20.4.20 Tutorial with Mariele
My notes for tutorial, 20.4.20, with Mariele - my post tutorial comments in red Mariele's notes post tutorial - blue (at the bottom of the page)
Knitting: Body cocoon
Knitted, wearable soft sculpture, the next in my series of Living sculptures
Self portrait
Marking time – a photo/video a day
Knitting as slow labour, sculpting by addition
Balancing isolation and separation with comfort and transformation
Loose threads – the mark of making, marks of my hand, unravelling, hairy, abject
Colour palette – flesh
Possibilities of performance? See videos….
Social engagement/ participatory art
How can I still facilitate this when we’re isolated, socially distanced and can’t touch things that other people have touched?
a) Wishing trees
3 participatory installations on
Other people have also set up wishing trees or similar elsewhere in Bristol and beyond –Plymouth, Iron Acton, Stoke Gifford, Radstock etc. Also I’ve connected with someone with a wishing tree in London.
Durational, marking time, documenting each interaction and every day.
It’s now weather proofed. I’ve used recycled plastic file dividers…
Questions:
The Other - relational aesthetics vs relational antagonism, contamination anxiety
Body cocoon as Self?
Self, private/Other, public- Contamination anxiety in between
Extrovert vs introvert
Role of social media?
Wishes are often private, I'm making public what is normally pprivate -my home, my shenanigans, my routines via wishing trees and social media.
Performance a day challenge @rupidh Another artist who’s also exploring ways to facilitate participation in isolation. Interesting to connect with her, but also to participate. I’ve started to upload them to You Tube.
You Tube link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJaBdxZeQdH9H2PRYiMBXpg?view_as=subscriber
They are becoming a curious record of my life in isolation – about my routines and comfort, also with some sense of the rollercoaster of emotions that is my life at the moment –a balance between mania & boredom….
Questions:
1. How valid are they?
2. What shall I do with them now?
3. How should I document them?
Collaboration
Photo challenge with Tim, Hannah and Sarah See main Collaboration file….
Marking time
a) Every day I open my curtains 1 second video of the view from my bedroom window every morning. I add them to the app, ‘1 Second Everyday’ which will make a composite film when this is all over!
b) Documentation of knitting and Wishing trees
Contamination anxiety
Dealing with the dark side! The contamination is a real threat now. Fear of the ‘other’. Need to reread Douglas (dirt, contamination anxiety and matter out of place), Kristeva (boundaries, leakiness and the abject) etc and Hegel on Self/Other. The importance of touch – in life and in my work….
Invisible, collaboration with Hannah
I’m going to make a plain canvas wearable sculpture, Hannah will paint a large backdrop and then paint the sculpture so that it’s camouflaged.
Other ideas/materials/processes
Concrete/cardboard/clay/wax/painting/found materials/metal
I’ve talked to Si from the metal workshop about how to carry on working with metal at home.
What is my conceptual framework?
Don't worry too much about it, it will develop.
Before- continuing a theme
During - YES, ideas develop by doing
In retrospect _YES, things fit together
Mariele's notes post tutorial - blue
have a look::
wishing trees across cultures and centuries... which I think you do
Yoko Ono, which I think you do anyway as well - with her whishing tree.
Rosemarie Trockel
Louise Bourgeois
Ernesto Neto
Mike Kelly
Wiebke Siem
Laura Ford
-
They all use knitting - one way on another.
I'll let you know if I think of others.
It was Yakutsk I went to to see the wishing trees... where it is currently above 0 degrees! I'll attach a pic from the shaman's tree... for your collection
Knitting: Body cocoon
Knitted, wearable soft sculpture, the next in my series of Living sculptures
Self portrait
Marking time – a photo/video a day
Knitting as slow labour, sculpting by addition
Balancing isolation and separation with comfort and transformation
Loose threads – the mark of making, marks of my hand, unravelling, hairy, abject
Colour palette – flesh
Possibilities of performance? See videos….
Social engagement/ participatory art
How can I still facilitate this when we’re isolated, socially distanced and can’t touch things that other people have touched?
a) Wishing trees
3 participatory installations on
- The tree outside my house
- Horfield Common
- The Downs
Other people have also set up wishing trees or similar elsewhere in Bristol and beyond –Plymouth, Iron Acton, Stoke Gifford, Radstock etc. Also I’ve connected with someone with a wishing tree in London.
Durational, marking time, documenting each interaction and every day.
It’s now weather proofed. I’ve used recycled plastic file dividers…
Questions:
- Is it art? It raises issues for me about how highly I value making, and labour intensive processes, in my practice. Also, that it’s cheerful makes me feel that it’s trivial…
- Is it valid for assessment?
- Is the way I’m documenting it valid?
- I’ve been reading Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational aesthetics, but am struggling with a ‘conceptual framework’
The Other - relational aesthetics vs relational antagonism, contamination anxiety
Body cocoon as Self?
Self, private/Other, public- Contamination anxiety in between
Extrovert vs introvert
Role of social media?
Wishes are often private, I'm making public what is normally pprivate -my home, my shenanigans, my routines via wishing trees and social media.
Performance a day challenge @rupidh Another artist who’s also exploring ways to facilitate participation in isolation. Interesting to connect with her, but also to participate. I’ve started to upload them to You Tube.
You Tube link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJaBdxZeQdH9H2PRYiMBXpg?view_as=subscriber
They are becoming a curious record of my life in isolation – about my routines and comfort, also with some sense of the rollercoaster of emotions that is my life at the moment –a balance between mania & boredom….
Questions:
1. How valid are they?
2. What shall I do with them now?
3. How should I document them?
Collaboration
Photo challenge with Tim, Hannah and Sarah See main Collaboration file….
Marking time
a) Every day I open my curtains 1 second video of the view from my bedroom window every morning. I add them to the app, ‘1 Second Everyday’ which will make a composite film when this is all over!
b) Documentation of knitting and Wishing trees
Contamination anxiety
Dealing with the dark side! The contamination is a real threat now. Fear of the ‘other’. Need to reread Douglas (dirt, contamination anxiety and matter out of place), Kristeva (boundaries, leakiness and the abject) etc and Hegel on Self/Other. The importance of touch – in life and in my work….
Invisible, collaboration with Hannah
I’m going to make a plain canvas wearable sculpture, Hannah will paint a large backdrop and then paint the sculpture so that it’s camouflaged.
Other ideas/materials/processes
Concrete/cardboard/clay/wax/painting/found materials/metal
I’ve talked to Si from the metal workshop about how to carry on working with metal at home.
What is my conceptual framework?
Don't worry too much about it, it will develop.
Before- continuing a theme
During - YES, ideas develop by doing
In retrospect _YES, things fit together
Mariele's notes post tutorial - blue
have a look::
wishing trees across cultures and centuries... which I think you do
Yoko Ono, which I think you do anyway as well - with her whishing tree.
Rosemarie Trockel
Louise Bourgeois
Ernesto Neto
Mike Kelly
Wiebke Siem
Laura Ford
-
They all use knitting - one way on another.
I'll let you know if I think of others.
It was Yakutsk I went to to see the wishing trees... where it is currently above 0 degrees! I'll attach a pic from the shaman's tree... for your collection