Projecting possibilities

From Evernote: Nam June Paik One Candle, One projection Exhibited in the National Gallery of Art Washington DC A candle is lit every morning and a video camera follows its progress. It’s flickering light is magnified and projected onto the walls. There is a zen like simplicity to this work. I really like this simplicity … Continue reading →

Neil’s Tutorial (January)

From Evernote: So for the past five weeks or so I ve been researching and developing my video interviews. I ve also been mulling over in my head all that I ve learned from my tutorials and triads since Christmas. a lot of our time also has been taken up with administrative work in relation … Continue reading →

projecting Research

From Evernote: I ‘ve been looking up the Internet trying to get ideas about video installations/displays etc.One thing that struck me is video’s power to communicate movement, gesturing and dance-like actions. Some of the video I’ve liked are : Dorothy Cross. ‘Teacup’ She seems to have an interest in using precious everyday style objects. In … Continue reading →

New website under construction!

I’ve been busy this past week learning how to construct my website using wordpress.org. Its very much a beginners draft but here is the link to it…… http://www.linda-rafferty.com    

Artists that work with personal objects research

From Evernote: Artists that work with personal objects research http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/24/artist-chiharu-shiota-installatio Japanese artist Chiharu creates amazing web like structures around personal objects often in gallery spaces. She came from Osaka to Berlin in the late nineties and studied under the performance queen Marina Abramovich. She has created webs around children’s toys to wedding dresses to hospital … Continue reading →

Book Delivery and Essay Completed!

My book delivery from amazon arrived today! Although art books can be expensive I think it can be worth it to try to establish a little library. I’d ordered a couple of books Susannah recommended.. ‘Seven days in the Art World’ (Looks light enough to read unlike some!) Susannah mentioned ‘Inside the White Cube’ in … Continue reading →

Experiment

In this piece I have worked with the material from my object interview. I wanted to experiment looking at story telling without sound and concentrating on the body language and gesturing. For this I broke down the image into its simplest form so that the focus is on the movement and the gesturing zooming in … Continue reading →

C02 Crit

I think the exhibition was  a success! One problem though I had was that I wasn’t able to hear some comments due to background noise (we had all the doors open and the videos were playing) and this was frustrating. There were many comments on the archeological and escavational aspects of the work. Also that … Continue reading →

C02 Space ‘Span’

Myself, Kim and Zoe held our exhibition ‘Span’ in the c02 space on Friday. Our exhibition focused on the discovery of the attic space above the doorway in c02. Kim and Zoe completed three videos evoking this discovery. They showed these videos on large old fashioned tv’s which were on large solid stands. They chose … Continue reading →

Triad Artists

Ellyce passed me on these websites regarding the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko Out of Here Wikipedia Art21 From this one it describes his projections (This seems like an amazing website worth bookmarking) ‘By appropriating public buildings and monuments as backdrops for projections, Wodiczko focuses attention on ways in which architecture and monuments reflect collective memory and … Continue reading →

Triad 5th December

I had a triad on Monday with Ellyce and our tutor Suzanne. we were missing one person possibly due to the bad weather. I really was not in the mood for this triad as I’ve so much on this week. I have C02 space on friday and loads of assessments coming up. However this was … Continue reading →

Tutorial

I had my tutorial with Catriona this week and I discussed with her the images I had experimented with for the c02 space. I showed her the different video I had tried out. We discussed my video where positive images overlaid negative images. One of the problems of this is the connotations the positive colour … Continue reading →

History of the world in 100 Objects

History of the World in a Hundred Objects This site from the BBC tells the history of the world using objects situated in the British Museum

Marjolaine Riley

Marjolaine Riley marjolaines describes her work…. My work explores ideas of memory, history, familial relationships and archival narratives. My practice uses photography, super 8, digital video, text, objects and found photographs to explore a range of themes and issues that look at linking my own personal experiences to broader social and political narratives.  My work … Continue reading →

More Interviews

I’ve interviewed three more people! The above are video stills. I also took photographs with my medium format camera. I’ve a lot of raw footage now and will need to start editing soon to shape it all into something. I wondered about using the text as you could in one sense deliver more of each … Continue reading →

Interviews

I’ve carried out three interviews this week and they went quite well. I’m aiming to get seven or eight done before the end of term. I might try and make them into short mini films which would be about 1-2 minutes long. These three for instance could be called ‘A mothers letter’, ‘Frog’, ‘Passport’. I’m … Continue reading →

Gina Glover

Liminal World is an ongoing project where Glover searches for locations round the world whichcan convey the threshold between inner and outer worlds, time and impermanency. Glover’s small wooden box, with a pinhole at one end and roll film at the other, provides the means for her playful and yet meditative relationship to the world. … Continue reading →

Pinhole Medium format

I processed my colour negs which I shot with my medium format pinhole camera which I made. At first I thought nothing came out. The negs are 6×9 size so thee camera takes about 8 shots per reel. To me its amazing that these images came from a cardboard box! What I really like about … Continue reading →

Artists we discussed in Group Crit

Taneda Santoka from ‘For all my Walking’ “Days I don’t enjoy: any day I don’t walk, drink sake, and compose haiku.” “Westerners try to conquer the mountains. People of the East contemplate the mountains. For us, mountains are not an object of scientific study but a work of art. Patiently I taste the mountains.” September … Continue reading →

Questions

I’ve decided to change my project a little so as I interview people about something that’s a bit precious to them but doesn’t have necessarily any monetary value. so I’ve changed from asking about childhood toys. I think this may change a little from the direction of memory but should open up more possibilities. I’ve … Continue reading →