Wednesday lectures: Seb Patane

Wednesday lectures: Harry Meadley

22.10.14

The Panj Piare Project; the friendship between artists [5 artists] /cosplay.(2013)

• Level one (based on computer games)
• Digitally printed vinyl
• Mystery shoppers

•  Still stuck on stage 2
• Multiple personalities
• Clap with on hand (sound piece)

Leeds weirdo club - studio

 

Wednesday lectures: Nathan Barlex

8.10.14

Painting at home - house he grew up in - [Munch - The scream]
William Blake - God's judging Adam
[Art you have at home]
Painted dinosaurs:

• Painted dinosaurs into Monet's landscapes.

Wednesday lectures: Edwin Burdis

1.10.14

Film:

• About his love of England and the way that it looks. (personal opinion) Singing and voices in the background.

• The plumbers [hygienic gaze] - clothes
• Paul wipe wonder (2014)
• The fruit machine - huge painting that tells the story of another dimension and the human race.
• Mega dairy pig farm - painting and sound
• [performance art] 

Wednesday lectures: Hassan Khan

24.09.14

Hassan khan - sound/ film artist

• Connected to patronism-artist/context

Decoy - intervening in opening dinner [restaurant, replaced table with a pile of pine (wood)/ worked with four actors, during the opening of his exhibition.

• Dead dog speaks - animation (about speech and language)

• Blind ambition - film shot on a phone/ silent with the voices dubbed over afterwards.

Memories

• 17 and in AUC (2003) - four hours for fourteen nights - drinking, smoking and remembering university. Only spoke about memories - could not hear or see the audience (complete isolation)

Jewel (2010) - idea in 2006/ two men dancing around a speaker in the street - relating to history [dance - personal and cultural]

Work:

• Reading the surface: 100 portraits, 6 locations and 25 questions
• 17 and in AUC
• Decoy
• Tabla dub
• Transmission

  

Wednesday lectures: Ann Bukanta

17.09.14

Ann Bukanta is the head of fine art at the Walker art gallery in Liverpool. (1877-contempory art)
[art inventions]

• Lady Lever art gallery
• Sudley House

Video artists:

• Marcus Coates - Journey to the lower world
• Bill Viola - Observance

Contemporary art inventions:

• Collections
•  Buildings
• People

Performance art:

• David Brinkworth - The gallery cleaning service (2004)
• David Hoyle - Queering the walker
• Aaron Williamson - Eavesdropper
• Richard Strange - A sleek, dry, yell

 Ritual bodies (2004):

• Jacqueline Wylie
• Phil Davenport
• Margret Cahill-Gathering
• Mike Chavez-Dawson

Changing places (2007):

• Phil Sayers - Eve with hindsight
• Rikke Lundgreen - Ascension

Show: Project 4

 

 

During the show project we had to create an exhibition in which we would show all for the work that the other groups had been creating during the last two weeks (sound, listen, film and print). as a group we decided that we wanted to create an exhibition that was very different to a normal white wall gallery exhibition and very different to the exhibitions that the other three groups had created in the previous weeks. So was all agreed that we wanted to create a student flat in the studio where we would show all of the work and the opening of the exhibition would been like a stereotypical flat party. However this turned out to consist of a lot of work, we had the technicians put up the wall to the flat and add windows and doors, to make it feel like a real flat. original we wanted to add a ceiling, however we were told that it wouldn't be possible because of health and safety and that it would be a fire rise, knowing this we decided that not having a ceiling would work and would make people remember that it wasn't a flat and that it was still the studio and would break the illusion and make it feel more like a fine art piece, so this set back worked in our favour in the end.

To fill the flat we brought things from our own flats that would more it look more lived in and realistic and use fridges, pieces of carpet and chairs that we found around the John Lennon building, we also went out skip diving to find the flooring and the windows to make it seem more real, but not spend too much money.   

when we had everything (that made it feel like a flat) in it started to look pretty realistic, but we decided that we had to try and clean as much paint and ink of the floor, the walls and around the sink to make it look less like an art studio. We also put up flyers and posters around the sink and in the dinning area, which made the space look ten time better and more homely and lived in.

 then on the Friday of the opening we had all the work to put up, we agreed that the films and sounds would play on laptops in each of the bed rooms and that the listen and print work would be put on the walls to blend in with the posters, but some would also go on the desks to look like the work of the student that lived there.

Over all I think that the exhibition looked great and that the idea worked really well, and was a lot more interesting than just having the work stuck on the walls. I think that it was a shame that it was only up for such  short amount of time, considering the work and effort that we all put into it, however I think that the visitors we had enjoyed it and were a little bit surprized to see what we had created. However I do think that some of the work was lost and over shadowed by everything else that was going on, and that some people forgot or didn't realise there was work on display. 



 

Film: Project 3

During the film project we were asked to make a short film on pretty much any subject or topic of our choice, but were asked not to make in relation to a hidden deeper meaning. To start the project we read an extract from a book about cannibalism, and also watched an Asian film that was about these old women having a conversation and talking about music and there husbands and an ex boyfriend of one of the women that must have been one of the older women's daughters. The film then jumped to a scene in a gym with the women in the middle and children playing badminton around them, I wasn't entirely sure what this film was about as it seem quite random and the people in it were speaking in a foreign language and you had to read the subtitles to understand what they were saying. This meant that you either had to focus on what was happening on the screen and what they were doing or focus on the subtitles to understand what they were saying as it was hard to do both.
I had never made an art film before, but decided that I wanted it make it in relation to the last project that we did, which was listen, and I decided that I was going to make a film based on conversations and in particular conversational gestures that people make with there hands without actually thinking about what they are doing, and how taking these images out of context and removing the sound can change the way that we understand the meaning of the conversation. I found that it was quite difficult to actually create the film and that it isn't as simple as it looks, you have to make sure that the lighting is right and not too dark or too light and if you are holding the video camera, making sure that you hold it steady and everything that you want in the video is in frame and in focus.
However out of the projects that we have done so far I think this is the one that I have enjoyed the least as I found that it is a lot more difficult than you would think to capture good footage, although I did quite like editing the video even tough I found that quite hard too.