Louise Bourgeois – The Spider, The Mistress, and The Tangerine

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois is one  of my greatest inspirations, her work is sculptural , and has so much emotion embodied in each piece.  Her early life and relationship with her parents are the key factors in her work.  She conveys feelings of anger, betrayal, jealousy, guilt, abandonment and loneliness, but with playfulness.  

She has said that the intensity of her emotions were too much to handle and that  her emotions are her demons.  Living her life through self questioning, she has realised that creating art can invoke and heal the deepest wounds. 

I can really relate to Louise Bourgeois, and I can honestly say that no other artist has inspired me or moved me  as much as she has.  

Alvin Lucier…..

 

Alvin Lucier has pioneered in many areas of music composition and performance, including the notation of performers physical gestures, the use of brain waves in live performance, the generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media, and the evocation of room acoustics for musical purposes.  His recent works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and orchestra in which, by means of close tunings with pure tones, sound waves are caused to spin through space.

Gregor Schneider

http://www.postmedia.net/01/schneider.htm

 

Gregor Schneider began working onHaus ur in 1985 at the age of sixteen. The rooms on view here are part of his ever-changing construction and reproduction of the interior of his house in Rheydt, Germany. This work is built within his house and is contained—by a slight scaling down—within the rooms that the work exactly replicates. For this exhibition, a suite of rooms has been carefully cut out and transported to the museum where the artist has reassembled them. Presented as a sculptural environment, Schneider’s work reveals evidence of his various layers of construction, the elaborate process of their making, and the intense materiality involved in re-creating an entire home.Haus ur is a quotation and extension of the original that reveals how an apparently normal and benign space can trap and disorient through illusion and mystery.

Body, space, image….

This is a book on Performance and the spaces performers inhabit.  I think it’s really important to cross reference your research as this brings in other creative elements and makes you think of things you wouldn’t have otherwise imagined.  This book has helped me immensely and I came across performance/installation artists, Tim Head, Miranda Tufnell and Chris Crickmay,although i couldn’t find any images on the internet, have a look at the book, its ace!