Finally finished installing the 8 TV screen installation, I have had some really encouraging feedback about the films I have made over the past six months. I have yet to upload them to my blog! A severe lack of cash and my 3.2mp phone camera will have to do for now as I gave up my posh phone with camera apps in a bid to save money for the show! I had a nightmare with vistaprint in the week, I ordered my 4 large banners for the show, which came rattlin’ around in a flimsy box with absolutely no protection, they had been squashed in transportation, which sent me into a rage!!! Would you believe the call centre is in the Caribbean!!! An extra 4 were sent yesterday from the Netherlands and I can say they were packaged in the exact same way, with no poster tubes, again rattlin’ around in a flimsy box, but this time not squashed!! Needless to say I wont be using this company again! Assessments start this Wednesday so with the bank holiday we have one day to put the finishing touches in place! I have included my artist statement for Negotiated Study 2
“The shape or identity of an object or person may change several times within a given video clip. Rock videos represent a full breakdown in the sense of a rationality coherent world. Few of the videos offer a linear narrative; most will jolt the viewer with a rapid succession of images – often less than two seconds long – that have little obvious relation to each other.” (Gergen: 1991)
Loss of identity has been a primary focus of the studio work. Using personal film footage to create a television installation of eight screens is a representation of the confusion felt around the loss of identity. I have felt raw, exposed and afraid of the work I have produced but can now separate myself from the past. It could be described as a personal exorcism.
The photographic work is part of my journey over the past three years which acts as a visual reference a reminder of the various emotional states I have passed through. I continue to search for medium in which I can truly express myself. The video work is part of an ongoing project which has encouraged me to step out of my comfort zone in order to push forward within my studio practice. A chapter of my life is rapidly coming to an end and I have documented this process by using digital media.
I have been inspired by the work of Martin Creed, Susan Hiller and Sarah Lucus, I am drawn to the visual language and a new format is emerging through my work. I make conscious connections, aiming to extract meaning from from fragmented moments, coincidences and synchronicities experienced in the present. There are of course those transparent moments that equate to the whole sum.
“The whole is other than the some of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing up is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful.”
(Koffka: 1935)
There is a strong connection to the language of dreams and the surrealist ethos, this is ever present and feeds the imagination, I work intuitively which encourages self -expression. The journey is only the beginning; I am not travelling through this life just to reach the end.
