#development3

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Development 3

Thinking about materials here and tie ins to the theme. I still feel that there is a deeper place to go with connection to materials used and the brief.

“A seemingly everyday piece of furniture is in fact made of two destroyed tables joined together and covered with a whitish veil of fabric, presumably the orphan's original tunic.  Upon even closer inspection, hundreds of small human hairs appear to be the thread that is attaching the tunic to the table.  Huyssen equates the structure of the tables to the body.  “If the tunic is like a skin…then the table gains a metaphoric presence as body, not now of an individual orphan but an orphaned community.” quote from Doris Salcedo’s piece Unland: The Orphan’s Tunic.

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Development 3 Display of Objects

Been thinking about how to display pieces. Something about displaying them as though they are expensive objects. Under glass cover or on elaborate podiums. Exploring other options.

Cy Twombly Sculpture MOMA - podiums that are made as part of the work.

Glass covered podiums. Or clothes covering glass podiums so you have to peek under to see, adding a mystery and an importance.

Jars and boxes

Wrapping the objects

Link to Judith Scott:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/opinion/an-artist-who-wrapped-and-bound-her-work-and-then-broke-free.html

Link to Christo and Jeanne Claude site:

https://christojeanneclaude.net/projects/wrapped-objects-statues-and-women?view=info

Cornelia Parker below

Urs Fischer - Liked that they made the pieces in situ with live models they studied taking part in the exhibition aswell.. “setting up a relationship between real life and the study“ Display boxes/tables etc feel as important as the sculptures.

Untitled 2011

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Development 3  - wood prints

This is the information attached to the Bakelite object. Age 45-85 years.

Marking sticks - 1 each for years you knew person..how long they lived.

Connected by line - large scale..forest of connections community.

Trying to give a sense of the prints in situ with a bit of scale

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Development 3 - concept album visuals

Experiments with visuals for front of album cover. Anticipate that these will be pinned to the wall and headphones will be attached with the audio files.

Back of album...beginning to think about how I might use the words.

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Development 3 - concept album

Clarification of where I am at so far.

I have a massive amount of information, which I am now beginning to hone in on.

I am thinking an installation piece that uses large visuals along with the idea of a concept album for each ‘object/story’. This will involve recording either the 3 words and played over individual headphones or actually be ‘the story’ behind the object read by each participant. In terms of format I have looked at the form of ballads (see below) so I might base the audio on one of these forms...repeating.

Concept Album - Research

Concept album - A single central narrative or theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, or lyrical.

An album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually. (Each aspect of the ‘album’ is the answer to the questions from the study and will be titled so). I want the exhibition to be a cohesive collection of stories, universal to us all, which really highlights the value of what is really precious to us in our society.

Ballads

Ballads are often 13 lines with an ABABBCBC form, consisting of couplets (two lines) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables. Another common form is ABAB or ABCB repeated, in alternating 8 and 6 syllable lines.

The term is also associated with the concept of a stylized storytelling song or poem.

Woody Guthrie - seen as the first concept album - photos below