W/C 14 Nov 2011 Tracy Piper-Wright

The Body As An Expanded Field

I really liked this lecture and found it interesting how the body can be used in art.  I was a little horrified by the experiences that Chris Burden .  I appreciated the fact that he was willing to go so far for his art, but shouldn’t there be a line drawn somewhere?  I also really liked a piece by Marina Abramovic called Imponderabilia, where her and another artist called Ulay stood naked in the doorway to an exhibition forcing the patrons to squeeze past them.  The purpose was to see the reactions of the patrons as they moved into the exhibition .  I really like the way this artist uses her own body in it’s most simple form to provide the art.  I’d never heard of this artist before and I found it really interesting looking further into her work.

Working on ....

Uni

The table for a revolution brief is now finished.  The work is on display within the university.  Pictures of the finished pieces are below.  We have now had a new brief called Space and Light. 

Personal

Photo’s of completed work below.

W/C 7 Nov 2011 Yvonne Eckersley

Visual Music

I found this presentation quite difficult to watch due to the flashing images and colour changes.  I found the part about the Ocular Harpsicord interesting.

Working on ...

Uni

Making some progress on the cutlery now, a couple of samples have been made up, through this we have found a design flaw in that they are not very well balanced so we are trying out methods of weighting them down a bit.

Personal

Progress shown below.

Visited

Power of Making Exhibition in the Victoria & Albert Museum London

I was quite disappointed in this exhibition.  I expected it to be bigger than what it was and was expecting it to cover more of the traditional crafts, such as ceramics, glass and metalwork.  I was quite disappointed to see that part of the exhibition was focused on automated making, making using rapid prototyping.  I don’t consider this a craft form at all.  I was impressed by the crochetdermy bear.  I love the fact that she has used a very traditional craft to create something that is quite contemporary.