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!

Books……

This is an awesome book that I bought, it helps you when you have those moments of losing your  inspiration….Its such a fantastic book, it shows you that at any given moment, no matter where you are, there are hundreds of things around you that are interesting and worth documenting….For example:

Go for a walk, identify and document existing ‘art’ that you find, such as things that are not created on purpose ie, stains on the pavement, rust, paint, things that are damaged, bird poo or arrange different random objects that you find.

Record and document everything you consume or everything you purchase on one day, for one week.(i like this one, when i have some time will do it)

“Everyone is an artist”- Joseph Beuys

Tim Head…Installation Artist

Installation artist Tim Head had been around since the early 1970’s and when I came across his work i was immediately drawn to his use of projecting images onto gallery space walls and onto all sorts of everyday household objects.  

He said : ” The projected images cast onto the darkened gallery space conjures up the compelling suggestion of a ghostly presence, but are merely the pale residue of an intangible past, forever frozen in time and place ”  Tim Head 1989

Jordan Baseman

His practices focus on belief systems, the motivation of the human spirit and lived experience. The entire foundations of his current works are real and rooted in the unpredictable nature of the interview and observation processes. He has been filming, observing, recording and working with people in order to create edited, semi-narrative, poetic, documentary-like films. 

Current research investigates ideas around contemporary portraiture, narrative structure, the manipulation of recorded information, animation, authenticity and documentary. The resulting work seeks to question: image, identity, trust, desire, power, faith, belief, love, responsibility, hate, work, passion, religion, authority, aspiration, fear, life and death. 

We were lucky enough to have Jordan Baseman come to the SOA to give a lunchtime lecture, and afterwards some of us were lucky enough to have  a talk with him…I find his films very evocative.  His use of humour and way of editing make his films, both witty and upsetting.  

Check out his website….

http://www.jordanbaseman.co.uk/

I find him highly influential and find his visual style highly engaging, intense and sometimes disturbing.

Jenny Savage……

Jennie Savage has a research based practice which draws on documentary techniques. She has a particular interest in exploring the place between public spaces, town planning, constructed landscapes and the human story: the lived lives and personal narratives connected to those sites. Working through a process that uses archiving and intervention she seeks to map the other life of a place or community in order to reveal a complex situation, a micro- structure or simply an unheard voice.

Zoe Irvine…….

We were lucky enough to have Sound artist Zoe Irvine come to The School of Art to give  a lunchtime lecture last year.  In all honesty I wasn’t that into in her work at the tim, but I thought her ideas and concepts were really impressive.

However, after coming into my 3rd year and following a completely different artistic path than textiles (which i still love), having never thought I would be into Multi Media art, i was really impressed with her work when i sat down and had a closer look….

 

Magnetic Migration Music is an ongoing found sound work which collects, listens to and remixes ‘migrating tape’ – fragments of audio cassette tape found traveling through the landscape. The hub of the project is www.magneticmigration.net MMM is a participatory project and has made broadcasts, installations, exhibitions and publications. Most recently it was included in Save the Day at the Kunstbüro in Vienna, Borderphonics in Paris, the East Wing Collection at the Courtauld Institute in London and Interference: Public Sound also in London     Listen to an extract from Pas de Calais, which mixes found tape fragments, recorded interviews and soundscapes collected in the near the Sangatte Red Cross Centre in MMM’s first focus project in 2002.  Magnetic Migration Music – Pas de Calais was was released in 2003 with accompanying 30p colour book.

Irvine is an Associate Lecturer on the Time Based Art Course in the School of Television and Imaging. 

Irvine’s practice includes installations, audio publications, net works, participatory works and broadcasts.