MA 2 Studio Practice

21/09/2018 - Gallery Visit: Ways of Seeing, NYUAD Gallery, Abu Dhabi.

Fred Sandback and Hassan Sharif fulfilled my vision

Gustav Metzger challenged my thinking

Grayson Perry tickled my fancy

David Claerbout blew my mind

James Turrell comforted my soul.

Grayson Perry, A Map of Days, 2013, etching from four plates, 119.5 x 161 cm (my photos of artwork)

James Webb, Scream, 2008, signed certificate, speakers, assorted wires, audio, museum barrier, dimensions variable (my photos of artwork)

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Cindy Sherman, Untitled #466, 2008, colour photograph, 246.1 x 162.6 cm (my photos of artwork)

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Hans-Peter Feldman, One on One (milky Way), 2012, chocolate box and sign, dimensions variable

(my photos of artwork)

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Andreas Gursky, Dubai World I, 2007, c-print, 307 x 223.3 x 6.2 cm (my photos of artwork)

Michelangelo Pistoletto, METRO QUADRATO INFINITO, 1966/2018, sculpture, string, 240 x 240 cm (my photos of artwork)

Gustav Metzger, To Walk Into - Massacre on the Mount, Jerusalem, November 8, 1990. 1996/2018, photograph on PVC and linen cover, 238 x 395 x 30 cm (my photos of artwork)

David Claerbout, The Algiers' Section of a Happy Moment, 2008, single-channel video projection, b/w, stereo, 37 mins (my photos of artwork)

James Turrell, Alta (Pink), 1968, cross corner projection, dimensions variable (my photos of artwork)

Hassan Sharif, Knots, 2012-2016, cotton rope and stainless steel, 380 x 350 cm (my photos of artwork)

Sharif fills the space - the opposite of how I'm told he was as a person. The rope and knots are so clear yet lost in mass. It was higher when I saw it last - it took up less floor space and it felt like you could walk in to it - this feels deflated, or maybe growing tired from moving from place to place. 

Fred Sandback, Untitled (Sculptural Study, Twenty-two-part Vertical Construction), 1991/2018, black and red acrylic yarn, dimensions variable (my photos of artwork)

I want to lie on the floor, I want to ping it and run about in them.

Not Pictured: Kim Tschang-Yeul - water drop -a painting and a reference - does the artist want you to look at both, are they the same - is one incidence and one action?

Not pictured: Gustav Metzger - Historic Photographs: To Crawl Into - Anschluss, Vienna, March 1983, 1996/2011 - the linen was so heavy, my shoulders ached from bearing the weight - the actual weight and the metaphoric weight - the women in the large photo are scrubbing the floor while children look on - I crawl on top of them struggling to lift the fabric to see them, I haven't seen them before, I don't know them but for a moment I'm with them, in a similar position but with the privilege of choice, of participation, rights - can I ever emphasise? do I need to? is the moment enough - a token -its history, past, I cannot change.

  

Mon, 17 September - Introduction to MA 2 - KF (CW between 17:00 - 18:30)

In a new exercise for this year, I will be sharing my session notes. These are the moments when I have thoughts about my own practice which are intertwined with the dialogue and other members works. Sometimes they will make sense, many times they probably won't. It allows me to store those moments that feel so urgent at the time and need to be preserved for the times when 'the desert is a little dry' or 'the fog is a little dense'.Session outline (from google calendar):Introduction to MA 2 - KF (CW between 17:00 - 18:30)DescriptionSummary of Unit: Testing Your Boundaries, Intersections and Articulations, Risks, Failures and Learning NB Exploratory Project, the exploration continues Introduction, including information on continual reflection and evaluation in journals and active contribution in group sessions Share summer experience in small groups. Aims for the year ahead, verbally and in journals

Notes:
Testing practice
Contextual awareness
Audience
Testing boundaries - put work into the public
This is the year to make ideas visible
engaged maker - trying it out
resources for each other - share knowledge
Formulaic provocations
disparate and joined
materiality of practice - how it changes people.
Materially grounded.
In what routes to we communicate these narratives.
extending, commitment, curiosity, creatively minded
contextualised practice - social, ethical, political
How do we know our ideas are being manifest?
What do I want to test in my practice? Why?
Patience within my practice - tackling my ADHD and actually spending time on doing something, allowing it to evolve and not imparting expectations.
What, why, how am I doing it?
Who is it for?
So what? - Who cares?
Vulnerability and responsibility.
Testing boundaries -
create work and out in public that you wouldn't normally, i.e.: not white cube - instead park bench
gather data and see communication
who is it for?
loyal to a piece of work you don't want to be loyal to any more.
Performative?
our work doesn't care about us once its out there!
fight the algorithm - reject or don't fight - find the difficult things.
the exhibition that I remember are the ones that irritated.
Kimberley Foster - Tate exchange
cake - throwing it all together to make a new cake
Allan Kaprow - the blurring of art and life
attention alters what is attended.
General booklist - reading - add your content
microphone - contact microphone, hydrophone
sounds of things
Stephen Pippin - pinhole camera.