Cofa 1002

Kitty -Design & PR Media

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The Extreme Disengage

2015 UNSW Art & Design Assignment on alternative futures.

Link to the full publication.

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Assessment Three - The Extreme Disengage anti-radicalisation kit

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Our publication was modelled off of the anti radicalisation kit produced recently by the Australian Government. Unlike the original, we have taken the side of alternative thought and individuality within our nation: honouring it rather than being wary of and condemning it. Like the original document, we have invented case studies to prove our point.

By using the “issues” of imitation and inauthenticity, we have developed a series of images, objects, stories and videos surrounding the importance of remaining oneself despite an ever-present external influence from mainstream behaviours and beliefs. Our idea for this document came from the notion of the unfortunate “possible future” of Australia’s political and social environment becoming a fearful, totalitarian one.

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Experimental gifs - first one we are using - two were just exploring texture and movement

SORRY again first and last gifs obviously too big for tumblr to handle - have to wait for the publication to find out what they actually resemble

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rough - 3 pages from publication - next to them are pages from the actual radicalisation kit by the gov - replicating those nice cheesy corner cuts and tangerine font colour.

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These are some of the photos we took for our installation photos in our anti-radicalisation kit. We only chose a few choice selections for the publication, but thought you’d like to see more.

The steel-wool represents the grating and scratching of your skin when media messages bombard you, forcing you to consume their subliminal messages.

Gloves represents the many hands of the corporations and government that try and make us conform to their expectations, and losing our independence and alternate self-identity!

The spoons represent the constant spoon feeding of information we get, overwhelming us, and our choices.

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“Handing Karen Over (to the dark side)”

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My plasticine model in class today representing the satirical message the radicalisation kit warns, of stepping over the edge into extremism!!!! (music plays - dun dun duuuun) - representing by foot precariously dangling over some seriously evil spikes

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This is an experiment of making a gif from the footage we gathered the other day using steel wool, one of the materials I’m using as apart of our installation.

The steel wool represents messages that scratch at our skin, that “grate” us in an uncomfortable manner. We used this steel wool in an installation that hung in a doorway, this doorway the audience had to walk through, even though it forced you to interact with it, scratching at your hair and skin, entangling you. This idea is exploring the increasing power corporations will have have in the future, where we have no guard or barrier against the messages they send us, even if they do “grate” at our skin, we won’t have an defences against them. 

Apologies if it does not load for you, trying to figure out it’s file size, whilst still keeping some quality.

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I really love these instalments by Guerra de la Paz, particularly as they are repurposing clothing parts to make something that rebels against a particular industry, in this case, the military. The rainbow is also very relevant to my work, as I want to use doorways as the space my instalment will be hung, and the rainbow uses an arch to hang and dangle materials off it. My idea is to similarly layer plastic gloves and other materials in doorways to create a space a person must go through. This will symbolically represent how media corporations are gaining more power, and we are becoming more helpless in consuming the messages they send us. 

Indradhanush 

Atom Bomb

“The Cuban-born artist team Guerra de la Paz is composed of two members, Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz, and they use the meaning-charged material of recycled clothes to create striking sculptures and instalments that are packed with social and political commentary. 

Many of the issues that the artists address in their work have connections to both the present and the past. By using clothing, which tells the history of a person, they bridge the gap between modern culture and some of the historical symbols and images that are widely recognised in our culture, but are not always analysed. Powerful icons like rainbows and mushroom clouds are quickly seen as symbols for larger ideas, like LGBT issues and nuclear war. 

Rainbows are composed of all colours, and as a social symbol, the rainbow encourages the acceptance of all different lifestyles. By layering on the meanings inherent in used clothes, you have an instalment spreading a message of community and acceptance of every story, made of materials which are a record of personal histories. The boots at the ends of the rainbow may suggest that in order to achieve social change, everyone has to stand together and give support.”

http://inventorspot.com/articles/guerra_de_la_paz_wears_their_art_their_sleeve

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The Beclaimed Heart, 2015

Brienna Macnish, Robert Jordan, Clare McCracken

Plastic bags

I went to this installation at the Underbelly Arts Festival this August at Cockatoo Island and it was by far my favourite. Constructed in a warehouse, you stepped into a foreign world with strange colours, textures and sounds. But what struck me the most was how they could create such an impact by using thousands of plastic bags. While I don’t aim to create a different ‘world’ for this assessment, I like the idea of re-purposing garbage like items such as plastic gloves to create an artwork. While The Beclaimed Heart is an installation you theoretically want to walk into, I want to create theoretical situations you want to avoid, and not participate with. 

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HA Schult Trash People

I find this installation particularly intriguing to look at for my work, as the artist chose to make his work have an impact by the sheer repetition of his objects. I find that there being hundreds of these trash people, makes them more eerie, uncomfortable and a bit smothering. 

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For Assessment Three I am interested in staging a series of installations surrounding the future of media messages, and how they will take a strong foothold in smothering us with messages that we may not want to consume.

For the layout of the installation, I want to purely use the doorways of a space, as they are the spot the audience must participate and walk through. 

This is a basic draft of an idea, using plastic white gloves hanging within the doorway space. The pure number and repetition of the gloves represents the bombardment  of messages the media will continue to send us. Hung in a doorway, the person must “get” through it however they please, one option is to duck or slide beneath, this will take considerable effort. And seeing as its the future and people are becoming lazier and lazier they will likely not choose this option. The second option is to walk through. The gloves will slide over and cover your skin - unpleasant and smothering its the only real option. Walking through it represents society letting down their conscious barriers and absorbing the messages advertising, stakeholders and politicians inject into us. The plastic gloves are alluding to all the different hands these groups have that reach out to us, grabbing for our attention.

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“Without urgent, co-ordinated action by many stakeholders, the world is headed for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries which have been treatable for decades can once again kill.” - Dr Keiji Fukuda (World Health Organisation). 

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Beautiful Floral Installation Suspended in London’s Garden Museum

Rebecca Louise Law is known for her large scale installation of suspended dried flowers on site specific installations. Her work has been commissioned for iconic fashion brands such as Hermes and Gucci. The images seen above are taken from her installation at London’s Garden Museum for their Flowers & Fashion exhibition composed of 4,600 flowers. Ultimately the London-based artist hopes to combine her degree in fine art from Newcastle University along with her work as a florist into her art. 

via  Rebecca Louise Law

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For our group publication, we are thinking about each conducting a different art form that demonstrates a key element in the issues we see as the worlds futures. 

At the moment, I’m thinking about creating an installation that consumes the space, in order to bombard the audience with intense feelings and questions about the future.

I find this Floral Installation effective as it uses an overload of materials, but built in a structured pattern. This is effective, because it would bombard the audience with attention, but in a way they wouldn’t feel claustrophobic or cornered with too many messages.

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‘All the worlds future’ is going to be a continuation of mass production, waste and ephemeral trends. Artists from the group Guerra De La Paz explore the mass waste from the fashion industry. this work is an attempt to ‘uncreatively’ show the mass waste that is going to be present if the world continues to produce the way it does now. we have made a mass production of this work to show how everything is just produced in such a quantity that is unnecessary and eventually the original objective becomes lost. 

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Final work - Assessment Task 2

True News, 2015

Kitty Clement

Series of six A3 newspaper front pages, tea cup, plate