Jan '20
A glance
The table set
Gathered
Busy
I glance around
Resting my eyes on you for a moment
you‘re looking at me
It seems
Of course
Where else would you look
An acknowledgement
Time is sought out
To come together
For a moment or longer
Brush to canvas
Working through thoughts
In the dark of the garden
Exposed
no one is watching
we hope
This is our time
*painting*
Crave you
My thoughts are full
Of you
With you
For months now
Years even
There you are
Dark
Engrossing
Still so much to learn
About you
From you
With you
When we meet
Awkward pauses
Portray the tension
The expectation
Unsaid
What will be the next move
The first move
The last move
Will I end
Or build more.
*graphite*
Reflections since the last tutorial
Still painting,
working on filming the process - need to source cameras - front-facing fixed camera, continuous shoot.
Discussion and recommendations
Notes and discussions with Hayley Lock:
Sent Hayley an email with links to blog posts that go with exhibition proposals
Feedback on exhibition proposal - a few options which is a good thing. - think simple and manageable - pick 1 or 2 options - movement before potential - clarity - pin work down.
Questions: What are the sounds proposed? What are the museum signs?
Response: Sounds would be long play recording - an anonymous noise that may be very loud or very subtle that plays for a moment - a second, 10 seconds, intermittently and randomly. The idea that some audience members will never hear the sound while others do but for different lengths, giving mixed experiences. Responding to the definitions of anticipation and expectation.
museum signs: Trigger warnings - ‘Beware of flashing lights’ - ‘Please be advised: This production contains strobe lighting effects, sudden loud noises, theatrical fog.haze, scenes of violence, adult language, sexual situations, adult humour and content’ - but the content is the sign so there is no ‘trigger’, only the anticipation/expectation of one occuring.
Hayley and the other tutors noted that projection mapping is a high-level skill, install takes time, software expensive, only one blackout room - it’s a big ask for the exhibition - let it go.
I need to ask what do I mean by anticipation and expectation
think about how I will display the mixed media pieces - these are about control - my anticipation - my experience -
the process is somewhat intrinsic with the work and more important if discussing the artist’s anticipation and expectation -
consider Touch: material - touch - fleeting, physical, momentary, stories, talked around it, people we love, (already read Linden’s Touch, revisiting at moment, reading Primacy of Drawing and Vit-D)
See them as performative - presenting the performance - hidden with the references - the audience does not need to understand - writing to accompany -
My concern is that the work (both writing and visual/audio pieces) are sensual - not sexual, Hayley advised to focus on the framing - be articulate -
What the audience receive:
Mixed media - audience observe pieces that come from my experience of anticipation and expectation in making
sound- audience experience of anticipation and expectation
signs - audience experience of anticipation and expectation
Agreed actions (if any)
Writing the proposal: