Ink, perhaps better than painting, lends itself to this type of representation and always been an obsession of mine.
I have also previously been concerned with illustration and the amalgamation of text and image. Another former project was based upon the stories that other people wrote for me. I created a book of these stories accompanied with ink illustrations which I feel were more self-indulgent than successful. During this same project, it was the first time I explored using physical objects themselves. I posted these stories into bottles i had collected using the 'message in a bottle' format. I also tried to subvert this idea by writing the stories on the surface of bottles. The use of objects and considering the ordinary in an extraordinary way is something that is currently emerging in my practice. Though still relatively unexplored in my work, the use of stories is also a pathway i intend to follow in the future.
Hi Olivia
ReplyDeleteTheres a lot here, and you have certainly progressed well. I like the proposal and feel from this point we can discuss how to work on it to get something right [ less drama, or theatre perhaps, and more what you refer to as an interstice between fascination and obsession/ repulsion as configured into architectures and manifold settings of space and architecture]. The 'Bataillesque' { Georges Bataille] formulation has much to do with cinema and narratives of Otherness [from the Bunuel image I see you have used, which is a sheep's eye or a cow's I believe filmed at the moment of cutting] - in this image it is also about the 'cut' of film sequence and how disruption of reality occurs at a point of violent cut of image. The MTV speed of these cuts is about 1 every three seconds. This also incites Debord's speculation on cinema, and spectacle [ see his work on De Sade also] . An element of cruelty [ Artaud] pivots on psychosis as a splitting into felt spaces of vitality and of death. Dreams often conspire to project images between architectures of death/decay and also at the same time lfe, disorient with colour, [ say blue, art/life, and red, death/cruelty] - I am however interested in James Hillman's accounts of these decaying and parasitical images without symbolic interpretation in 'The Dream and the Underworld'. Also a reference too Michel Serres 'Parasite' and cannibalism. So many artists and filmmakers place emphasis on teh viscera in their work. I suggest that you research more, and try and write an essay on what is self-evidently your area of concern. The Abject is a contentious term, which some Feminists do not like since it suggests that the female is made an object of the 'abject' - in male fears. These are all important topics, and will inform the proposals for performances and events, and the essay.
Peter