Today we met up at the space for the first time. The space was bigger than I thought it had be and although I had some ideas of what I wanted to show - I wanted to wait until I had seen the space to gain some inpiration from the space. Rather than having something I had already made recently. Although I do still have a couple of pieces to fall back on if my pieces don't work during this week.
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get a cold from working in this space. The snow doesn't help. I keep falling over :(

Looking into film pieces, I was looking at Yoko Ono's cut piece. 

Where she invited the audience members to cut pieces of her clothing off, this is the sort of concept I'm looking at almost suffering for the artwork. By asking others to do things to her, pushing boundaries between the performer and the audience. This brought her back to her natural state and took away her identity throughout clothes. 

A more prime example of this would be Marina Abramovic's RHYTHM 0, 1974, where she placed different items on the table infront of her, and invited the audience to come up and pick any weapon and do anything to her. This was opening up a entire different aspect to performance art, as she put items such as knifes, a gun and other items which could cause her pain or pleasure. She put herself on display for people to do anything they wanted to her. A man was going to shoot her, until someone else stopped him. This showed how as a 'performer' she was treated differently to how she wouldve usually been treated. The viewers/participators lost there morals and acted in ways they wouldn't usually. Putting herself through pain and suffering to discover the different relationship between performer and audience. 

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I recently created this video/performative piece involving me breaking an egg over my eyes. I was looking at the impact of age and time symbolising through the egg breaking.
Having an aspect of suffering for my own work and experiencing the process to a different level than my other work, as I've never really worked in film before. This almost has a beauty rictual implication - especially as it actually made my skin feel soft. I was looking into developing the idea of 'suffering for beauty', looking into different myths there are about processes which supposedly enhance our appearance.

Having the video in black and white does make it a little difficult to tell that they are actually eggs. Although in the colour version it seemed a little artificial, also I kind of like the fact its slightly obscured 

Some different wax experiements 
 

Mixing two colours worked effectively although I think these were too contrasty. Also it is pretty fragile as they aren't properly intwined together.

Although I used the same process for each of these with the water, because its done to chance they all come out different. The way I pour it, the amount of wax and the shape of the bowl are all effecting factors. Its just  a trial and error thing really. Some come out nicer than others. 

I did actually kind of like the more subtle ones, as it has more natural movement compared to some of the clusters. 

I looked at blending different colours by putting spray paint on top of the wax. So rather than having one entier colour I was able to blend the colours. This also shows the movement of the water and the shapes through the tones. This resembles the human body [flesh] and also has a relationship to food in way. ( reminds me of tutti fruitie)

I'm not sure why but a lot of my art work tends to have tendencies of me wanting to eat them, maybe because of the colour of the material. its odd.

WORKSHOP

Today we were asked to bring objects in for a casting workshop. Although I didn't fully understand and thought we were making cast of objects not imprints so my objects wasn't really appropriate :/. Although this did give me a chance to experiment with the different materials and find processes to engage with.

I was looking at messing around with plaster, although the only 'successful' piece I got was from using the gloves to create a hand cast 'need a hand'. Although this was more of an experiment with the material rather than the outcome. 

Wax was more of a material which I found a good connection with. I looked at created natural forms by pouring the wax into the water.  When the pot was a small pot, it constrained the wax and had a pressured effect. Although I wasn't too sure on the colouring of the wax. I will have to try out different pieces. 

 Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory 

Although I only read the introduction of Matter and memory I still found it a really difficult read. 

Bergson ' we have been educed to respond to the world' The human has spaces to store memory and therefore can chose a reaction - depending on past experiences (of reading/actions/etc), which help us to understand future experiences. 

For Bergson the image is not infact the object and is not quiet the representation of the object in ones mind. (like a memory of a memory) 

Perception is completely different to memory - although he believes theres not enough seperation in idealism and realism. (ie Mental images (memories) and actual images (photographs).

Although images are a good way of understanding the world it doesn't mean that we have full understanding of it. This is because the individual can only perceive a part of it at one time - so we are unable to have pure perception(perception all at onces). Pure perception is a way of understanding something all at once and understand the limits of perception. 

We actually screen out what we don't need to see ('the necessary poverty of perception'). So in his eyes, perception of the moment never really happens - we don't see the world as it is now, we see it through our past actions. 

Bergson and art take in consideration for the reconfiguration reality on different levels.