Keith Tyson : Large Field Array is one of the installations we have been looking at recently, it was displayed at Pace Wildenstein gallery in Chelsea, New York a few years ago, and is utterly incredible!
Within the installation was 230 sculptures, all intricate and beautifully made, everything has a cubic/square form; they were made out of glass, wood, fake human flesh, minature cities, i could go on…
Everywhere you look there is something new, and I think I could've spent days trying to decipher each piece, as they all seem to work as artworks in their own right. All together they are an attack on the senses and leave the viewer completely astonished!
Does anyone else think Easter is completely unnecessary? It's so infuriating that the studios/workshops/libraries at university will be closed!
There are now no seminars left in our Fine Art BA degree at Kingston. Soon we'll have no more core tutorials left and the only thing that is left is the looming degree show.
We are trying out a concept for one of our pieces in that show on friday. It's a performative installation at the Bookable Space at Portland Road Studios and is called HEAVE (please see attached image)
We are going to document it via film and photography and although the work acts as a sculpture and a setting for a performance it will be interesting to see how different methods of recording represents the work.
Have begun experimenting with the laser cutting machine and have cut various works, phrases and texts into the open pages of books. It reminds of stash books, or books in prison dramas which actually hold a chisel a hole to get out.
Although the books act as objects and as sculptures in their own right, the interplay between the text and images in the books is really interesting. Reminds me a little of John Stezaker or John Baldessari work.
This is the outcome of the week apart. Oddly enough we used the same materials, and our works were influenced by a specific other artist; one was an artist admired and one despised. There is an element of ying and yang and it was said that our personalities can be clearly seen within the work that was made. It was a strange week, liberating in someways but disjointed and lonely in others. Can't wait to get back to making new works together.
02.09 Rules
1. For one week we will make seperate artworks
2. We will not talk about the works to each other
3. We will not give any clues about the works to the other (not be covered in it, leave bits of it around the house, etc)
4. We will not speak to anybody else about what we are making
5. The works must be finished by Friday at 1pm
6. The works must not relate to any other works we have made together
7. We must not spy on each other
