Its been a lovely few weeks of but still did some work, just enough to keep things ticking along. Been thinking about the space and how l want to display the work so went back to my notes of dissertation, looking at artist’s who display random objects and why they do this, as with Santiago Sierra and Spanish artist.
His piece in Kunst-Werke,Berlin 2000. viewers where condronted with boxs concealing refugees from Chechyan seeking asylum in Germany. Sierra installation implyes that silence is as powerfull as speech, in this case it is illegal for germany for immigrants to take paid work.
Michael Fried famously described exerting the same effect on the viewer as the silent presence of another person p120 – Installation Art (2005).
Feel this relates to my own practice, vidio is silent but image is strong, its my voice in images.
In my first year did a piece called My Fallen Hero which related to my relationship with my farther which a chair played a part.
“The beholder knows himself to stand in an indeterminate, open-ended – and unexacting – relation as subject to the impassive object. In fact, being distanced by such an object is not, I suggest, entirely unlike being distanced, or crowded, by the silent presence of another person; the experience of coming upon literalist objects unexpectedly – for example, in somewhat darkened rooms – can be strongly, if momentarily, disquieting in just this way.”
Michael Fried: Art and Objecthood (1967)
The link is still there l feel but moved on to my relationship with myself.
