Semester 2
Mission
My mission for
the second semester was to explore the relationship of painting, performance
and object-making. I also wanted to address the idea of satire, as it seemed
(to me) an inherent component of my work. Most of all, I wanted to take
advantage of and indulge in producing work without censoring or refining the
ideas too much, in order to push and experiment with material that I would
polish in the coming semesters.
Mentor Meetings
Suzanne
Kanatsiz’s feedback:
“focus less on
attaching meaning to your work, and more on your process and the layering of
your processes, so that meaning emerges, rather than is assigned. Don’t worry
about loaded symbols or cliché’s; throw yourself wholeheartedly into whatever
subject matter moves you. Give yourself permission to do as you please, and
don’t pre-judge or tighten up the outcome.
I encourage you to think about
moving out of the “normal and regular markers of order and normalcy” in art.
You told me you like the formality of the stretched canvas in rectilinear form.
I suggest recklessly “un-restraining” yourself from those parameters. Perhaps
instead of working towards refinement, you work towards un-refinement, and you
end up with some very exciting ideas and processes, albeit more raw.”
Artists
suggested by mentor:
Ann Hamilton
Joseph Beuys
Siah Armajani
NorthWest
Coast Indigenous peoples in British Columbia
Central Desert
natives of Australia
Janine Antoni
Dieter Roth
Cia Guo-Qiang
Brian
O’Doherty – “Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space”
Yoko Ono
Studio
Developments
Sculptures/ ceramics/ snowglobes/ scrying mirrors – elements of:
fire (kiln), air (drying), earth (clay), water (snow globes) – objects that
perform in some way.
Small scale
collection of objects with ambiguous references to artifacts one finds in a
museum. By having historical connotations, it visually evokes a sense of
integrity, as a starting point from which the viewer is hopefully inspired to
create a narrative.
Mentor SZ: “Is
the idea not to have them grounded in any context but have them as these
floating entities?”
Hair: Magic, (Julia Kristeva’s
)“the abject”
Sound – creating an intimate/
claustrophobic space – using collected sounds from my immediate environment.
Connections with Haraway’s cyborg created through the melding of sounds human,
animal and technology.
Moving image: Composites human/animal/masks/technology
(Haraway)
Experimenting
with creating “chimeras” that draw from my diverse identity, and legitimise my
urge to hybridise its discordant elements.
Film – Jungian archetypes –
masks – split personality. Connections with Paglia and her analysis of
Hitchcock’s women and their Freudian stereotypes (Objet d’art vs devouring
mother).
- EYE/ASS film – parody of sensuality,
obsession with devil worshipping being synonymous with kissing (his) ass; inner
darkness and clarity (inner vision)
Exploring the
‘objectification’ of a performer, especially that of women and/or animals.
Ideas for
future work
- installing a CCTV and
restraining myself to a small space. Stretching “performance”.
Suzanne
Kanatsiz: “That’s good because you are living a surreal existence in this weird
capsule”.
- Large scale sculptures – what happens when small objects become large? How do they
perform?
Artist
Statement
A microcosm of internal things.
A compression of incestuous intimacy. A schizoid prism of oppression. A
snowdome of dark specimens.
Museums always
provide me with an experience that is a dramatic combination of reverence,
fantasy and a sense of loss. The objects are removed from their banal utility
and perpetually exotic because of their remote context. Installing a fictional
archive of a fictional character performs to inextricably link fantasy and
reality and hopefully enhance their individual potency within that complex
bond.
I explore the role of the
performer and who or what the performer should be. Does one’s own body and
image enable more control of the process and result? The ‘objectification’ of a
performer is interesting, especially when dealing with women and animals, and I
intend to push this in my own work. I use video and photography, as a device to
move experiencing the performance from directly to indirectly, and thus
heightening the mystery and the unknown.
Camille Paglia’s insistence on the connection
between the awesome force of women and nature, which I believe is a fertile
ground for questioning the historical subjugation of both, and the demonisation
of all things pagan has also informed my work. Donna Haraway’s ideas complement
my own experiments with creating “chimeras” that draw from my diverse identity,
and legitimise my urge to hybridise its discordant elements.
List of
Artists and Readings
- Susan Hiller
- Donna Harraway
- Camille Paglia
- Julia Kristeva
- Suzanne Gablik
- Rene Djikstra
- Joachim Koester
- Joan Jonas
Bibliography
Einzig B.,
‘Working Through Objects”, The
Archive (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art), MIT Press, 2006, pp.41 -
48
Gallagher A.,
‘Susan Hiller’, Tate Publishing, 2011
Lambert-Beatty
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pp. 51 – 84
Ratti A.,
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Haraway D.,
‘Simians, Cyborgs and Women; The Reinvention of Nature’, Routledge, New York
NY, 1991
Paglia D.,
‘Sexual Personae; Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickson’, Vintage,
New York NY, 1991
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Videography
‘Joan Jonas
Visiting Artist Presentation’ DVD, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley
University, 25 June 2012
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