Kiki Smith

Thinking of Justina and to all students, 

Such interesting and delicate drawings using variety of materials. 

Broadcast , 2012

Luminary, 2012
mouthblown stained glass, painted, schwarzlot, glass enamel, silver, gold leaf, leaded, brass frame (3 panels each)
202,5 cm x 81,2 cm 

Walking Pig (small), 2004
Bronze
67,3 cm x 47 cm x 5,1 cm

Everywhere (Little Pig), 2010
ink an etching on Nepalese paper, collage, pencil
50.5 cm x 74.9 cm 

Images from Barbara Gross Galerie

Art of Wearable Communication- re-post

I'm re-posting this article about wearable art from last year to share, since Lydia is making a dress with plastic plates. The form of this humorous piece is interesting because of the idea behind- the desire to communicate. 

P.S. Most of the conversations I had yesterday were about making decisions, i.e.,  choosing a material and a method among many options. Your decisions will be the form that deliver the idea the best. All in all, a good artwork should be explained in 3 levels: personal, social and formal. When you start with yourself and think of its meaning in society, to the audience, there's the formal action you need to take. 

Hey all!

I was doing research for a school project when I came across Kate Hartman and found her work very fascinating.

Hartman is interested in people and their interaction with other people and their surrounding. She basically makes these wacky devices which play with different forms of interactions.

Here's some of her work that I really like...

This is called the "talk to yourself hat".. which is pretty self-explainatory.

This one emits muttering sounds which you can listen to yourself or share with someone else.

To see more of her projects, this is the link to Hartman's Ted talk video

For our final project.. I was thinking that "interactivity" would be a nice theme to develop on. What do you think?
- Teresa

Artist- Yeondoo Jung, Hyungmin Moon

I talked with Eric today about these two artists who use the portrait photography genre in interesting ways. One project is Bewitched by Yeondoo Jung where he pictured of a person in their usual environment and then another picture of the same person in the same posture but this time he puts the person in a place where he/she wants to be and what he/she wants to be doing. You can see more pictures of this series through the link. In exhibition, these pictures are shown through slide projector one overlapped to the next. 

 Another project is the series 9 objects by Hyungmin Moon. The artist took the pictures of certain objects in a peculiar way and they almost look like advertisements. The work doesn't give the audience any explanation, but these are in fact favorite objects chosen by people around the artist.

Installation view of 9 objects for scale. 

A work by the same artist for your information. The artist erased all the brand names and texts on the products in display. Related to the conversation with Crystal today, the audience gets an immediate discomfort at first sight as he/she may not discover what is happening in this familiar but strange picture, but at a closer look, it is obvious that there are no names on these drugs which we usually look for. 

More photos on League website

Check out these great shots from last Sunday Germaine posted! 
Thank-you, Germaine! 

http://league-league.org/?p=1338

Tromp L'oeil

While discussing students' proposals and the theme of our exhibition, I get to think of tromp l'oeil a few times. It is basically to create an optical illusion. It could be street art like these below, 

Or Felice Varini's elegant site-specific painting in architectural space. Varini will be a good example for our theme about dimensions and perspectives. 

League workshop by Germaine Koh 2

April 21 League day
On League Sunday, it was sunny, rainy, stormy and then sunny again as we arrived at Elm Park...

In three groups, each developed a new game from existing games with balls, twister, checkers and table tennis.

The first group was thrilled to make up a saturn ball while having some hard time deciding rules at the beginning.

The team of checkers and twister at once works things out very smoothly! 

The second group in development of their new sticky table tennis 

Sticky Tilted Tennis- Started from table tennis, the third group invented a fun and simple game. 

Finale with all playing Ultimate Saturn together.

Is this exercise art? Was this inspiring? Germaine and Bruce finished the workshop by nicely summarising the activity. 

To invent a game together,  it was important to simplify the rules, narrowing down all the ideas. 

I was glad to see all students developing through conversation and no violence was involved... 

 It was also interesting to see how we used everyday materials such as mixing up table tennis and a wrapping tape. This is not different from the process of making art. 

Pay close attention to how your project is being developed this time. And you may come back to this exercise at any time. 

League workshop by Germaine Koh 1

After the presentation, we started to invent new games by mixing existing games or improvising as it goes. 

League workshop by Germaine Koh 1

League Part 1 
April 14 
Vancouver based, internationally renown artist Germaine Koh's project League is a part of Fieldhouse residency program run by Vancouver Park Board. When I learned about League through her presentation at the symposium on community and art last fall at Emily Carr University of Arts, I immediately thought it'll be a great exercise to bring in. 

 "League is an open group of people who gather to play sports and games invented by members of the community. Each game, its equipment, its playing field, and its strategies evolve through trial and improvisation. It’s problem-solving as play."

Germaine and Bruce Emmet, a regular leaguer, artist and a teacher, started with a slide presentation about art and game. As we couldn't see the slides well in the studio due to the skylight, I'm posting them here.