11.2.21 Tutorial with Dexter
From my MF7004 assessment feedback: 'A deeper rather than broader enquiry is needed at this point'
Andrea suggested that I use Parts of me as a template for my next phase of research, but maybe also to revisit some of my other work. Here are some of the other works that I'd like to develop further, but what should I focus on?
Sculpture:
1. Concrete feet
2 Body cage 1 and Body cage 2
3. Stitch Self portrait and Self portrait, puppet
4. Stitch and metal Constrained
Installations:
1. Shadow sacks
2. Red is the colour of
Sculpture:
1. Concrete feet
2 Body cage 1 and Body cage 2
3. Stitch Self portrait and Self portrait, puppet
4. Stitch and metal Constrained
Installations:
1. Shadow sacks
2. Red is the colour of
Immersive installation:
I'm planning to focus on sculpture with maybe some elements of performance too. I'd quite like to see how I can use videos or photos of my performances, with my sculptures, to create an immersive environment. I'm wondering about using a green screen to situate my work in different settings. Maybe use mirrors?
Here are some examples of these performances:
Body cocoon 4
Body cocoon 5
Synthesis:
Could I combine these elements?
Critical thinking:
Anomaly and ambiguity & Order/disorder Mary Douglas see also PROVOCATION
The anthropologist Mary Douglas talks about order and disorder as anomaly and ambiguity. She describes dirt as ‘matter out of place’ so shoes on the shoe rack are fine, but shoes on the table are not, hair is beautiful, until it’s in your soup. My work explores the spaces between order and disorder but also a number of other binaries – Self and other, private/public, presence / absence, embodiment / disembodiment and, ultimately, life & death. Douglas suggests that these boundaries provide certainty but considering them as thresholds acknowledges them as flexible which leads to disquiet and a range of conflicting responses. She says ‘anomalous and ambiguous things are often seen as disgusting, disruptive, and dangerous. However, these are not the only possible reactions; there is a “whole gradient on which laughter, revulsion and shock belong at different points and intensities” according to the type of transgression (Douglas 1966, p 47).
She also says that ambiguity ‘symbolises both danger and power.’ (ibid, p. 94)
Sigmund Freud The uncanny
Julia Kristeva The abject
More aspects to consider:
Ritual
Performative making
Practicalities:
Apply for funding
Find a photographer/ videographer
Research green screens
I'm planning to focus on sculpture with maybe some elements of performance too. I'd quite like to see how I can use videos or photos of my performances, with my sculptures, to create an immersive environment. I'm wondering about using a green screen to situate my work in different settings. Maybe use mirrors?
Here are some examples of these performances:
Body cocoon 4
Body cocoon 5
Synthesis:
Could I combine these elements?
Critical thinking:
Anomaly and ambiguity & Order/disorder Mary Douglas see also PROVOCATION
The anthropologist Mary Douglas talks about order and disorder as anomaly and ambiguity. She describes dirt as ‘matter out of place’ so shoes on the shoe rack are fine, but shoes on the table are not, hair is beautiful, until it’s in your soup. My work explores the spaces between order and disorder but also a number of other binaries – Self and other, private/public, presence / absence, embodiment / disembodiment and, ultimately, life & death. Douglas suggests that these boundaries provide certainty but considering them as thresholds acknowledges them as flexible which leads to disquiet and a range of conflicting responses. She says ‘anomalous and ambiguous things are often seen as disgusting, disruptive, and dangerous. However, these are not the only possible reactions; there is a “whole gradient on which laughter, revulsion and shock belong at different points and intensities” according to the type of transgression (Douglas 1966, p 47).
She also says that ambiguity ‘symbolises both danger and power.’ (ibid, p. 94)
Sigmund Freud The uncanny
Julia Kristeva The abject
More aspects to consider:
Ritual
Performative making
Practicalities:
Apply for funding
Find a photographer/ videographer
Research green screens
Reflections after the tutorial: