Lectures and Workshops

My name is Jade and I am a contemporary art student. This is my blog on the lectures and workshops I have attended throughout my time at university.

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Rick Poyner - Writing with pictures

Visual image visual culture

Writing and fine art

Word and Image

Interested in photography went to USA 1978 tour greyhound bus 20 years old

Picture making is now easy and cheap

Took pictures sparingly, money, special occasions

Herbert spencer tome 1961 fascinated in lettering wall is broken up ancient lettering to modern logos

Collected imagery then began to write about it

Surface wreckage

Jean boudrillard photographer

Interested in surfaces such as rust had a quality when developed

Temporary srhrines accidental 

Distraction fascinated him

Drawn to same imagery barrels after 20 years

Seabold books

More  interested in photos from other countries, more interesting because its different, Avignon images with posters mish mash on lamppost

Street signs

Collisions of die rent materials finish visual chaos visual pollutuion someone should come in tidy it up and make it to a system

Smooth Seoul over

Visual fascinated odd occurs through chance collage process

Power in a camera

Compact camera arcades

Designers picture boxes in boxes

iPad advert shows his image

Shopping consumerism image is emptied out alert at all time to picture making possibilities

Urban explorers

Eye magazine

Design observer

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Art Reading/Art Writing: Sarah Lucas Common Gestures at the Freud Museum

Reader in cultural Theory ·      Making and Writing ·      Painting history writing painting ·      Common gestures class acts, Richard Billingham, Sarah Lucas, Tracy Emmin ·      Beyond The pleasure Principle, Freud Museum 2000 (Sarah Lucas) ·      Things that link them, smoking and chair. ·      Museum is a conversion of his home. ·      Bourgeoisie Setting ·      Installed women’s briefs all over the masculine furniture of Freud’s home. ·      Underwear was brand new, how does this differ to Emmin, which were her own sheets etc… ·      Truth to Materials - Beginning of industrialisation ·      Henry Moore believed that stone had a life of its own, good sculpture, had to take into account the material and what form it has. ·      Sexuality in the Field of Vision ·      Psychoanalysis on Leonardo Da Vinci’s images on sex. ·      Freud took spectacle out of women by bringing them into his home to talk, rather than exhibiting them, however did not give power back to women. ·      Priere de Toucher (Please Touch) 2000 ·      Title and piece homage to Duchamp

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Destroy all Books by David Toop (Lisa Stansbie)

-Interested in looking at John Latham to do with objects and filmwork, her own work uses objects within a film

-David t talks about work but moves on how the sound affects the listener

-Making of objects and documenting it through video, time based

-‘Pages are turned when the cameras not running’ defining the process what fills the gaps, wholes nature of a creative process.

-Film maker is selective, how you are selevtive

-Books are a different experience than reading the internet, we are sceptical of the internet, books are to be trusted

-Internet is more convenient less people reading books ‘ death of the books’

-Books have sacred quality, some artists have destroyed books, cutting up pages

-Glasgow Central Station set up exhibition on someone who were making small pieces of art work made out of books.

Koagular – Free Programmer download you put in a picture and it gives you a sound

-Sound is an important part of the film- lisa realised that sound was an after thought within her work

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Species of Spaces 'The apartment'

The function of a room is more important why don't we have bigger bathrooms than bedroom? As we use the bathroom more. Looking at the use of the space No place uninhabitable, is there such place as a place that doesn't exist. Imagination is still a place as it is within you. Something has to be present to show there is nothing, always something missing in an absence. Airports like mini comunity as they have everything to suite ones needs. But also Like in the film the terminal, people can be cast out of the community by the leaders like in real life. Imagine an apartment as a junk room? Functionless space, serving nothing, relating to nothing. It is in our nature to decorate, even birds decorate their nests in order to attract other birds, are we the same? It makes me think of romcoms where A person takes another person back to their home and it is a complete mess, therefore puts the other person off that person. The home Is kind of a reflection of the person and no one wants to be seen a utilatarian, no personality or spirit. Doors we protect ourselves, we barricade ourselves in and separate. I put a picture up on the wall then forget there is a wall. - in my own experience in my bedroom there was a empty wall across from the bed, but wasn't enough space to pictures on it, so was forced to paint stripes on it as the emptiness just didn't look right, it gave me nothing to look at.

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Reading Group - Objects of Desire

People have souvineers for many reasons, it is most used to evoke a childhood memory, including scrapbooks and photo albums

'Nostalgia cannot be obtained without loss' So for example, the loss of childhood provokes a sense of holding onto it with items such as toys which were important to ones self as a child.

In Gullivers Travels he collects items from his experiance of travelling such as "his majestys picture at full length" The souvineers serve as evidence of Gullivers experiance and measurements of his own scale. These souvineers function to serve narative.

This I can relate most to, as most people like to get souvineers when on holiday, I like to take pictures and bring back objects such as key chains, clothes, mugs, cups, orniments etc... These serve as evidence but also to remind myself of whats real.

As civilised societys come to depend more and more upon standardized mass produces artifacts, the distinctive classes, families, and individuals disapears and the importation of foreign exotic arts increases to meet the demand for distinctivness, especially for the snob market. One gains prestige by association with these objects, whether they are souvineers or expensive importa there is a cachet connected witht the international travel exploration multiculturalism etc. There is the nostalgic inpout of the handmade in a "plastic world"

This is an interesting quote as relates both to a recent essay on mass production and appropriation as well as my current project ancient egyptians and the modern world of prestigous objects.

Souvinners are shaped by the expectation of the tourist market - for example tourists expect to see their own languange on mugs when buying them. English tourists would expect to see a mug saying 'The Dominican Republic' rather than 'Republica Dominica'.

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Reading Group - TV Makeover

Is the relationship between Art and Television Recipicle?

Yes- Adverts such as Toshiba appropriates artists work in order to advertise their product. This work for the company as it makes then look cultural but also works for the artist as they get there work shown to large audience.

No - BBC 4 used to show artist videos but not so much anymore, television has abandoned artist videos as people arn’t as intereseted as they can select what they want to watch on television in terms of a large number of chanels, on demand and able to fast for adverts and things they don’t want to watch.

Chanel 4 was made in 1982 in order to involve marginalised audiences such as immigrants, youth, welsh and northern audiences. Further to encourage ‘innovation and experiment’

This drew alot of footage from independant directors including artists Artists have stopped trying to change television, for good reason. Early hopes for it was that it would create a visual platform, but was used just as means of filling up airtime on the cheap.