Light is everywhere, but requires us only to stop and look for it. So too is life under our nose, but we sometimes can't see it because we're not looking. It seems that's a departure point for an exhibit I'd love to check out at NY's Guggenheim. From the NY Times: The exhibition “theanyspacewhatever” takes its title from a cinematic term coined by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze to describe anonymous shots of things you look at every day but don’t see, used as transitions in movies.
Great slide show from the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/design/31gugg.html?hp
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Collaboration
I really enjoy working in creative collaborations. This is not always easy. Personality clashes and ego are usually the culprits, and the victim is the artistic process itself. In Elaine's class, it's great that we all respond to each other's works. In particular, I'm delighted Stefan Vraspir and I are working together. He has a great way of thinking about process. We both enjoy experimentation and are more interested in the process than in a perfectionist pre-determined ideal. For the first documentary film I created, I worked with a NY colleague, Richard Adams, and it was the best process ever for the same reason: an ability to respond and create within parameters. Both Stefan and Richard have an ability to leave ego behind and focus on the project itself. Thank you, great collaborators!
Blogging
I'm learning to blog. Thanks for your patience while I figure out how to add more hyperlinks and create meaningful labels. Thanks for reading!
Art as process. Process is art.
An exhibit running until Jan 4, 2009, at The Whitney Museum of American Art in NY features Corin Hewitt. The exhibit is entitled Corin Hewitt: Seed Stage.
I love this exhibit. It demystifies art because the artist and the process are literally at the center of the gallery. In the physical gallery space, Hewitt can be seen creating the pieces which hang on the gallery walls. It is a great meaning for Artist-In-Residence. Here is the information from the Whitney: Artist Corin Hewitt takes up occupancy in the Whitney’s Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Lobby Gallery in this ongoing installation that is part performance art, part live theater, and part meditation on ideas about still life. Redefining the notion of the artist-in-residence, on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays Hewitt physically moves about the space and engages in the manipulation of materials, both homegrown and store-bought, questioning the autonomy of the art object through a process of its constant transmutation. His methods include cooking, sculpting, heating and cooling, casting, canning, eating, and photographing both organic and inorganic materials. The result is an intimate examination of the cycles of transformation and transience.
I love this exhibit. It demystifies art because the artist and the process are literally at the center of the gallery. In the physical gallery space, Hewitt can be seen creating the pieces which hang on the gallery walls. It is a great meaning for Artist-In-Residence. Here is the information from the Whitney: Artist Corin Hewitt takes up occupancy in the Whitney’s Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Lobby Gallery in this ongoing installation that is part performance art, part live theater, and part meditation on ideas about still life. Redefining the notion of the artist-in-residence, on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays Hewitt physically moves about the space and engages in the manipulation of materials, both homegrown and store-bought, questioning the autonomy of the art object through a process of its constant transmutation. His methods include cooking, sculpting, heating and cooling, casting, canning, eating, and photographing both organic and inorganic materials. The result is an intimate examination of the cycles of transformation and transience.
Looking at Music
Through Jan 5, 2009, New York's MoMA has a small exhibit called Looking at Music.
While in NY to research a documentary subject, I took time to see Looking at Music, and I particularly enjoyed a piece by Laurie Anderson. It was a violin that played continuously through use of a pre-recorded track of an actual violin and the track was housed inside the violin object on display. For me, it was an artist's attempt to create a present continuous tense of something ephemeral (sound) and also at the same time, an object of sound embodied. Anderson is a visual artist and a musician, and in the violin piece, I enjoyed how one art form influenced another. For me, the violin piece is playful, meditative, and a great representation of interdisciplinary experimentation in media art. The exhibit as a whole reminded me of the outcomes artists find through collaboration and experimentation.
Here is detailed exhibit information from the museum's website: This exhibition looks at the dynamic connections that occurred from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s with a display of early media works by Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, Steve Reich, Joan Jonas, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, and David Bowie presented alongside related drawings, prints, and photographs by John Cage, Jack Smith, Ray Johnson, and others.
While in NY to research a documentary subject, I took time to see Looking at Music, and I particularly enjoyed a piece by Laurie Anderson. It was a violin that played continuously through use of a pre-recorded track of an actual violin and the track was housed inside the violin object on display. For me, it was an artist's attempt to create a present continuous tense of something ephemeral (sound) and also at the same time, an object of sound embodied. Anderson is a visual artist and a musician, and in the violin piece, I enjoyed how one art form influenced another. For me, the violin piece is playful, meditative, and a great representation of interdisciplinary experimentation in media art. The exhibit as a whole reminded me of the outcomes artists find through collaboration and experimentation.
Here is detailed exhibit information from the museum's website: This exhibition looks at the dynamic connections that occurred from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s with a display of early media works by Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, Steve Reich, Joan Jonas, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, and David Bowie presented alongside related drawings, prints, and photographs by John Cage, Jack Smith, Ray Johnson, and others.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Sharing Light
The photos I'm uploading in these initial posts are images I've taken in the past 2 years. I love observing light. I tend to have my camera with me when I travel; consequently, many posted images come from travels and a few come from iPhone camera function. In this blog, I will share the fun learning with Elaine Buckholtz and some wonderful classmates at Stanford in our class "Light as a Sculptural Object."
To give a sense of where light took me before Fall 2008, I chose to share some of the moments where I tried to catch light. Enjoy...
To give a sense of where light took me before Fall 2008, I chose to share some of the moments where I tried to catch light. Enjoy...
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