Roll of paper stuck to the wall, working large to clear head of thoughts. Approaching the questions posed in Les's lecture. Helping to refocus work and highlight passions and influences.
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Research
04/11/2017 - Task 2 - FFF - FORM - Making Day 1
It had been a long day. The full moon was working it magic and my week had been pretty emotionally intense. I had spent the day at my reading and critique group (11am-6pm), discussing decolonising archival research, dealing with a lot of heavy imagery and discussing the way images are read by different viewers. This had sat wieghty on my shoulders due to my own personal situations. It was my turn for a critique as well, and unfortunately I allowed the emotive discussion of the morning to unnecessarily penetrate in to my presentation, muddying the work, its context and therefore, my feedback. Meh!
I came to the making session exhausted but eager to drop off the day and work.
I chose to explore ways to create a partition type structure using my fractured geometries.
The first piece I sketched the broken pattern on to a piece of muslin, used a running stitch and began gathering the parts.
I quickly dropped this as the pattern was completely lost and not what I was looking for. It felt wrong and not clean enough.
Revisiting an embroidery piece I had started previously I thought of a way to create the interlocking aspect of the chain stitch, while maintaining the transparency. I'm think about the ways to keep the delicate nature of the embroidery while up-scaling. using larger threads such a roving doesn't feel like an option as it would remove the delicate nature.
I cut a small flat card loom as quickly as I could from the pieces of scrap mount board on my desk and proceeded to warp in with the same strong embroidery cotton I had been using on the stitched pieces.
Laying the geometry underneath the warp I proceeded to experiment with a tapestry rendering of the pattern. Using a Sumac tapestry stitch, which was repeated on top to give the look of the original chain stitch. Once I have completed the weaving/tapestry I will remove it from the loom and capture the top and bottom of the piece between supports so I can manipulate it in to a maquette of a space.
I felt a tad frustrated at the end of the session to see how fruit full other participants had been. However I was quick to realise that the nature of my process is that large gains come over repeated processing days and to accept that as it is.
I think in future I may chose different materials to produce with on making days, in order to allow for greater discussion of the piece, although the reality is that it would depend on whether that is actually relevant to the work I'm producing at the time. Perhaps it is best to leave that decision open.
The feedback I received was really useful and informative. The words and text from the chat box are below:
intertwined, soft geometry(?), linked
disappearing, time, layers, materiality
Layered, ephemeral structurer
enlarge, 2/3 dimensional, different materials
Structure
thread as building material
powerful, jagged, delicate
Maybe knitted tubes, padded? would still have small stitch detail Fractals
and what about colour Katie?
- Colour is an interesting point. using the lack of colour to stop any extra reading to happen to the work, so it is just about the textures and patterns. HOWEVER, since undertaking some readings on decolonizing archive and how research has been previously preformed I am questioning if white is the colour most appropriate and if it could be read as a form of 'white-washing', whether my genres of 'white, female, British, expatriate' are read from the work, either consciously or unconsciously.
02/11/2017 - Task 2 - FFF - FORM - Making: Collaged dys/u/topias
Scale - master planning - super structures - dominant
Social housing or housing socially - housing society - which societies?
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A lack of colour alludes to a lack of..... ?
Hope?
Money? desire?
retro brutalist structures in desaturated mode
colourful utopias - desaturated dystopias
02/11/2017 - Task 2 - FFF - FORM - Making: Walls
Constructing walls, translating fragments into compartments.
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Enclosed - Exposed
Top down - bottom up
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Light filters -darkness excludes
Consider how fabrics would work? What about colour change in paper, try black.
Stitches pulling together, traversing the lines that are enclosed by ‘structures’- the structures within structures- the sub genres , the sub class -
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18/10/2017 - Task 2 - FFF - FRAME - Research Gulf Futurism, dystopias, alienation...
Gulf Futurism – during & post war – containment embodied or expressed through/mall as escape. Connection through disconnect. A virtual free worlds within a real restricted one.
alienation
economical survival of the fittest
neoliberal society – failure is eliminated.
- late capitalism – unrealistic sustainability of resources. Master planning, world building.
- hyper-driven - master- plans – dystopias – metropolis – reality to appoint – utopianism
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Time Traveller – observations by foreigners are amazingly uniform. ‘where tradition & modernity meet’ Its as if there’s a membrane or smoke screen of unreality blasted up.
Gruen transfer – first mall design – to make time pass slowly so you spend more time/money inside the mall.
‘invasive species of colonists’ – if we all are, can we be angry at those before us who acted in ways we don’t condone today? We can reflect on the past to change the future, but what’s done is done.
‘Re-importation’ ‘Here vs. There’
Expats that are born and raised here but not given official status as citizens.
Experience - Identity - Expatriate vs migrant vs immigrant - from middle east or in middle east – classification of middle eastern artist – context of work.
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Orientalism – redaction into stereotypes/tropes – kitschifying
Avoiding self-Orientalizing – beyond the gulf – work re-imported was lightly kitsch
Self-censorship is the enemy
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17/10/2017 - Task 2 - FFF - Thoughts - definition - Form Frame Fracture
Thoughts relating to Task 2 Form, Frame Fracture
Form, Frame, Fracture
Form, Fracture, Frame – current research practice
Frame, Form, Fracture
Frame, Fracture, Form – observation process/pattern making
Fracture, Form, Frame – over all current process
Fracture, Frame, Form
How I need to start: Definitions…
FORM |
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the visible shape or configuration of something.
a particular way in which a thing exists or appears.
a printed document with blank spaces for information to be inserted.
bring together parts or combine to create (something).
go to make up or constitute.
gradually appear or develop.
conceive (an idea) in one's mind.
establish (a relationship).
articulate (a word or other linguistic unit).
construct (a new word) by derivation or inflection.
FRAME |
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a rigid structure that surrounds something such as a picture, door, or windowpane.
an apparatus with a surrounding structure, especially one used in weaving, knitting, or embroidery.
a basic structure that underlies or supports a system, concept, or text.
Linguistics a social context determining the interpretation of an utterance.
FRACTURE |
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the cracking or breaking of a hard object or material.
break or cause to break.
(with reference to a group or organization) split or fragment and become unable to function or exist.
(of speech or a language) faltering and full of mistakes; broken.
Thoughts:
Create a FORM, gather information from participants. FRACTURE it – reFRAME it, a different purpose/story – question the origin – does it read differently if the context is different. Like the children’s flip books that swap heads and bodies or the Exquisite Corpse activity. How does that affect its reading, how does that affect the information, is it now nonsensical, or more believable?create the forms of floor plans from the fractured patterns, within a frame of a box, using frames to hold the fabric
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17/10/2017 - Task 2 - FFF - FRAME - Thoughts - GENRE
GENRE
What genres do I fit in to? Gender, race, age, nationality, occupation, likes, dislikes, stereotypes.
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Are stereotypes genres?
how does genre affect how your work is read? Identity politics, inherited genres, uncontrolled genres, unsolicited genres, sub-genres, locations genres, political genres.
Where do I sit?
What’s my genre? Is that the same as context? Or more flexible/solid? Does one inform the other? Should it?
How do our genres affect how we read others?
How much does taste/preference impact on genre reading?
Can you claim a genre that not yours for the taking? Does that depend on the genres classifications, i.e. some you can, some you can’t, some you shouldn’t?
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17/10/2017 - Task 2 - FFF - FRAME - Thoughts - TEXT
TEXT
How I talk about my work affects how the gallery discusses it, which affects how it is read and discussed by audience & critics.
If I use text within my work, the words have the meanings dictated by the dictionary... who wrote the dictionary? - See Urban Dictionary for new words/slang - expression of roots - childhood of mum and Nan using Cockney Rhyming Slang, everyday speech - dialect as a class signifier. Can I redefine words - misinterpretation as work - such as dictation - see previous post.
Gallery tend to exploit novelty – newness, & exaggerate the sensations, experiences, dramatizing, emphasizing. use of language is unique to gallery - institution uses different - not wot worry about this - only for exhibitions?
critics question the work, dependent on publication they may be more provocative or simply highlight key terms from press release. Try to be objective, mostly subjective, bias. Is all writing bias? Is all art bias? does it matter? YES - RELATES TO CLASS AND CATEGORISING< LEAVING OUT< EXCLUDING ELEMENTS OF SOCIETY
- so how do I include text within my work so it allows the work to be read with clarity – how does this relate to genre, story telling? Is it in danger of becoming a ‘branding’ exercise?
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Previous work including text - a lot of my older work had written messages embedded within in them, hidden under the layers of paint.
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