Ed Osborn - http://www.roving.net
-Machines have a life of their own
Adachi Tomomi - Three Duster Dancers
http://www.adachitomomi.com/
Role of Curator: 'exhibition maker'
- Administrative VS Creative, conceptual
- Artist's fee: 'salary'
- Material fees: Costs involved in the making of my artwork: expendables: video tapes; production; transportation; equipment: camera rental, crew, talents, rental of studio space, hard disk purchase etc
- Accommodation, per diem (allowance), flight
Mona Hatuom
'emerging artists' VS mid-career artists VS established artists ('A' listers)
Administrative VS Creative
Female curator, feminist curator, gay curator, black curator, etc (identity politics)
S'pore: Lawyer-curators. Lindy Poh, Joanna Lee, Ong Keng Sen, Matthew Ngui, Low Tze Wee
Rise of the curator-star
Hou Hanru
Showing posts with label Major. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Major. Show all posts
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Major # 11
Dumb Type (Multimedia performance company) Kyoto
Ikeda Ryoji - sound artist
Takao Kawaguchi - dancer, choreographer, performer, translator, cultural activist, theatre
http://www.kawaguchitakao.com
D.D.D @ Superdeluxe March 2004 Tokyo
raw space, low ceiling underground space
appropriating pro-wrestling
D.D.D is a physical and audio and visual performances that talks about heart muscles and number of heartbeats left before it stops. maleness, sexuality, vital energy, exhaustion, physical limits of the body, narcissism
7 rounds boxing match, wrestler storms in, Fuyuki Yamakawa: Khoomei Mongolian throat singing, heart beating
heartbeat sound picked by electric stethoscope amplified, connected to light bulbs which flicker
Pseudo-science + humour
Medical camera used at hospitals, inserted into body through the mouth
Ka Fai is influenced by Dumb Type
Ikeda Ryoji - sound artist
Takao Kawaguchi - dancer, choreographer, performer, translator, cultural activist, theatre
http://www.kawaguchitakao.com
D.D.D @ Superdeluxe March 2004 Tokyo
raw space, low ceiling underground space
appropriating pro-wrestling
D.D.D is a physical and audio and visual performances that talks about heart muscles and number of heartbeats left before it stops. maleness, sexuality, vital energy, exhaustion, physical limits of the body, narcissism
7 rounds boxing match, wrestler storms in, Fuyuki Yamakawa: Khoomei Mongolian throat singing, heart beating
heartbeat sound picked by electric stethoscope amplified, connected to light bulbs which flicker
Pseudo-science + humour
Medical camera used at hospitals, inserted into body through the mouth
Ka Fai is influenced by Dumb Type
Monday, October 6, 2008
Major #10
Emerald - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
singapore biennale '08, old hotel, still shot, computer generated feathers, voiceover, green light, element of magic, quietness, humanistic, unpolitical, mysterious - orientalism, non-western conventions
Tropical Malady - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
1st half - lovers innocence, smiles, unconventional 2nd half - dark and bizarre, jungle at night, poetic, theme of love, personal, open ending, obsession, pursue, memory
Apichatpong's website
http://www.kickthemachine.com
False leading at start of film, Aerobics and stage singing > Camp (technique) - Camp is an aesthetic in which something has appeal because of its bad taste or ironic value. When the term first appeared in 1909, it was used to refer to ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical, effeminate or homosexual behaviour. By the mid-1970s, the term was defined as "banality, artifice, mediocrity, or ostentation so extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal."
singapore biennale '08, old hotel, still shot, computer generated feathers, voiceover, green light, element of magic, quietness, humanistic, unpolitical, mysterious - orientalism, non-western conventions
Tropical Malady - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
1st half - lovers innocence, smiles, unconventional 2nd half - dark and bizarre, jungle at night, poetic, theme of love, personal, open ending, obsession, pursue, memory
Apichatpong's website
http://www.kickthemachine.com
False leading at start of film, Aerobics and stage singing > Camp (technique) - Camp is an aesthetic in which something has appeal because of its bad taste or ironic value. When the term first appeared in 1909, it was used to refer to ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical, effeminate or homosexual behaviour. By the mid-1970s, the term was defined as "banality, artifice, mediocrity, or ostentation so extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal."
Monday, September 29, 2008
Major # 9
RESEARCH ON GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI 1910s Germany,
German Expressionism
- aesthetics
- mise-en-scene
- sets
- jagged lines, huge diagonals
- subjective mind/fantasy/emotional
- similar to French Surrealism
- theatre, painting, cinema
- stylised v.s. naturalistic
Recurrent motif in arts:
man and his monster
29 OCT WED makeupclass, no class 27 OCT
THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES 1969 Sergei Paradjanov
THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI 1910s Germany,
German Expressionism
- aesthetics
- mise-en-scene
- sets
- jagged lines, huge diagonals
- subjective mind/fantasy/emotional
- similar to French Surrealism
- theatre, painting, cinema
- stylised v.s. naturalistic
Recurrent motif in arts:
man and his monster
29 OCT WED makeupclass, no class 27 OCT
THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES 1969 Sergei Paradjanov
Monday, September 22, 2008
Major #8
Works by Kentaro Taki
Website documentation, blogs
Proposal/blog need to be more analytical
Biennale - This Wednesday, bring journal outside supreme court
8Q @ 8 October 2pm SAM
Monday 27 October Deepavali, makeup class 29 October
Week 9 - Michael Rush article + Gary Hill presentation
Run Lola Run
The Mirror 1974 Andrei Tarkovsky
Auteur Theory:
Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman
Weekend 1967 Jean Luc Godard
Rashomon: Akira Kurosawa
Kenneth Anger - Scorpio Risin
Website documentation, blogs
Proposal/blog need to be more analytical
Biennale - This Wednesday, bring journal outside supreme court
8Q @ 8 October 2pm SAM
Monday 27 October Deepavali, makeup class 29 October
Week 9 - Michael Rush article + Gary Hill presentation
Run Lola Run
The Mirror 1974 Andrei Tarkovsky
Auteur Theory:
Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman
Weekend 1967 Jean Luc Godard
Rashomon: Akira Kurosawa
Kenneth Anger - Scorpio Risin
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Trip to Singapore Biennale City Hall
September 17, Wednesday
Went to City Hall for Singapore Biennale with Kai and Video Art and Music Tech people. And I just arrived after Kai bought the tickets (like 7 minutes late) so I had to purchase my own!
The illusory installation I'm Not Expensive by Lee Yong Deok made me 'wonder'. I was just walking pass a wall with an image on it and then it came as a surprise that the image was moving as I moved. So it made me and some others walk back and forth until we grew tired of it.
Some were 'wonder'ful, some were just... not that good.
Went to City Hall for Singapore Biennale with Kai and Video Art and Music Tech people. And I just arrived after Kai bought the tickets (like 7 minutes late) so I had to purchase my own!
The illusory installation I'm Not Expensive by Lee Yong Deok made me 'wonder'. I was just walking pass a wall with an image on it and then it came as a surprise that the image was moving as I moved. So it made me and some others walk back and forth until we grew tired of it.
Some were 'wonder'ful, some were just... not that good.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Major + Critique #2
Zombie Dogs Chew Tze-chuan (2004)
• Based on Toh Hai Leong
• Strong Language
• Controversial contents
• Juxtapositions
o Gore music
• Angst (anger)
o Butcher house
• Raw meat
o Supermarket
o Restaurant
• Sells human flesh
o Instant noodles
• Necessity
• Basic/primitive
o People, crowds, malls
o Cartoon images
• Cheap way of storytelling
• Film inside a film
o Self reflexive
• Like a mirror
Charles Sandison
• Plays with words/text
• Ars 2006 - Kiasma Museum Helsinki, Finland
• Interactive
• Philosophical words
o Crowd around you
• Processing, MAX/MSP
Works from the Singapore Biennale 2006
Mariko Mori
• Sound can define, establish the space
• Glowing object in dark room
Myth of the Sisyphus - Tomas Ochoa 2006
• 2 channel video installation
• 2 different points of views
o juxtaposition
• misinformed comments
• deliberate
• argument
Appropriation
• Borrowing an idea
Brian Gothong Tan
• Built a runway for the audience to walk on
o Audience becomes models
• Cut-up Merlion
Sleepwalkers Doug Aitken
• work projected in NY Times Square
• High Ansi-Lumens (bulb strength) Projector
o expensive
o Bright places dilute light – work is only shown at night
• Frosted glass works better projected
• The whole space is the installation
• Doug’s way of humanizing the city
Maya Deren 1946 Classical Surrealist Techniques
• Non-linear
• Freeze frame
o In comparison with statues
• Slow Motion
• Negative images (x-ray)
• Repeated sequences
o Déjà-vu
• One character Two actors
• Stylised, unnatural movement
More about Surrealism
• Disdain for traditional aesthetics
• Influenced by theories of psychoanalysis
• Representation of unconscious mind dream logic
• French Surrealists + German Expressionists
• View from distorted lenses
• Use of superimposition
o When the heroine of Menilmontant stands on a bridge, contemplating suicide, the superimposition of the river over her face.
• Out of focus
o In Le Brasier ardent, the image gets out of focus to suggest the heroine’s mental abstraction
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Germany,1919)
o German expressionism
o Emphasis on visual design
o “landscapes imbued with soul”
o eliminate nature form state of absolute abstraction
o leaning/angular
o mental disturbance
• Based on Toh Hai Leong
• Strong Language
• Controversial contents
• Juxtapositions
o Gore music
• Angst (anger)
o Butcher house
• Raw meat
o Supermarket
o Restaurant
• Sells human flesh
o Instant noodles
• Necessity
• Basic/primitive
o People, crowds, malls
o Cartoon images
• Cheap way of storytelling
• Film inside a film
o Self reflexive
• Like a mirror
Charles Sandison
• Plays with words/text
• Ars 2006 - Kiasma Museum Helsinki, Finland
• Interactive
• Philosophical words
o Crowd around you
• Processing, MAX/MSP
Works from the Singapore Biennale 2006
Mariko Mori
• Sound can define, establish the space
• Glowing object in dark room
Myth of the Sisyphus - Tomas Ochoa 2006
• 2 channel video installation
• 2 different points of views
o juxtaposition
• misinformed comments
• deliberate
• argument
Appropriation
• Borrowing an idea
Brian Gothong Tan
• Built a runway for the audience to walk on
o Audience becomes models
• Cut-up Merlion
Sleepwalkers Doug Aitken
• work projected in NY Times Square
• High Ansi-Lumens (bulb strength) Projector
o expensive
o Bright places dilute light – work is only shown at night
• Frosted glass works better projected
• The whole space is the installation
• Doug’s way of humanizing the city
Maya Deren 1946 Classical Surrealist Techniques
• Non-linear
• Freeze frame
o In comparison with statues
• Slow Motion
• Negative images (x-ray)
• Repeated sequences
o Déjà-vu
• One character Two actors
• Stylised, unnatural movement
More about Surrealism
• Disdain for traditional aesthetics
• Influenced by theories of psychoanalysis
• Representation of unconscious mind dream logic
• French Surrealists + German Expressionists
• View from distorted lenses
• Use of superimposition
o When the heroine of Menilmontant stands on a bridge, contemplating suicide, the superimposition of the river over her face.
• Out of focus
o In Le Brasier ardent, the image gets out of focus to suggest the heroine’s mental abstraction
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Germany,1919)
o German expressionism
o Emphasis on visual design
o “landscapes imbued with soul”
o eliminate nature form state of absolute abstraction
o leaning/angular
o mental disturbance
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Major + Critique #2
August 13, Wednesday
Installation art
• Art made for specific space, exploiting certain qualities of that space, more often indoors than out. The term became widely used in the 1970s and 1980s largely replacing the term site-specific which means the same thing. Installations may be temporary or permanent but most will be known to posterity through documentation. As a consequence, one aspect of installations is often the difficulty with which they can be commodified (commodity). Artists especially identified with installations are Walter De Maria (American, 1938-), Nancy Holt (American,1938-) and Mary Miss (American,1944-)
Example of installation diagram
Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Installation Artist)
Check out:
• Conceptual Art: Joseph Kosuth – One and the 3 chairs
• Neo-Dada: Yves Klein
• Lars von triers - Dancer in the Dark (2000)
• Satirical sculptures: Maurizio Cattelan
Today was make-up class for Monday, which was LASALLE's Founders Day. Class started at 2pm all the way 'till 9.30pm at night, but even Kai was tired so we ended 30 minutes earlier which was quite a surprise.
Had a new lecturer - Kal, British guy for our critique. And we pitched all our ideas to the class, which they gave comments on which certainly helped a lot in the development of my idea.
My proposal's due the coming Monday, gotta start doing it now. Good luck, all.
Installation art
• Art made for specific space, exploiting certain qualities of that space, more often indoors than out. The term became widely used in the 1970s and 1980s largely replacing the term site-specific which means the same thing. Installations may be temporary or permanent but most will be known to posterity through documentation. As a consequence, one aspect of installations is often the difficulty with which they can be commodified (commodity). Artists especially identified with installations are Walter De Maria (American, 1938-), Nancy Holt (American,1938-) and Mary Miss (American,1944-)
Example of installation diagram
Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Installation Artist)
•Works reflect his experience with AIDS and loss of his lover
•A pile of foil packaged candy which the audience can take, and eventually diminishes, symbolizes how art is temporary and is also a metaphor for the process of dying.
Check out:
• Conceptual Art: Joseph Kosuth – One and the 3 chairs
• Neo-Dada: Yves Klein
• Lars von triers - Dancer in the Dark (2000)
• Satirical sculptures: Maurizio Cattelan
Today was make-up class for Monday, which was LASALLE's Founders Day. Class started at 2pm all the way 'till 9.30pm at night, but even Kai was tired so we ended 30 minutes earlier which was quite a surprise.
Had a new lecturer - Kal, British guy for our critique. And we pitched all our ideas to the class, which they gave comments on which certainly helped a lot in the development of my idea.
My proposal's due the coming Monday, gotta start doing it now. Good luck, all.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Back to School!
3 months of vacation had just concluded and it's time to return to school. And every start of the school semester, I would tell myself that I'm going to work extra hard this term! and in the end I always get distracted by unnecessary stuff and people.
The theme for this term is "Fantasy", and it's the first time that we get to create a video installation within the Lasalle campus. Course outline says that we have to demonstrate rigorous aesthetic experimentation and strong conceptual, theoretical research process, which is definitely what I'm gonna work hard on.
August 4, Monday
SEPT: POCKET FILM FESTIVAL deadline
SEPT: SINGAPORE BIENNALE 2008; Visit 8Q
This is a very good website that documents art shows all over the world
Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art
http://universes-in-universe.de/english.htm
The theme for this term is "Fantasy", and it's the first time that we get to create a video installation within the Lasalle campus. Course outline says that we have to demonstrate rigorous aesthetic experimentation and strong conceptual, theoretical research process, which is definitely what I'm gonna work hard on.
August 4, Monday
- Had major class with Kai Syng in a new cubicle classroom which is poorly designed
- New exchange student from Tokyo Geidai - Utami
- Screening and analysis of Un Chien Andalou Salvador Dali, Luis Bunuel (1928)
- Assignment: Presentation on Chris Cunningham
- Screening of Opera Jawa Garin Nugroho (2006)
- Screening of video installation by Kentaro Taki
- VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo
- http://www.netlaputa.ne.jp/~takiken/
- Installation Art - Site specific, process diagrams, live, shot from space
SEPT: POCKET FILM FESTIVAL deadline
SEPT: SINGAPORE BIENNALE 2008; Visit 8Q
This is a very good website that documents art shows all over the world
Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art
http://universes-in-universe.de/english.htm
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