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Frank

Based on frank sidebottom who had a career based of a papier mache head, his music was failing so was his record company so he created this character which keeps on even after his death, with fans funding his funeral and a statue of him

Clean shots again, very beautiful film

and great concept for a charatcer as the film version Frank always keeps the head on, like me wanting to hide form people and photos

#general

Lawrence Weiner found that the vessel of meaning for his works can be just the words describing them, the work can be made, but does not need to be physicaly constructed

‘’ it can also be read in a book or heard if uttered aloud. Weiner's art can literally be disseminated by word of mouth ‘’

so in saying the name of a piece that can be the work

https://vimeo.com/116874800

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/4191

#artists

void--self

Artists & people that underpin my approaches are Michael Landy and mainly his work Break Down, 2001 (picture below) and Closing Down Sale, 1992 and his questioning of consumerism. he said in the university talk he tried to understand consumerism. and felt exuberant afterwards.

I have been for...

#interesting

Key

· 1 Application to Wysing and not to NN internship

· 2 Artist chats I have had and what I gained

· 3 Artist talks notes, with front note

· 4 Cabinet Project and correspondence for it

· 5 Events I have partaken in/started: Music, Grafitti and Green Party

· 6 /664 Spring Show: Emails and Advertising Team posters

· 7 Films that have framing and artistic relevence for my videos

· 8 Covered Vietnamese people and emails about skip

· 9 Future Ideas: self sustainment

· 10 key artists

· 11 website making -http://voidselfart.tumblr.com/

#intro

My Favourite Talks covernote

Mark Titchner, his video Rose blew me away and he explained how he made it to me.

Lisa Milroy, she made a performance painting, someone wore a dress she had painted and left the gallery.

Marquard Smith, and how he explained the coming together of the exhibition, How to construct a time machine.

And the RCA students Reika Ferencz who activated an entire gallery space by making melted wine glasses for people to drink from. Aethan Wills & Oskar Jonsson had a good discussion with them.

#talks

I went to every fine art talk that was on in subject futures week, including two photography talks.

Giles Dudley did some impressive documentary photos of war, only when he lost his legs did he believe he had a right to take these photos (he found it hard to photgraph the injured) SHowed us the footage of him being flown to a doctor when his legs were blown off. powerfully sad and strong video, its a video of someone who thought he was going to die

Tim Flach takes photos of animal, does have some good work

Lisa Milroy,most of her work didn't correlate or connect with me, until she ended on Party of one, 2013 a ‘’performance painting’’ (as she call it on her website) unannounced a lady came into the gallery, took a dress off the ‘mannequin’ went to the loo and put the dress on, then walked out of the gallery into the town, activating the entire space as a performance and live art piece.

#talks

Underpinning Artists...etc

I have been for the past 1.5 yrs since seeing his work, making removal of items as part of my work. culminating soon in setting up my room in a skip.

Head Nun at Amaravati Monastery, a Buddhist forest monk, her teachings have helped me accept things as they come and let go of connections held with objects. This allows me to feel less attachment and resentment when passing items on to others.

Tino Sehgal, These Asossiations, 2012 has shown me the extreme side of no documentation, objectless art and non-physical work, which I am moving into.

Marina Abramovic has shown me many ways to perform including showing physical limits of the body and using props. her piece The House With the Ocean View (2002) has her live in a gallery for 9 days, see how few objects she has with her. she created an energy with the audience, they supported her silently.

Janine Antoni with her piece Loving Care, 1993, in which she herded the audience out of the gallery space by taking over the space. forcing them, in her words, to feel uncomfortable. for her the photos and videos are just documentation of an event, which is how i felt with my 100 Days performance (VHS tape wrapping). with some however I understand that some pieces can be intended to be a live performance and a video piece(not just documentation).

Yves Klein, Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility, 1959. He sold empty spaces and in a performance with the buyer, (to make it a real piece), they burned the receipt and half the gold leaf payment.

Wilhelm Mundt a berlin based artist who makes sculptures by covering his studio waste on resin, making colourful Junkstones, helped me to understand ways to display waste and rubbish, which pushed me into continuing with my series of ‘trophies’.

We (the others spoke I just listened) had a chat with the gallery attendant about how Mundt created them, he polishes and sands them, and on certain ones plays with different layers of colour. Each one has a 3 digit number and he is now in the 700′s.

#key

Wysing not NN

I applied to Wysing Summer Arts School because they have an interactive sounding program for 6 weeks over summer with artist talks, workshops and off site visits.

An NN Internship would be setting up a show, invigilating it and taking it down, which while giving valuable knowledge on how to handle artworks, would not be very new knowledge to me.

I have exhibited in the gallery space for two months over summer (and helped take down the show), held a game weekend in the project space and done multiple events including film showings in the cafe. So I feel the experience would be better spent on someone new to the NN scene

#wysing

Showing that my website has bee online for 3 days and has two followers (meaning every new thing i post they will see in their feed when they log in)

and 4 posts have been ‘liked’ which increases the activity to my blog and can gain new followers.

All to spread the word of what I do

#web

My blogsite

http://voidselfart.tumblr.com/

#web

Why a blog

I have made a live blog instead of a static website because my work is ongoing and changing and I do lots of little events and happenings so it is a better format for people to stay up to date with my practice.

we are a scrolling generation, in that I mean we scroll down through web pages like tumlbr facebook and others, so my site utilises that and keeps giving information, to hook viewers.as it is a blog people can 'follow' it to get updates , so no email updates, and people can easily share things from it that they 'like' or 'reblog' so my internet saturation and audience will grow the more i put on it, greater exposure

it makes me easier to find, interact with and gain a greater audience

#web

Different websites

http://site9091186.90.webydo.com/?v=1 (first image below)

Webydo

gives obscure address unless you buy an account, and website only active for 30 days, played around with arty websites looking at the likes of S.Mark Gubb (second image below) with his images under text. found his blog website-good way to keep people updated easily, more casual consumption of ideas

http://voidself.moonfruit.com/

Moonfruit

at least allows a legible web address, however found that at this point I wanted something more like a blog, as the amount of time (5 days) spent on layout and editing for websites that need constant updates is unnecessary.

#web

art-research-oliv-sand

void--self

I edited the HTML for it:

deleted date of things posted (30th june)

deleted time since posting (25 mins ago)

deleted the # with each post (#art #void)

made the menu lowercase

deleted the RSS and Archove button on the side under the menu

made it have clean look, a cross over between blog and art website

#web

Jo Harris on advertising

marketing events MR71a (new comments in bold)

brainstorming, what kind of event?

date and length

concept and identity

what will it look like, I wanted a clean professional look with character for the posters, looked at some current london exhibition posters as a starting point, big pictures and section for key information

concept and meaning

perception

how will it make people feel?

Jo can send out E-vites to all staff, or all students, just have to ask we did, sent off the best poster and some text. and got all the posters on the screens in the reception.

paragraph to confirm what 'it' is , can refer back to it

have a contact email or something on the flyers thea made an email adress for people

tweeter facebook, @uninorthamnts, can use it to get a big audience, tell jo

shout loudly about it, don't just rely on posters, told everyone about it and got people to help put up 200 posters

make sure most important stakeholders receive personalised invites

know key messages or event

don tbe afriand to shout about achievements

#664

Producing a website with Steve

write a bio, any captions you want

select images

folder foreveryhting on laptop

resixze images? if images are too big they taketoo long to load

firestone resizer

longest side to 1500 pixels save as jpg

on photoshop can file , 'save to web'

source html5 website, no code, drag and drop

123-reg.co.uk

wix can make it tablet phone friendly I didnt use wix cause of advertising bar at top and bottom

weebly

moonfruit I used them but too hard to make what i wanted with it

redframe

idealgallery

He didnt suggest 'webydo' very professional website but i had too much freedom and realised a blog, ongoing updated type site, would suit me and my practice best. not a static site

put copyright on images my tumblr pages have cit at the bottom of each page

#web

After Uni

I plan to live self sustainably,

I am researching places, communtiys that do this and give workshops and allow stays there

growing my own plants

and getting rid of unnesisary items, so if i do need to move around a lot to other communities i wont have physical ties to places so much

#after

http://livinginthefuture.org/

http://www.thatroundhouse.info/ talking about how to make it and how they had to fight legal fight on it

http://www.beechhillcommunity.org.uk/community.htm need to read

wales

http://www.brithdirmawr.co.uk/volunteer.html have to pay to live there, sared chores, dont always eat together. can do one week half day work for half board(some hared meals have to get luch and breakfsast, can use eggs veggies from garden)

off grid power

amaravati temple, can do week stay, meditate eat, free

http://monktonwyldcourt.co.uk/ can live for a week for free, just need to apply and work for them, free boarding and all meals (i will apply over summer)

http://www.beingsomewhere.net/courses

http://lammas.org.uk/courses/

lammas workshops. Free and basic food stuffs provided self catering. lunch by useat together. There is a compost loo and a river to swim in for washing. as we are not connected to mains services eg water and electric.

http://www.thatroundhouse.info/

#after

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