Artist Research

Appropriation video - taken from Wonder Woman TV show, she takes the moments when Wonder Woman is transformed from a normal woman. Birnbaum states, "The abbreviated narrative -- running, spinning, saving a man -- allows the underlying theme to surface: psychological transformation versus television product. Real becomes Wonder in order to "do good" (be moral) in an (a) or (im)moral society."

Filmed during a Russian rocket launch in Kazakhstan. Slow movement, sometimes split into 4 sections. Dreamlike sounds of wind chimes mixed with the noise of the machinery. Light!

Stasi City - movement, describing a space - installation of 2 projections on walls at 90 degree angles - creates an open cube space. Objects and people moving slowly upwards shown next to footage of a lift moving upwards. Constant movement makes you feel as though the whole room is moving. Ghostlike. 

Tall Ships (from Frieze) "16 black and white images of people projected onto the walls of a deep, almost entirely unlit corridor-like space. The movements of the figures are triggered by the spectator’s own passage through the space, courtesy of a computer-controlled interactive system. The incorporation of the element of regulated chance in Tall Ships means no two experiences of the work are exactly the same, but the silence of these sepulchral figures as they approach, pause and turn away from us makes the sensation one of simultaneous distance and intimacy." http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/gary_hill/

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/

http://www.rodinmuseum.org/collections/collectiontheme/4.html

Emma Talbot Thoughts about drawing - paper starts as an object, but once it is drawn on, it becomes something else - a space with a mark. Drawing is fragile and weak - tiny marks build up an image or an idea. Internal narrative - "all thinking all the time" - translate this narrative into something physical, marks on paper. Bad Objects - bad experiences can be built into a notion of having "bad objects" living in the mind. These thoughts translated into 3D objects.

Palais De Tokyo, France Gallery in Paris. Shows are set up in front of you, and the inside of the building has "ruin" features like exposed brickwork, graffiti and scaffolding amongst which the art is displayed. Exposing the inner structures of the building also exposes the workings of the art world which aren't usually seen. Does this make you view the work differently? Does it distract the viewer from the work? Does it make them think about the system as a success or a failure?

Dystopian view of the future - man is imprisoned and oppressed. Prison of the mind? The ruin as a political/ideological concept, not just a physical construction No daylight or escape - time is endless and meaningless.

Jim Threapleton Painting as a brutal process of extraction - a blank canvas suggests the anxiety associated with waiting - what if nothing happens? You never start with an empty space, the surface is already invested with images inside the artist's head and studio. Expressing the inexpressable - feeling to seeing and back again. Control and accident - sublimation through abstraction. Destruction and creation - bring satisfaction in expression.

Damien Hirst "The artist is everyone" preoccupation with death and time - memento mori The artist as celebrity - promotional tactics and the things he says form an image of him - no such thing as bad press. At what point does the artist's personality overshadow his work? Can an artist achieve success without revealing some of their personality along the way? Banksy - famous for being anonymous - but he still has an image, people know who he is and what he wants - how much of this is achieved through his work, and how much is publicity?

"Everybody is an artist" or "The artist is everybody"? Social sculpture - everyone can think, react, be confrontational in their own lives or in society - is this all it takes to be an artist?

Rob Kennedy Making exhibitions more interactive - playing with rules of the environment, power dynamics and the way people behave. Taking away the preciousness of art - is it part of the exhibition or not? Pulling apart the structures of film and television programs to find new ways of telling stories.