Video Artists
She describes video art as a handbag- "you can pack it all in" I like this metaphor, it's quite freeing, you can put all your art into o a video; audio, visual ,sculptural ,conceptual, abstract and factual . I've often felt video art is limiting but I think being a bit scared of the tech and also the way to present it. Too many boring TV screens with headphones. I really hate that in a public exhibition. I'd rather see a video play with audio. I don't have the concentration to sit in a public space wearing communal headphones especially if there are a lot of them in the exhibition.
I know this is for practical reasons if there are lots of other video audio art in same exhibition.
Just choose one video/ audio work per room and make a feature of it to compliment the other works. I think that s much more effective way to show the work and supply atmosphere in my experience of visiting exhibitions
SUBJECTS: Varied, often social commentary or personal.
APPROACHES: Multi and innovative and she makes use of many props, often homemade, and continuous developments in technology. Bright colours
NOTES:
Pipilottis work is characterised by a signature use of bright colour. In an interview she talks about "standing up for the colours" in a time when a lot of serious art was black and white and formal, her use of colour symbolises the exotic, the gypsy, the possible. She has a very inspiring way of talking about her art.
She describes video art as a handbag- "you can pack it all in" I like this metaphor, it's quite freeing, you can put all your art forms into a video: audio, visual ,sculptural, conceptual, abstract, factual etc.
I think this work is fun, and feels like a femist statement to smash out of expectations because the woman in the video is very feminine looking and smiling. Pipilotti describes it as a " joyful transgression"
This art piece is said to be the inspiration for Beyonce's 2016 video for her" song Hold Up" and was accused of plaguism
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Bill Viola "Martyrs" ( click link for video)
SUBJECTS :Often looking at themes of life and death and transition religon
APPROACHES:include large scale instalation, feels performative, ritualistic.
Uses slow motion and reverse effects on his work.
NOTES:
Looking at martyars and the elements o it's fitting also with the folk / pagan theme vs religion.
Edith Dekyndt
SUBJECTS:
Material based, perceptions if everyday objects and organics, otherworldly.
APPROACHES:
To change petceptionand look in detail at elements in transition.
NOTES:
I like a lot of her physical work and sculptures. As an extention of this in movement its interesting and most relatable to my practice as a person who usually makes things. I like subtly and am inspired by materials and stories.
Peter Weibel
"Lumina" 1977
SUBJECTS: avant garde, observational, concept, expanded cunema
APPROACHES:Multi media,immersive, instalation , ongoing engagement with technology.
NOTES; thus example of his work " lumina" you look at the screen and the screen looks at you, a closed circuit, it's immersive as your are in the multiples of the video as part of a physical installation. The old TV monitors commonly used. Obviously technology improves and other mediums once cutting edge are obsolete and with the fast development of technology this only speeds up, quickly dating methods and equipment used for installing the work. A lot of artists then choosing to use the TV monitor as a symbol now of nostalgia something that was once so feared now seems so wholesome next to the infiltration of new technology.
Christian Marclay
" Time"
SUBJECTS: Connections, audio / visual, montage , time.
APPROACHES: collage/ montage, sourcing and editing , attention to details.
NOTES:
Time is a 24hour ong cinematic montage of movie clips with clocks, edited to show the real time through the duration.
Artist quote" you go to the cinema to forget time, but here you can never forget, it tells you how long you have been here"
Time is a universal subject and open to many interpretations
As far as my research I'm interested in the collage approach and having that one thing that connects all the screens within the work. As a side note, on the subject of time that must have taken so long, its all quite symbolic while being fun. Bittersweet as time is.
Going forward with my own video
how does it all relate to my work?
think about ways you can present video art, screens, new tech , old tech, scale, colour, sound, use good speakers, speakers placed around the room to create stereo.Working withing the limits of your exhibition space, considering other artists making sound work and possible overlap. be imaginative with presentation.
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