gauge a reaction the audience must become the artwork... We want the paint to look gross, so dark browns and reds. In the same way Niki doesn’t know how the paint will splatter we do not know how the audience will react and so the outcome will be unplanned and surprising.

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For our group assessment myself, Violette and Miki and chosen to use Niki de Saint Phalle’s Introspections and Reflections as our basis example.

Our main idea is to recreate this video so that it is a relevant reflection of our time. The audience is shocked and in awe of this performance piece, intently watching her every move.

But what if this were to be demonstrated to the generation which is rarely shocked? To begin with we want to depict a shocking performance art to a disinterested audience who is focused purely on their own lives, checking their phones, checking their watches to reflect on our world today...

Concept statement: Anatomy of a box

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Final Artwork: Anatomy of a box

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3rd Experiment: Video of deconstruction of a box

For my 3rd experiment I decided to film the deconstruction process to create a dissection video of the box, demonstrating how once the box was taken apart, it couldn’t be put back together the same way. This also highlights the different components of the box, preventing the audience from viewing the box as a whole as they might normally and forcing them to perceive it of a joining of objects. This experiment is a result of both my first one where i took apart the boxes for a whole and the 2nd one where I realised the components were useless when tried to put them back together.

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2nd Experiment... using the deconstructed parts I tried to reconstruct a box. Aside from failing dismally at holding any structure it didn't hold any interest for me either, meaning for my final one I will progress onto a video of the deconstruction process.

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Making a chair unlike a chair

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