More Ideas, Links & Research
After yet another inspiring critique session with Kate, Helen and Derek, the following ideas and links were shared with me:
DEREK:
* Ana Mendieta - Maybe we've talked about her & your work before.
Ana Mendieta, Isla, 1981, black and white photograph, 101.6 x 76.2 cm, 40 x 30 in., Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York, © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection
"My art is founded on the belief that there is a universal energy that runs through everything from insect to man, from man to soul, from soul to plant, from plant to galaxy." Ana Mendieta
* I didn't get all that much from the video--I thought she was going to get into realms of AI more, and people like Rafik Anadol. Which in a few years will seem quaint by comparison to what AI'll be doing then. She still seems to be thinking about nature as nature and not so much "nature"?
* Arakawa & Gins, their reversible destiny project, has your name all over it!!!!!
* I'm wondering if it's all got less to do w/the media and the materials, and more with how to find ways of getting the body and the land/environment/surroundings to interconnect. To be the middle ground in that venn diagram. So the drawing on canvas is appealing I'm guessing b/c of the subtle vibrations that go from the textured surface up through your fingers into your arm etc. So how to imagine other ways of mushing body and media and vice versa, to the point where media is irrelevant, and the body/not-body commingling is what it's all about.
* I just love how the pencil draws on the super black background appear as silver--and also how your linework absolutely comes across as three dimensional!
As always, I love all the various directions where your thinking is going Mizz Pipuh.
(Arakawa & Gins--more than anything, I think those 2 are so worth diving into.
Arakawa + Gins
Some examples of Arakawa & Gins for you JoMichelle--this should definitely float your boat given your interest in the body as the surrounds & vice versa. (Quotes from Wikipedia)
"The room has levels and makes the visitor feel like they are in two places at once. That violates the idea of what a room should be, and by changing the idea of how architecture should work, people may be changing their ideas about how life should work. The Bioscleave House draws its name from the way a body holds, or cleaves, to these surroundings."
"These lofts reflexively articulate the residents’ operative tendencies and coordinating skills essential to and determinative of human thought and behavior; which means to say, the lofts manage, by virtue of how they are constructed, to reveal to their residents the ins and outs of what makes a person, in this case the resident."
Site of Reversible Destiny--Yoro Park
"Yoro Park is an "experience park" conceived on the theme of encountering the unexpected. By guiding visitors through various unexpected experiences as they walk through its component areas, the site offers them opportunities to rethink their physical and spiritual orientation to the world. The site consists of a main pavilion, the Critical Resemblance House, the Elliptical Field and the Reversible Destiny Office."
"The small entrance room, the stairway, and the cylindrical room present an exercise in perception and physical experience. The balance between self-consciousness and perception of one's body is broken down, the "axis" shifts, consciousness leans out, is "doubled," and "something" emerges. This "something" existed in the perceptions of the newborn child that has been forgotten in growing up. People's roots are found in what might be described as "insecurity," "faith," or "heart." It might be called "nostalgia," a certain "atmosphere." The artists speak of artificially creating "instant nostalgia." It is artificially constructed, using something "given," breaking through the logjam of words found in modern thought. They conduct experiments which deal more with the possibilities of physical structures and the human body than of words. It is up to the viewer to determine what is made to happen or actually happens here, and what can be gained from it."
So here are the two videos I mentioned. The first is less than 8 min. and kind of mind blowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8jNGzaRTSE
The 2nd is mind blowing too though a tad longer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOJCS1W1uzg
KATE:
Thoughts for jmp. A bit random. A bit emotional…
Invisibility of History….It feels like what I’m looking at is ancient…something that is within us but also connecting us.
Jean Marie’s Course: “Confronting The Invisible”
A thought: When does a line become nondirectional?
A recent conversation I had with John Rice (an Indigenous Elder in my community):
Over breakfast…
He said, I feel awful
She said, oh no, what’s wrong?
He said, I’m old!
They laughed
He said, it’s terminal
She said, only in this lifetime
He said, maybe
Backwards with light searching for our invisible history:
https://esawebb.org/news/archive/year/2023/
Pictures of Logan and Connor: https://photos.app.goo.gl/PgScZU1fAmRapJDe9
jmp in Mexico: A watcher capturing what others don't see…a thousand fluttering lives in the forest, quietly documented without orange…
A performance: Create lines with ash and then destroy them with breath? Capture it on film??
Sean’s Floe: https://ideasthatfly.ca/Floe.html
Neri Oxman: https://oxman.com/
This book: The Overstory by Richard Powers
Theory of scientific realism and antirealism
The “Information Paradox”? I learned about it here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11863046/
As you tackle all that is: central – disappearing – unexplained – terminal – larger and smaller than anything I can comprehend, what about humour?
HELEN:
Yes to all of these comments, and YES to what you are doing!
And here’s a link to an online version of Emergence Magazine: https://emergencemagazine.org/See you in November
ME:
Eternally grateful for all you and for all of this thought-provoking content x Now time to delve in…