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Concept Statement

Our artwork aims to explore the desire to escape mundane life through creating a calming environment. We have combined this with the desire for food (for survival and for pleasure) especially when hungry or tempted by our visual, auditory and olfactory senses.

Our work is very heavily focused on our desire and consumption of food. For our final work our group decided to create a desire fulfilling event which embodied a relaxing environment through the use of food. Our work intercepts the audience’s expectation by creating a soothing and natural soundscape which is interrupted by footage of food causing the audience to realise that they are listening to the sounds of meals being made rather than a rainforest escape. We took everyday mundane tasks or actions to juxtapose the assumption of sound with the real life actions creating them.

For our work we took inspiration from food and and soundscape artists. Cevdet Erek and Samson Young were key references to our work because in each of the video clips, we created sounds with the ingredients, that without the visual aid would be mistaken for a different scene. For example the sound of frying salmon can be mistaken for the sound of rain.

Our final work physically layers this desire for food on top of each other, displaying various foods and noises over different screens and the sounds are also layered, providing a crucible of this desire. To create movement in our our event the visuals of the video start at different intervals, encouraging the audience to turn their heads as each video starts.

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References

Rirkrit Tiravaniji:

Untitled (lunch box):

In this work Rirkirt selects visitors to share a meal in a gallery space. The meal that they share is Thai takeaway, consisting of pork satay, green papaya salad, chicken yellow curry and rice; the choice of sharing Thai food is related to his culture – having a Thai background- and having people to shape and change a space through interactions between one another, like a family sharing food at dinner.

This work intentionally brings people together, and is a reconceptualization of his work in 1996 that holds the same name.

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/rirkrit-tiravanija/

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/65545

Untitled 2017 (nothing rhymes with lobscouse, labskaus, lapskaus, lobskovs):

This work is a film that is projected onto a wall. This film was made at the same time as another work (appropriated small scale Victorian stove) and both of these works function together to create a single work.

In this work, Rirkirt makes a uses a recipe that was created for this work to make a large communal stew on the appropriated Victorian stove.

Through the capture of the artist cooking, his work can relate to real life experiences of the audience watching and it highlights the use and importance of the stove to feed and nourish.

http://www.pilarcorrias.com/exhibitions/rirkrit-tiravanija-4/

Keg de Souza:

Temporary places, edible spaces:

An installation at Manhattan ac institute, this work created by de Souza (part of her series temporary places, edible spaces) is an inflatable tent that looks similar to a jumping castle, coloured in white and red checks.

The tent is a “discussion about food and society”, The checks of the tent are reminiscent of a picnic, a casual and non-hierarchical setting to have and share food. And this picnic setting sets up Keg de Souza’s discussions enabling everyone to share their thoughts, opinions and experiences about the food despite the non-importance of the comments.

In this work, groups of people would enter and sit with foods that involve new York, the area of the exhibit. In the tent de Souza leads a discussion on how these foods have origins in new York and how each “fit into the foodscape of the city”.

https://www.ediblemanhattan.com/foodshed-2/temporary-place-edible-space-mapping-relationships-between-food-memory-and-the-city/

http://acinstitute.org/temporary-spaces-edible-places-new-york/

Changing Courses:

This work is a structure comprised of clear freezer bags containing freeze dried foods. Similar to he other works, Changing Courses also related to place (The Art Gallery of New South Wales/ the domain). In this work she follows the history of the foods relating to the location and how they changed over time and different social migration patterns of the area.

Based on the foods and culture, the foods in the freezer bags ranged from indigenous foods, fast food, super foods and high end food.

The structure is also a place of discussion where people can enter and talk about their experiences with food and culture.

https://www.the-national.com.au/artists/keg-de-souza/changing-courses/

Kjell Samkopf

Walking 1 -Mårådalen Walk:

Made by composer Samkopf, this work describes a walk through the sounds and noises that are made over the trip (ed feet on gravel, breathing for air,) from these sounds, we as the share the experiences within the sound clip with Samkopf.

In this work the addition of sounds is just as important as absence of sounds to create an idyllic walk through sound scaping.

http://users.notam02.no/~joranru/mediefiler/Soundscape%20in%20the%20Arts.pdf

Judy Chicago

The Dinner Party ( 1974-1979 ),

Installation, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

The Dinner Party is an installation artwork that portrays the history of women in Western civilisation. The 39 place settings each represent a historical or mythical woman of significance in order to educate audiences of the rich history of women.

http://www.judychicago.com/gallery/the-dinner-party/dp-artwork/

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Vertumnus ( 1590-1591) oil painting.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian, Mannerist painter who created painted portraits made of fruits and vegetables. His imaginative use of food can be seen in his painting Vertumnus of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II portrayed as Vertumnus, the Roman god of metamorphoses in nature and life. The fruits and vegetables are used to represent the return of the Golden Age that came with the new Emperor’s rule.

https://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/biography.html

Cevdet Erek

Shore Scene Soundtrack

This work is a performative piece which utilizes the use of sound. Erek recreates the sound of the ocean and waves by running his hands over a patch of carpet. He encourages the audience to participate in the work and run their hands over the carpet to also create the ocean-like sounds

https://www.ibraaz.org/interviews/220

Samson Young

Nocturne

Young presented a politically charged multi-media exhibition in New York (2015). The main part of the exhibition was his live performance ‘Nocturne’ which involved him recreating bombing and war noises with his own set of instruments. He compiled a 6 hour video of bombings and war footage which he plays on mute as he recreates the sounds using household objects (as his instruments). He attempted to create the sounds of gunfire, bombing, debris etc as accurately as he could.

http://www.teamgal.com/exhibitions/324/pastoral_music

Janet Cardiff

The 40 Part Motet

Cardiff created a immersive experience in 2001 involving the use of 40 speakers positioned in an oval shape. The speakers each play different recordings of choirs singing ‘Spem in Alium.’ Cardiff mentioned that the experience created was meant to “reveal the piece of music as a changing construct” and give the audience a chance to hear the song from the singers viewpoint, ultimately becoming more “intimately connected with the voices.”

https://www.cardiffmiller.com/artworks/inst/motet.html

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/12-sound-artists-changing-perception-art-587054

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anna-mclennan

Desire- Excursion activity

The object of desire as we discussed together was the gold, the wealth and prosperity in Australia.

Here, the object of desire seems to be the more English landscape. The desire is home, and the familiar. Beauty in natural landscape is what is desired, but it’s not a purely Australian landscape that is depicted.

Is this work of art, beauty and the myth of Pan is depicted. There seems to be a desire for the magic of myth as well as a desire for freedom of sensuality.

Artspace Works (I kind of forgot to take pictures)- also sorry for the quality of this one, I didn’t realise it was so bad at the time.

In the modern works at Artspace, the human body was distorted and depicted in many different ways by may different artists. The human body in relation to desire is explored- sometimes in more unappealing ways than others. Thus, the idea of the human body as an object of desire is changed, and allowed to be seen as more than that in many cases.

Concept statement

In our urban ecosystem and landscape we often ignore the plants that litter the environment. Whether these plants were placed into the space intentionally or is growing in the cracks and crevices in our concrete structures, we don’t pay attention to them and forget they were there or never realise their existence in the first place.

My work takes heavy inspiration from Jeff Koons’ metalis balloon sculpures that he made during the 1990s and 2000s. In this collection of sculptures Koons made the theme of bringing the banal to focus is apparent. His sculpture Tuilp represented a bouquet of balloon tulips that people usually don’t notice especially in his over arching theme of celebrations where balloons and balloon sculptures are so common that it is ignored or looked over in the eyes of anyone that is not a child. By creating a large installation sculpture of these balloon tulips and also recreating the object using metal gives the sculputre presence in its environment.

Taking inspiration from Jeff Koons’ Tulip, I recreated the dandelion flower manipulating the size and the materials. Making the flower larger than the original, so it takes up more space being more eye catching and also using vivid golds and copper coloured materials to give the dandelion a more ‘industrial’ appearance. The mirror-esque and reflective materials I chose to make the dandelion with has the same affect as increasing the size of the dandelion sculpture; to make it more eye catching and noticeable so the piece of ‘nature’ is not ignored and to remove the banalness of the dandelion flower, bringing this small flower into the spotlight.

In my work I represent this ignored nature through my construction of a dandelion. The dandelion is seen as a weed by many people and grow in abundance in my area. This is the flower that grows from the cracks in the pavement and can overtake a field of grass. A result of the dandelion flowers large numbers it is seen as mundane and banal, easily ignored and little thought is given to this weed.

The materials I chose to use were gold wire, gold sequins and copper burgle beads. Due to the properties of the plastic and metal wire and the shape of the glass beads, the entire work is very reflective. The colours of the materials were chosen to be representative of the dandelion’s bright yellow and oranges.

By using very unnatural materials to create a natural object the unnaturalness if the materials and the sculpture is really apparent.

The work as a whole is heavy and as a result I was unable to make a stem that would support the weight of the flower. (This is the reason why the stem is excluded from my sculpture.) However, the lack of stem has caused the dandelion to look like it is ‘floating’. This floating effect can cause my flower sculpture to be more reminiscent of a lotus (the petals point in similar directions and the lotus flower float on top of water).

An effect of this is that people will take more time to distinguish what the flower in my work is. Within this time they may notice more about the flower sculputre and find these details in flowers that are found our urban environment.

My experiments consisted mostly of moulding the materials in different ways to gain the shape and appearance I wanted for my dandelion sculpture. Some of which were trailing out how to attach the sequins to the wire, how to stop the beads from falling down the wire and arranging the petals and keeping them in place due to the unwieldiness of the wire and how to keep the sculpture upright. In all of my making and experimenting I didn’t want to use glue as it could devalue the work. As a result I was more interactive with my materials and learnt more about how they work and are.

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Final work

CONCEPT STATEMENT

The urban environment and repetitious lifestyle we live in makes us lower the value of the plants that we can find on the streets and side walks. These plants could have been put in our urban environment deliberately or grew by chance.

I used the dandelion to the represent the ignored plants in our urban environment. I chose the dandelion because it is a commonly found flower that can grow in small crevices and also litter fields of grass in our environment, it is also known as a weed and as a small flower it is often overlooked.

The work draws attention to these mundane plants that we see in our urban landscapes. This is done by using materials that has vivid colours and have a mirror-esque appearance, the size of the flower has also been enlarged so the object has a ‘larger’ presence than the original plant that it is based off of.

In the work the dandelion is made from golden wire, sequins and beads. by using materials that have an industrial look, the dandelion flower despite its natural origins has taken on a more unnatural appearance, this unnaturalness can be used to evoke questions and feelings about the work.

I initially planned to work with real flowers for my final work (,the dandelion, being one of the flowers due to its large population in my area,) however I didn't want to mass pick flower for the work due to the guilt I would feel for killing so many flowers.

I looked at Blossfeldt’s black and white photography of plants and flowers and noticed a metallic appearance to the plants. (This may have been due to the monochrome colours of the photos or the visible details and lines found on the close ups of the plants looking grainy like it was drawn with a pencil.)From this I decided to instead of using real flowers to make flowers with wire and metallic materials.

With the materials i experimented with ways that the sequins would layer and how to gain a plant like appearance despite the edge of each sequin being very visible.

BIBLOGRAPHY

Blossfeldt, K., Acer rufinerve [online photgraph], https://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artists/58-karl-blossfeldt/overview/#/artworks/10444, (accessed 13 September 2018).

Blossfeldt, K., Adiantum pedatum (Maiden hair fern) [online photgraph], https://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artists/58-karl-blossfeldt/overview/#/artworks/9927, (accessed 13 September 2018).

Blossfeldt, K., Anemone blanda (Windblume), [online photgraph], https://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artists/58-karl-blossfeldt/overview/#/artworks/9965, (accessed 13 September 2018).

Blossfeldt, K., Cajophora Lateritia, Loasaceae (capsule) [online photgraph], https://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artists/58-karl-blossfeldt/overview/#/artworks/9934, (accessed 13 September 2018).

Blossfeldt, K., Carex grayi [online photgraph], https://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artists/58-karl-blossfeldt/overview/#/artworks/10440, (accessed 13 September 2018).

Blossfeldt, K., Cotula Coronopifolia [online photgraph], https://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artists/58-karl-blossfeldt/overview/#/artworks/10439, (accessed 13 September 2018).

Blossfeldt, K., Dryopteris filix mas (Common male fern) [online photgraph], https://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artists/58-karl-blossfeldt/overview/#/artworks/9939, (accessed 13 September 2018).

Hume, G., Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) - taken in southeastern Ohio, USA [online photograph], https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/DandelionFlower.jpg/1200px-DandelionFlower.jpg, (accessed 18 September 2018).

Koons, J., Tulips [online photograph], https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/src/uploads/2012/05/Koons_J_Tulipanes-560x435.jpg, (accessed 15 September 2018).

Micheal Hoppen Gallery, Karl Blossfeldt, [webiste],https://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artists/58-karl-blossfeldt/overview/, (accessed 13 September 2018).

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As seen in the first photo of a dandelion, some of the inner most petals are stick thin and have a darker tip.

I recreated this by using wire and beads.

I have difficulty keeping the beads up at the tip of the ‘petal’. Before coming with my solution if bending the wire at the bottom of the beads so that the hole wouldn’t be able to go past the bend; I tried to loop the final bead with wire like I had done with the previous petals.

This older method didn’t work because the loop made I. The wire was large and could not be flattened well without breaking the bead in the process.

The tip of the petal is folded over itself to ensure that the beads do not slide of the top of the petal.

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I next created medium sized petals using a smaller sized sequin. Due to this smaller size, I had to use more to create the same length as the large petal from my previous post.

From my reference dandelion, I noticed that the inner petals didn’t bend down like the previous layer but up to create the dome shape that is associated with the dandelion.

So after threading the petals into the work I bent the petals up.

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I made around 25 large petals and put them together (at the stem). When threading all of the petals through my fingers, the petals would not stay still in the place I initially placed it in. This caused an irregular and more natural looking distribution of the petals.

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Using wire and sequins I created a ‘petal’ buy looping my wire around the sequin hole.

Because the sequins I was using only had on hole by the edge, I had to cut a slit down the middle of the sequin and push the wire through the slit so the entire sequin was attached to the wire instead of only one side (causing for the edge that is not attached to the wire to lift up when the wire was bent).

To create the shape of the flower I cut the circular sequin into a create a more rectangular shaped sequin.

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The banal and mundane object from nature I chose to recreate is the dandelion.

The dandelion is often seen as a weed and is easily found in Sydney’s suburban and city areas.

For the work I will take inspiration form Koons’ metallic inflatable sculptures and recreate the dandelion flower using metallic materials and increase the size of the flower in my work.

Another flower I was thinking of recreating was the tulip due to it’s mass growth and spread being caused by humans and it’s history of creating an economic bubble, where it changed form being an ordinary flower to a commodity that people needed to show off their wealth and back to being just a flower.

However, i decided not to do recreate the tulip due to he materials (wire sequins and beads), not being able to form the large tulip petal.

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JEFF KOONS - TULIPS (1995-2004)

In this work Koons takes items that are banal (balloons), and manipulates the scale and materials1 of the object to recreate them as stainless steel sculptures.

The reflective metallic surfaces and colour of the sculpture make it iconic and stand out (, Tulip also stands out because it greatly contrasts the environment it is put in). The idea of changing banal objects into something to look at will be a good starting point for my work.

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WORK PROGRESS

Taking inspiration form Blossfeldt’s work, I plan to create a ‘metal’ flower.

An artist that is well known for his metallic sculptures is Jeff Koons and his metal ballon works.

following form assessment 1, I initially planed to create something using real flowers however didn’t know what to create. There is also the issue of me not wanting to mass pick flowers for assessment 2 as well as assessment 1.

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Acer rufinerveKARL BLOSSFELDT - first edition photogravures

Blossfeldt’s photographs of plants, flowers and seeds. The close up or enlarged view of the botanics expose “Rhythmic forms”1 within the plant and make them “take on new and exotic characteristics.”

Blossfeldt aims to capture the “intrinsic beauty present in natural forms” to inspire creatives.1

The monochromatic photos have the appearance of pencil drawings. The grey flowers adopting a graphite and metallic appearance making the plants look eerily unnatural despite their direct connection to nature.

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marissaystudio

Value

Weekly activity: sensible bodies

The costumes and wearable works of the class.

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WEEKLY ACTIVITY: SENSIBLE BODIES

For our collaborative activity, we dressed our male member @kye-barnes in female gendered stereotypes and expectations from our brainstorm. This choice highlights that these expectations come from the male gaze.

The box is an item of limitation similar the shoe, and everything is applied to the box which is applied to the body.

These were: gendered clothing,body piercing, bodily shape, fake pockets(unutilitarian), shaved legs?, unshaved?, tattoos(trampstamp).

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Week5 Activity

GENDER BODIES:WEARABLES

Brainstorm::

-Gender arguments have a tendency to lean towards a gender

-Hair

-crossing legs

-makeup/face

-idea of wearing jewellery

-heels and history of

-shape of body: triangle and hourglass

-acceptance of body hair

-stereotypical jobs for gender

-connotations for same qualities in gender

-movement: walking patterns, bodily positions

-men exposed/control

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