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MCA Visit Task

Documentation

We’ve already emphasised the importance of using documentation to track the development of your process. This week we’re pushing this further to think about how documentation can be used creatively in its own right. We're also considering the concepts that arise from the act of documenting. Does the documentation change the thing being documented? Does documentation have a relationship with time + memory?

Activity: In small groups, choose a work from the Biennale of Sydney or the MCA Collection. Experiment with documenting the work in an unconventional way to produce a new outcome. The aim is to use documentation creatively as a form of 'translation’, rather than to reproduce the original work as it is. Think about other mediums besides photography e.g. sound, performance, light, measurement, drawing, text, talk, video etc. (60 mins)

Editing

Selection, arrangement, deletion, addition etc. are fundamental processes in art and design. How is selection part of your creative process? What happens when we add or remove something from our work? How can bringing multiple elements together create new conceptual or aesthetic relationships?

Activity: Individually, select 3-5 different works you think are related conceptually or materially. Isolate and capture one element from each. Then edit these separate elements together into a new work. (30 mins)

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TRANSFORMATIONS. Levent Dilsiz

Initial engagement with box was playful, utilising colour, attempting to multiply the number of boxes, using glue, and twine to bind. Disinterest in this transformation catalysed ripping of boxes into smaller pieces which were then bound by twine, a medium and method I enjoyed during my first experimentation. The result: highly textured, sculptural, waste-made, yet remaining was twelve small cardboard pieces that were physically unbindable. An attempt to create the same textured sculpture on a larger scale using garbage had disappointing results. Hence, after revisiting documentation, small cardboard pieces were discovered, and manipulated into digital collages, firstly shaping letters, then emulate brand logos due to interest in the intersection of ‘left overs’ with materialism. This inspired the collage of the Louis Vuitton monogram, the selection of this pattern as a result of its being an icon of luxury brand culture which perpetuates an unrelenting materialist philosophy. The irony of its assemblage from small cardboard scraps was initially in a criticism of increasingly mass produced exorbitant luxury fashion. Upon completion, the rough, frayed, disjointed, textural qualities of the image appear as if the iconic monogram is, disintegrating, rotting, suggesting the transience of materialist trends, stating that they will inevitably disintegrate.

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More inductions

Dear students,

The 3D Hub have scheduled additional Basic Metalwork inductions on the following dates:

Friday 23rd March – 14.30pm-17.30pm

Thursday 29th March – 14.30pm-17.30pm

Wednesday 11th April – 9.30am-12.30pm

Please register to attend through Eventbrite at the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/basic-metalwork-induction-semester-1-2018-tickets-32366996558

These will be the last Basic Metalwork inductions offered this semester before we move on to more intermediate and advanced equipment. Please be aware that you must have completed the Basic inductions before you can progress to intermediate or advanced equipment.

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EXPERIMENTATION FIVE

After my previous experiment tracing brand logos with the leftover rips of cardboard, I thought it would be an interesting evolution to digitally collage an entire monogram/pattern of a brand. I chose the Louis Vuitton classic monogram as it is one of cultures most easily recognisable materialist symbols. Its construction out of scraps subverts the patterns associations with status, an interesting idea worth further exploration.

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MCA Visit week 5

Next Week (Week 5 the 28th of March) we are visiting the

 Museum of Contemporary Art

We will meet out the front of the gallery (Circular Quay side near the water)

My 9-12pm class will meet at 9.45am

My 12-3pm class will meet at 12.30pm

We will be doing a group exercise in the gallery and I will be taking a roll (the class is not optional!)

 Here is a map: 

https://goo.gl/maps/yCjQKjwQkT52 

Address is: 140 George St, The Rocks NSW 2000 (but we will meet on the other side of the building)

You will have enough time to get back to UNSW in time for classes

Brook Andrew, Tombs of Thought II (Earth), 2016–17 

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FINAL WORK : ‘transformations’ assessment

Like my previous experiments stated, my main concept for this assessment is societies outlook on mental illness and hopefully changing the way we see mental health. There is no doubt that mental health is treated differently to physical health. The negative stigma has built up for years and years and its only know we are slowly starting to change our opinions. I’m sick of the negative societal perceptions. For my final assessment piece, I decided to photograph a light box with a series of sentences in which depict many mental illness sufferer’s thoughts towards societies ignorance and some commonly heard ‘advice’ to us sufferers to literally ‘shine some light’ on this issue.

“just be happy” – ah yes Carol (I don’t actually know a Carol , please no offence) let me just tell the chemical imbalance in my brain that.

“get some sunshine” – because your vitamin D bullshit will miraculously cure my fear to speak to people.

“it’s in your head” – well you’re not wrong. However, your implication that I’m simply making up my inability to do anything remotely productive is so rude.

‘I’m not okay/I’m ok’ – have you ever asked some one how they are and they said ok? Well ever stop and think maybe that’s just a facade to hide the fact they aren’t in fact okay at all, because for some reason it’s become socially unacceptable to tell people when you’re struggling.

‘living hell’ – mental health isn’t just simple sadness or ‘craziness’, it’s a complex part of reality full of multiple personalities, irrational/crippling fears, panic attacks, heavy darkness and a lot more... it’s a living hell.

Not many people realise that mental health and physical health are both in fact the same thing. Ironically it is this mis understanding that has prevented mental health from gaining societal acceptance in the same way that physical health has. Mental illnesses are as real as physical illnesses, they are just more challenging to understand.

For each of my experiments I attempted to manifest this lack of understanding and lack of trying.

I started simple, a spur of the moment idea that led me to creating a small box out of card board and tape and destroying it... this represents our ignorance towards mental health. metaphorically locking it in a box and throwing away the key. This concept slowly progressed deeper and deeper from ignored surroundings (experiment 2) to the mind of a sufferer (experiment 3) and now this... a vague look into the world of living with a mental illness.

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Experiment 3 : THIS IS MY MIND

THIS IS MY MIND.

It may have frayed edges and loose ends. It may be a big tangled mess of mind boggling depression and anxiety. It's definitely not perfect. So why tell me it should be?

This box of string, is my mind.

And I'm not ashamed.