Artist Studies

This post contains some of the artists that help inspire my project development and ideas. Looking into artists who relate to the project topic and then use their work to for development.

Chris Welsby

Using nature as a main feature of his work really drew me into his art. Nature being one of my interests I looked to his art as an inspiration for my idea.

Richard Long

A lot like Chris, Richard uses nature as a theme. Forming angled rocks and other forms of land, in certain patterns and shapes, making strangely satisfying shapes out of jagged rocks. 

Mariele Neudecker

Enclosing landscapes in glass boxes full of liquid, jagged mountains with fog covered bases, lit brightly with cold blue lights. Loving the colours and lighting theme of her art work as well as the interest of how she made them made me come to love her work. Leah also showed us a few pieces of her work, one being a Winterreise (2003) where she feels a boat journey round a specific latitude in the north sea, played along side an opera telling a story. I loved this piece as it's relaxing to look at and hear, the gentle music and steady motion of the boat made it feel like meditating. I wanted to take some of those aspects, being relaxing and soothing to enjoy, as sort of calming zone. 

Tacita Dean

The distortion of this image is simple but intriguing, unable to see the background and location it's in and then the look of the tree itself, black and white, withered, dying. Yet I think it looks beautiful and mysterious, making me want to know where this is. 

Jane and Louise Wilson 

These artist take some stunning photos of abandoned places such as the waste land that used to be Chernobyl and many other places that our run down and falling apart. Capturing the difference in how things look even after not being interacted with for so long. 

Susan Hiller

The lights she uses in her works are surprisingly hypnotic and warm too me. Also another one of her pieces, Witness, features a room filled with hundreds of hanging speakers in a low lit room. The speakers retelling stories of peoples extraterrestrial encounters.

Boyle Family

Recreating a small plot of land using a cast and then using a type of the material to remodel that piece of land so they can hang it on the wall.

Pippiloti Rist

After seeing her work (shown in image above) I got the inspiration of how to present my maps and journeys work as an installation piece. But instead of using only 2 walls I'd try to use all walls if possible.

Ben Young

Using slivers of glass glued next together in an intricate design that forms a landscape or object. I personally love this art as the craftsmanship and attention to detail is amazing, and then to create such beautiful pieces of work in that soft turquoise. 

Dr Yuwei Lin - Cultural Geography and Mapping

What are maps:
    -Technical Instruments
    -Political statements
    -Religious statements
    -Boundaries
    -Art works
    -Storytelling
    -Cultural products
    -Memory and emotions
    -Games
Paintings = memory maps

Songs for Sound project

Reading through my pieces of text, it refers to multiple songs that are playing in the background of the party.

Book Clippings

The Book I'm using is Bioshock: Rapture page 389, which describes a New Year's eve in 1958 in an underwater city when an ambush makes their way in to destroy the party. 

Sound Notes 1

Sound workshop

Radio plays:

-War of the Worlds (1938)
-BBC Radiophonic Workshop (1978)
     - Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy
-The Truth Podcast - interns
     -There made of meat (2014)

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Sound Assignment

-Pick a short 30s - 1min piece of text
-Create a soundscape to the chosen text and use
     -reverb, cutting, pitch shift, reverse, distortion only
- We will play the back in the class to Discuss
     -mood, pace, location...

Maps and Journeys Idea 1 Rough

Nature: A journey of my favourite places or frequently journeyed places/areas.

Sound: Whilst the sound of the environment plays through headphones to immerse the audience into the piece. Getting deep details of the surroundings similar to the clip below (start at 3:18). Note that it isn't a journey you follow by actually looking for the noises, the sounds immerse the audience further into the journey.The sound will be 3D based getting the surround sound gathering as much of the environment as possible. Inspired by chris welsby nature (using nature as a theme).

Visual: Choosing different environments to share with an audience to give everyone a new experience or a nostalgia trip if they have been there before. Possibly just skylines with a hint of the landscape so it's not too personal. The footage of the skyline will move slowly forward as if walking or travelling.  Either using a wide angle lens or multiple shots to create a wide shot of each environment. Repeating the 2 minute edits onto the walls of a room, which a person stands in the center of the room watching the journey. Visually it will be similar to Pipilotti Rists "sip my ocean" and Chris Welsby 'skylight'.

Audience: For people to relate too and to put people into my shoes or someone else's shoes to experience something different.
My first idea is related to nature, specially a journey through different environments.

Friday 26th - Psycho-Geography

Sadly I was not well enough to come this lesson, however Leah put the tasks up on MyUCA so I was able to take part in the task set. Reading through the PDF file written by Leah, herself. She describes her experiences with Psycho-Geographical adventure in Stockholm. Reading about Psycho-Geography for the first time was an interesting experience as in previous years of GCSE geography has interested me to want to become a geologist. So the implication of geography or the physical earth used in art, caught my attention.

I tried doing as Leah said, writing my name in a map of Farnham and Aldershot, however my name was too long and the streets were too long or windy to write it. So on a bus ride home I got idea to walk a long straight road which I've been many times in various points in my life. However I've only ever been down that road in a vehicle so I decided to walk it. Using my DSLR to document new and interesting things.  

Key Points and Words

Key points and words for when coming up with an idea for the project. Some points are for the idea in general, some are for installation ideas and how to publicize them.

-Dissemination - Spreading the word of the installation or idea, getting it out there.
-Audience engagement - Getting people interested in the idea or installation.

-Meaning of maps and journey
                      ^                    ^
               Metaphors        Way to portray
            (space & time)           them            

-Feelings and emotions towards the idea or project -

-Interactive, get the audience involved

-Group or not too group? that is the question

Brief and Mind map

Brief

The brief for this term is Maps and Journey. This project enables you to explore the metaphor of ‘journeys’ to investigate narrative and non-linear ideas. The concept of ‘journey’ can be a interpreted as a process of thought, an exploration of the image, memory, psychogeography, taxonomies; ecologies; indexes or archives enabling experimental approaches to the static or moving image.

So to start off the term I made a mind map to help with research and the overall idea.