When cooking you must follow rules?
It is one of the few things that connects all of nature, especially humankind, everyone needs to eat. Eat Reappropriation Exchange Smell/Aroma Noise Taste Abject Desire Sensual Preparation Male Femal Gender roles The body Power Status waiter cook dish washer consumer Reaction Constructs The act of ordering food Food at home Food at a restaurant Food at a friends Food at school Food on the go public transport Functional Rituals 'Site' specific foods Still life Class Wealth Consumption Brand Shopping Plastic Waste Shortage Organic Chemical Morality Humble Instinct Shit Over the easter break, I realised that I love food. I spend most of my time cooking, either for myself or more enjoyably for others. Food is something I'm passionate about and would love to make a major part of my work. Concepts to explore, research and understand: EXPERIENCE AS ART - Art as experience, John Dewey RELATIONAL AESTHETICS - Nicholas Bourriaud - http://www.kim-cohen.com/seth_texts/artmusictheorytexts/Bourriaud%20Relational%20Aesthetics.pdf This is a collaborative anti/art blog that I curate with Jack.
It came about slightly by chance, we were two of few who attended the blogging seminar and one of the exercises was to create a blog, ours carried on. Inspired by kitch, naff-ness, cliche and other such things. It runs alongside my studio practice as a sort of relief from the, although my work isn't serious, structure and regimentsy of the institution of university. http://the-seventh-blog-now.tumblr.com/ I found a whole stack of paint colour tests in a freebie box outside my studio, naturally I took them, without a clue what I would do with them.
The leftover chalks I had bought for the St Mawes trip were still sitting unused on my desk and I wanted to use these, I like their playfulness, versatility and annoying-ness, how nothing is free from chalk powder, I managed to stain my jeans. There are three short panels of flooring next to my desk. Two got chalked. It is a playful piece of work that looks to utilise what little available space there is becoming in my studio, I edited the matching backgrounds in on my phone, it was influenced by the ad hoc nature of fluxus and the desire to just play and produce something new with materials that were to hand. I've been wanting to work with the internet recently but haven't known how to go about it. Jon Rafman who uses Google Earth screen shots as photography, this challenges the notion of ownership of art and explores the rich territory of the internet as a means of producing art work. http://9-eyes.com/ http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jul/14/google-street-view-new-photography A Digital Derieve. I made this video though a screen recording of me travelling around the World on Google Earth. I made a mechanism for continuing whilst I ate my lunch. The beautiful glitch. A Fieldguide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit
A very intriguing read. A curated collection of American history, art theory, philosophy and personal memoir. -THE BLUE OF DISTANCE- Ideas and quotes from the book. "The other kind of lost, not of dis-location but if total immersion, where everything else falls away." "Temporary land" "There are fossils of seashells in the high Himalaya's. What was and is are different things." "...the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit..." "Lose the world, gain your soul." "It's touching the edge of the unknown that sharpens the senses." "To be lost it to be fully present, one does not get lost, one loses themselves." "Emptiness is the track on which the centred person moves." Trace - shul - Tibetan A mark that remains after that which has made it has passed by - a footprint for example or the ground where a house once stood. A path is a shul. "The ghosts of garments" "Maps are never precise, no matter how accurate. Yet the less detail, the more accurate" for geology and paths and roads are constantly changing, to be more vague is to be more open to change and still be accurate. "representation is always partial." Embracing emptiness, not to be confused with 'lack'. A photograph can stand in for a work of art too ephemeral/personal/remote to be exhibited. An interest in the digital and glitches led me to read this journal article: (you should too, it's interesting)
www.e-flux.com/journal/in-defense-of-the-poor-image "The poor image is a copy in motion." "defies copyright" Sharpness and resolution are to do with class, status and identity. In one of Woody Allen's films the protagonist is constantly out of focus. "A ghost of an image" "A worse lie" "The poor image is no longer about the real thing—the originary original. Instead, it is about its own real conditions of existence: about swarm circulation, digital dispersion, fractured and flexible temporalities. It is about defiance and appropriation just as it is about conformism and exploitation." "The emergence of poor images reminds one of a classic Third Cinema manifesto, For an Imperfect Cinema, by Juan García Espinosa, written in Cuba in the late 1960s.8 Espinosa argues for an imperfect cinema because, in his words, “perfect cinema—technically and artistically masterful—is almost always reactionary cinema.” The imperfect cinema is one that strives to overcome the divisions of labor within class society. It merges art with life and science, blurring the distinction between consumer and producer, audience and author. It insists upon its own imperfection, is popular but not consumerist, committed without becoming bureaucratic." compressed reduced squashed uploaded downloaded reformatted reedited ripped remixed copied pasted bootlegged HIGH-TECH vs LOW TECH
HIGH ART vs LOW ART DIGITAL vs ANALOGUE GOOD vs BAD ONLINE vs OFFLINE TRUTH vs LIES I had a tutorial today and I said I was struggling to produce work, then Gillian called me a potato. She had to explain. You know those potatoes that get forgotten at the back of the cupboard, they sit there quietly, slowly growing, putting out feelers, gathering. And then you find them and want to throw them away.. Or plant them. Maybe she meant something more like this? Thanks?
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