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The desire for perfection, the desire to be the very best. Picking the best from many. Through sacrificing everything. Such as health, their bodies, their surroundings. Missing the beauty of imperfection.

We decided to show this through fruits, picking, picking, picking until the final last bit. Out of the whole selection of fruits, only a small tiny bit was used while the rest is wasted. This is to show that humans are sacrificing things to present themselves as a perfect human in front of others. This happens to a lot of youtube vloggers and Instagram models. Where on camera they present themselves their very best but off camera their shady dark side is revealed. They also sacrifice their body, such as plastic surgery and implants. Also, a lot of people show their pretend best self in front of others to build rapport. Everyone does this to get others to like them, especially on first impressions as you never get a second chance to a first impression.

Basically, this film is a metaphor to what the current generation is thinking like, presenting their pretend best self in front of others.

Reinnovate

So filming in kitchens are out of the window due to not being able to film in the kitchens for many reasons. So we still went with the idea of nitpicking in foods and wasting a lot of food. So we decided to go with fruit plates.

Feedback

After presenting our idea to our class, our tutor gave us an idea to try to do something based on food wastage.

From that, we were thinking of western high-class kitchens where they waste food to create something that looks good on the plate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cPOZ_BFKSg

I was thinking of reaching out to my chef friends and see if we could record in their restaurant to get some of this footage and mix it in with us trying to cook something that’ll waste as much as we can.

7 deadly sins

From taotie, I saw a potential for 7 deadly sins: gluttony. Which invoked the idea that we could base off our even on 7 deadly sins which also fits under the slide of “desire.” Some inspirational artists are:

Dario Escobar’s Golden Mcdonald Cup

Another inspiration is from Emilie Clark Gluttony

Trying to find the slide

After thinking about what we’d like to do and how we’d like to do it we have to think about the content. I first suggested for Desire to do something Adam and Eve-esk for the desire to seek for knowledge along with something like the desire for power, money, etc. Liger gave a suggestion that we should try to base our event on myths or legends which later kat bought up taotie.

The taotie is a motif commonly found on Chinese ritual bronze vessels from the Shang and Zhou dynasty. The design typically consists of a zoomorphic mask, described as being frontal, bilaterally symmetrical, with a pair of raised eyes and typically no lower jaw area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taotie

So basing off of that we wanted to do something that goes along the side of eating stuff. Or something eating something. Mainly because we wanted to go out and eat stuff.

Start for Assignment 3

We started with trying to choose a style we’d like to present this assignment with. We settled with a video format on one of the slides, however, we didn’t know if we wanted to do a story-like film or a crazy random one.

After discussions, we decided that we wanted to tackle a chronological format film. Another technique we were thinking about using was using sketchbooks with words as subtitles while the language of the film would be in Chinese.

This was to include collaboration and glitch in a sense. Collaboration as everyone would have their own book to flip to their own voice, it’s as if everyone is translating themselves. Glitch is that the subtitles are actually not in the film but in real life which is different to what subtitles originally are.

How does collaborations create communities in art and design? What challenges do collaborative approaches face and what are some of the solutions. I directed my final work to a specific part of the questions, what challenges does it face. I replied back with collaborations may create isolation. As stated in the research previously, collaborations that are created due to certain skill requirements would strongly support my idea of collaborations creating isolation. I want to people see the other side of the coin, where the collaboration does not work, where there is no collaboration. Where people are left out of a collaboration. People only see the end result, the final product of a collaboration but not when it doesn’t work out or members are cut out of the collaboration due to the lacking of skills or meet certain other requirements. Just like how people only hear success stories but no one takes notice of failures. Failure is the mother of success. I want to broaden other people’s minds but showing the negative side with this work.

I chose to express isolation in collaboration through something I can relate to personally. I did not want to make it super obvious to the audience, I want them to look, then think, think why does this work belong to the collaboration question. What is he showing, so I used something that I can’t do but my all my friends can which is drinking. I want to use drinking as a metaphor for a collaboration that needs a specific skill to be allowed to be included, which I lacked. But not only that, I want to emphasis the isolation so I used colour and technique to separate me and my friends. The composition, choice of colour and styles help create separation which allows the audiences to see the distinct differences.

Collaborations may create isolations. But does that mean we are not friends? Does that mean just because you are separated into smaller groups that you are not all artists? Just because they were sent to design this product while you are not, does that mean you are not in the same company? Yes collaborations may create isolations, but is it really an issue?

Composition

I want to use composition to emphasis my idea of isolation, I had to look up some references.

So the main focus of the person that is being isolated is mainly in the center of the work, usually more distant from the viewers so it creates the artwork and audience relationship.

I looked through some more sites that gave some more information on compositions in art.:

https://www.thoughtco.com/elements-of-composition-in-art-2577514

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_(visual_arts)

With these, I created some examples:

The first one uses the common idea of perspective creating distance between the subject and the audience. Where I have myself sit in the front and be at the back and use perspective to create distance. The second is another perspective shot but me in the front with my back facing the audience while my friends are further away, it was to show the vulnerability of me, who is isolated. The last idea was to parody Leonardo da Vinci‘s Last Supper, with me in the centre and my friends more distanced from me on each side to show isolation.

Build up

I want to use an activity that my friends do that I sit aside in to be a metaphor for collaboration creates isolation. And that activity just happens to be drinking, I am allergic to alcohol which means when they drink I just have to sit aside and look at them somewhat enjoying themselves. I chose to do it this way so it is not as obvious when you look at the artwork, I want to deceive my audiences first, but as they look closer they’ll understand and get the real meaning behind it.

I want to create an artwork that is solely focused on isolation.

Change

The previous idea was scratched because I did not like the focus I was going down, I didn’t like to challenge the idea and limitations of a collaboration. I couldn’t connect to it personally, it’s mainly because my friends are too busy and objected to my requests...

So I want to go down a new path, a new approach to the questions.

Collaborations my create Isolation.

This is mainly directed at formal collaborations where specific skills are needed, however, it may occur in informal collaborations too. An example for formal is a design firm hiring designers with a specific set of skill, where your friends meet the requirements while you don’t, this creates isolation, the rest of your friends gets to be part of something together while you’re left behind. An example for informal could be a group of friends trying to create a school band and need specific instruments however you do not play any of those instruments and you just have to sit in the crowd and see them perform on the stage.

I’d like to lead on this idea of collaboration leads to isolation, as it is not as generalised and broad as my previous artwork. I also feel like I am able to relate to it personally and can create a piece of work that revolves around my experiences.

Orchestrating a Master PLAN

My first idea was to go Jeff Koon style, my idea but another person’s sweat and tears. I was going to ask my musician friends to write a music piece to my requirements and play it for me, to challenge what is collaboration, just like how Jeff Koon does most of his work. Is it their art or is it mine? Is it Jeff Koon’s art or is it the artist who made its art? This directs are the question “what challenges do collaborations face”. The ownership of the artwork, is it because Jeff Koon has the backing of his fame that he can just get others to create his works or is it the idea that is his art? If I were to do something like this, do I call it my own work or “OUR” work?

Formal vs Informal

Through looking at different kinds of collaborations I can say there are 2 main categories of collaboration, formal and informal (terms created by me). Formal is usually where artists come together under special requirements such as the skills they possess, whereas informal is more like friends coming together and creating an artwork because they just want to have fun together creating something they envisioned.

Some examples of formal collaborations are design firms hiring designers to create a team to design product(s), where they need designer with specific set of skills for this team to function, such as being a graphics designer or proficient with textiles, able to use certain tools/software or be able to think similarly with the rest of the team, some examples are:

https://www.seek.com.au/job/37269951?type=standard

https://www.seek.com.au/job/37266347?type=standout

Another type of formal collaborations is music, orchestras, etc. Where musicians collab with each other to create music and songs. The formal side could be for a band or orchestra hiring for a specific instrument or skill, such as songwriting the more business like this gets the more formal the collaboration become. This can be seen is most kpop bands/ groups where artists and dancers are hired then be placed in groups of different people to collaborate together and create songs and performances. https://morethangangnam.wordpress.com/2015/07/04/the-path-to-becoming-an-idol-part-1-recruiting-process-and-training/

On the other hand, there is an informal side to that where are a group of friends who play instruments can collaborate together to create songs and music.

Informal is very easy to explain, it’s not about the money in this case, you the artist get to choose who the be with who you’d like to work with. You get more freedom. Such as @kawanocy and @orangesekaii, husband and wife (instagram).

Collaboration, what does it mean?

collaboration

noun

1.the action of working with someone to produce something." he wrote a book in collaboration with his son" synonyms: cooperation, alliance, partnership, participation, combination, association, concert; More

2.traitorous cooperation with an enemy." he faces charges of collaboration" synonyms: fraternizing, fraternization, colluding, collusion, cooperating, cooperation, consorting, sympathizing, sympathy; conspiring"Salengro had been accused of collaboration with the enemy"

So from the meaning of collaboration used in the question “How do collaborations create communities in art and design? What challenges do collaborations approaches face and what are some solutions? I’d say it’d be the first meaning, where people work together to create something.

Collaboration in art can come in different types, collaboration in culture, such as Olympic Rings by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Where the mix in culture is the collaboration.

^ Olympic Rings

Some collaborations are created due to the skills each artist holds, the most common examples are from music where each musician play their part of the piece to create a symphony. Or small artist collabing with a famous artist to reach out to people and earn themselves some of that reputation. Such as Martin Garrix & Tiësto - The Only Way Is Up this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AewNd29wRUM

Critique

My poster assignment lacked something, though I tried to answer the given question with that idea I feel it’s too generalised. While looking at the works of my classmates, everyone just answer to set words not the question, collaboration, rebellion, binary etc. I want to search deeper and create something more in-depth rather than this is collaboration or this shows collaboration. As my tutor critiqued that I lacked research for my last assignment, which I need to improve on for sure.

It's on luxinder.tumbler.com

The final poster is black drawing on somewhat white paper which is made from ripped up newspaper. I chose to show collaboration by mixing materials together and creating an artwork with that. I use the making of the poster as a metaphor to show collaboration. The paper is mixed by different types of the newspaper, the spray paint is compressed air + paint, the glue is PVA mixed with water, the ink I used to paint is ink mixed with water. I tried to follow a Chinese theme in collaboration with western equipment. The grasshopper and 2601 is a parody of cicada 3301. As the two insects travel in groups and alone respectively. Cicada 3301 is an online riddle that was supposed to be solved individually however due to human nature, people collaborated with each other to solve it, hence why I switched the insect to a grasshopper. The number 2601 is Australia Day which people come together and celebrate and connect, similar to collaboration in a way. My choice of using black ink only on somewhat white paper is to show that collaborations at first seem black and white where each person have their own individual roles, however, as you look deeper you’d see colour and grey area. I tried to be as vague as I can with this because not everyone will understand which is intended, it was supposed to be a specific group, similar to collaborations. Where people group up with similar people which segregates each other into communities. This can cause a problem as not many people are connecting. To solve this, people have to be like little grasshoppers venturing out soaring through the sky and seek opportunities.

The base of the poster is made from ripped up newspaper, which is stuck together with masking tape. Other layers on top are stuck on through mixing PVA glue with water. This creates my basis for my poster. The second photo is where I used a white primer to paint my A2 paper white I deliberately made it a rough paint so the colour of the newspaper can show through. I then painted a grasshopper using a ink and water mix, it’s to parody Cicada 3301, I used 2601 instead as it is Australia Day, where everyone comes together.

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