Unit 3 Formative Presentations

Friday 16 July

Unit 3 Formative Presentations

10.0 - 12.0 with Geraint and Anna

Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup- join/19%3ameeting_YzVkOWYxNGMtOWRiNi00NmJlLThjYTktZWVlZGRlZjU4MWNh%40thread.v2/0?context=% 7b%22Tid%22%3a%228c6429c4-167f-477b-b8cb-77ee82758d11%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22577114b8-030e- 4e26-a0c6-28d524a7e107%22%7d

Andrew Watson, Noel Kang, Yoel Ramis Infante, Francisco Goncalves, Sarah Chalkie Cloonan, Yuxin Huang (Rain), Weiru Zhao (Varo)

- We would like you to outline your key ideas and main contexts, introduce your current artwork, identify some of the issues in the work that need development and discuss your plans for evolving the work in the summer ahead of the final unit 3 submission and the exhibition in September. Present images (and/or short videos etc.) that illustrate your current work and, if appropriate, indicate how the work will develop (e.g., drawings, collages etc.)

Exploration of Domestic Magic though painting assemblage and film.

My proposed plan for Unit 3 is to:

-complete my collection of "The Four Pathways of Knowledge" and satellite paintings and unite them in to one installation or collection as "A place to be".

- review, critically reflect and to remake, incorporating the knowledge and new skills I have acquired in unit 2.

- expand in to assemblage, installation and the moving image.

- experiment further with and in collaboration.

- further research and show my work, extending my practise in to public spaces, the educational, domestic and the other, mirroring my four pathways.

Links to my proposals for unit 3 blogs-

Museum of the Home - Domestic Magic - Link

Installation assemblage - A place to be - Link

A Proposed Response - Collections - Link

A place to be - Context and those who Inform my Practice.

“It is important to create space for people to interact. When people lay down, they may begin to talk with each other, without knowing one another and it is a healing process. The spirit of the interaction of the work is very important for me and for the Brazilian tradition. The spirit of interaction is in the samba, people playing music, dancing together, everybody doing the same together. For the indigenous people, the most important is the drive, to be here on this planet.”

Ernesto Neto, Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2021.

During lockdown public spaces became even more important together with places to just be, both inside, and outside. These spaces somehow still feel like domestic spaces, a place to feel safe, to learn, to dwell, to grow.

I would like to experiment with this idea using images closer to my own domestic and cultural background. Using backdrops of the woods, and glades of my childhood, the people and objects that were part of my everyday influenced and informed by the stories and family lore that permutated my childhood

I need to create collections of collaborated creations and appropriations that fit with my desired outcome for ’A Place to be’…. I am thinking I need a new tile, it’s too ‘Lotus Eaters’ although I want relaxation and a sense of enchantment to prevail and would like my audience to go forth engaged with positive ideas about Domestic Magic, I want it to resonate for them in after the event.

Title

’Curious place to be’,

‘women and Lemons said the bells of St. Clements‘ references me directly as a woman who growing up in the City of London in the 1960's. Any old iron?

I need to think about this. Collections to respond to what language to use?

In addition to my own images and objects I would like to broaden my audience interest base and allow the work to appear to lookout, in the same way Mark Bradford uses his ‘social abstraction’ to redirect his gaze. The final pieces will be autobiographical, in order to work - no artwork may escape that indexicality but by including collaboration and appropriation maybe the results can point and index a wider audience.

Outcome

I would like to produce picture assemblages and objects that prick your curiosity in a pleasant way and use your senses to remind or discover positive things.

The outcome will be personal in each case - it will depend on the individual personal memories experiences and back ground.

Context - the philosophers

Karl Jung coined synchronicity "to describe circumstances that appear meaningfully related yet lack a causal connection."

Use the five senses to embed an experience and trigger the “Ratatouille effect’, also known as Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.

— published in French as À la recherche du temps perdu from 1913 to 1927.

— The novel is the story of Proust’s own life, told as an allegorical search for truth.

— It is the major work of French fiction of the early 20th century And includes The Madelaine.

— translated as Remembrance of Things Past, a novel in seven parts by Marcel Proust,

Sartre - believed we are a blank canvas and that life made her marks.

Jean-Paul Sartre said that “Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself” (Sartre, JP,1945, p. 336).

He believed that we are all born without a purpose or a predetermined plan.

Shakespeare believed in a divine force that governed our lives.

“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will”

Hamlet | summary, plot, & characters (no date) Encyclopedia Britannica. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hamlet-by-Shakespeare (Accessed: 17 July 2021).

I am undecided and am going to keep an open mind.

Humour

A more amusing take on connections and one that makes me think about introducing some laughs somewhere is a quote by Lenin

“Everything is connected to everything else.”

This observation was put forth by a lawyer, Vladimir Illich Ulyanov, though it was attributed to him as Lenin, to be reused by in a humorous and insightful way In the Satirical TV show Yes Minister.

Who said that? Bernard Woolley : The Cabinet Secretary? Sir Humphrey Appleby : Nearly right. Actually, it was Lenin.

I laughed. The jester approaches. Serious points posed in playful ways.