#disruptproject

(artist research)

I found the work of marina abramovic quite interesting to view and to experience.

Her work " The artist is present", is a spectacular performance piece where she sits and stares at whoever is willing to sit and stare at her.

I love the idea of art being able to stare back at us, making us feel a mixture of emotions.

Eye contact, can be so hard to maintain as well while interacting with people, even though it sounds so simple to do. So I love this element of her holding her gaze determinedly, provoke different reactions from the person opposite her.

Her work, "Rhythm 0" is also a disturbingly spectacular piece too.

She let people do whatever they wanted to her body, for many hours, with acts becoming more violent as the hours went by.

She put herself as an object (like how women can feel) and represented, I feel, toxic masculinity and how power and lack of boundaries can become very dangerous.

Overall, in my opinion, she is excellent at creating an uncomfortable feeling within people, something of which I feel resonates with my own project work.

(Some work found in book, "The artist body" by Tracey Warr and Amelia Jones.)

EDIT

Disrupt Project

Here is the aftermath of "Disrupting Perfectionism" in the form of disrupting a portrait I spent a week working on.

Expanding on my "How to shave" zine, I wanted to create an animation of what would happen when someone doesn't shave. To do this I used asperite, which is a pixel art animation software. It is usually used to create videogame sprites but I decided to use it for a basic animation.

I wanted to show how much of the body the hair takes over, to make this more prominent I decided to keep the character unclothed, so you can see the hair become overgrown.

Here was my end result which I am content with. I hope to use asperite more in the future and animation as a whole.

I also completed this one, where the growth comes from all of the areas of the body that have the most testosterone. I didn't like the overall animation as much as the standard animation that is above.

I had already previously done an introduction to Foley sound art on 27/10/23. But I decided to do it again, so I could get a more in depth understanding of how it works.

In the video above, me and my peers recreated sound for a scene from the animated tv show "Samurai Jack".

I really enjoyed making this. I felt I learnt so much, as trying to maintain the balance of creating the sound on cue while ensuring the sound fits whatever is going on in the scene is difficult.

I have attached above, my sound art piece!

I am very happy with how it turned out.

I love the dark and gritty feel it has, since I put the black and white filter over it. It makes the message more serious. My voice then adds a humorous element, which I was looking to achieve too.

There was a process to get to this piece though.

I first had my college peer, Chris, help me to reshoot a video, where only my hand is seen, acting very cautiously, portraying how it can hear the voice too.

I then sat down at home, and watched the video a couple of times, working out what I wanted my voice to say to cover the regular piano noise. The pink writing is the "song" I decided on.

I then video myself saying these words, while carefully watching the video on another device. It took a few tries to get the hang of it. I got annoyed too (see third image lol)

I then chose a video and mashed it together with the video of me playing the keys. This helped me to realise that my voice was too drawn out,compared the keys, which where pressed quickly.

I then redid my voiceover video, and mashed it together with the piano video, on the app video leap. This then led to the video attached above.

IMPORTANT!!

I have attached a link to view my process work. They are on Vimeo, as Tumblr only allows one video per post.

(Primary Research)

After having a tutorial with lecturer Fiona, I decided to go back to the piano in the LSAD canteen and get some more primary research of it.

I got some great pictures of the inside of it, showing the components that make it up. One of my college peers, Chris, told me aswell, that the piano is a percussion instrument, that to create noises the hammer part bangs on the strings.

I got a great video of him playing the piano which demonstrates this.

I also notice how dusty the inside is, and how the back of it is used for storage of cleaning equipment (See top). It felt sad to see this, as it shows it is not cared for in the same ways a piano in a theatre would be.

I also notice that the piano keys can be locked up, blocked from use, as there is a keyhole there that can lock the cover. I found this very interesting.

I was preparing to put up some bits to exhibit for the end of the disrupt project and an idea came to me; to combine some of my individual work together to create one piece.

The piece together, has become a human form of the piano, which is brilliant. It is exactly something I had wanted to created for the disrupt project.

It has both 2D and 3D objects making it up, which I really like, I always enjoy the combination of the two.

I also love the surreal way it looks, how it combines both fun and uncomfortable/odd.

I feel the piece, sitting on the chair, reminds me of Marina Abramovic's work, "The artist is present". This is due to the piece having the ability to stare back at the viewer/user.

List of items I have used:

▪️key head and hearts on jacket I made after doing the disrupt/reconstruct workshop (key head on propped up with cardboard).

▪️soft sculpture hands made in the fashion and textile room, while making work there after I did the make your mark workshop

▪️jacket which I marked at the back, from doing the make your mark workshop

I want to disrupt my assumption that the piano in the LSAD canteen, is a playable and submissive object, by empowering it. I will do this through a lens of toxic masculinity and feminism.

I will try to disrupt this in both negative and positive ways.