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[Oct. 22nd, 2006|04:04 pm] |
Yesterday I travelled the length of this country and back to go and see Adam Chodzko. http://www.thecentreofattention.org/blogadam.html. AC is going to be my mentor thanks to
Elin and BAS6. I am very happy to have a mentor and extremely lucky to have bagged AC.
I got asked lots of questions in depth about myself and my art practise. It's good to be annalysed in such a fashion, and I appreciated even more the so because it is like being at art college which is what I am trying to do ( I have a place at Chelsea for Fine Art MA, but decided to defer to apply for funding/ raise money/ finish unfinished business )although I havn't quite got there yet. So to have a meeting like this which was like a tutorial was
brilliant. We focussed on a few things. My name which you all know is Lady Lucy and what impression it gives, what work would you expect to see by a Lady and all that, Like for example if you meet me right, do I have a constructed persona or am I performing Lady Lucy. Was
I drawing in the "naive style" on puropse. Why do I give more attention to the text in my drawings than the faces of people? . It's great being in the presence of an artist such as AC , just makes you realise how much work there is to be done, how far there is to go and what there is to be a cheived. Anyhow I thought I would write about it because it's useful for me to remember the details of the tutorial so I don't forget and thought I would share with you. Ultimatly these are all questions that need questioning and answering.
DDT as ever seemed to provoke more questions. Who are Super Group Extreme ? Did they do all the music for your film, what is the most important moment in the film for the viewer ?
I think AC wanted to understand me so he could do his job better. I am looking forward to hearing about AC and the way he does his projects. I saw some clues and hints around.
He lives a lovely family existence in Whitstable.
A sign that had been used for his Better Scenery project and was formerly in a Sainsbury's carpark near the Camden Art Centre was used as a table top in his house.
He used to have a studio at Delfina, until it's demise, now he is sharing a small space in a shed ? with a Whitstable painter.
He says it's difficult to gage how many shoes he is going to get for M Path, and how hard it is knowing how much work to do for it.
I saw the sea and the sea saw me. Whitstable weather was interchangeable with sun and rain. It was raining when I got there, but seemed to clear for our meeting which took place in a bar on the sea front. I noticed that Whitstable also has those fishing huts that can be seen in Hastings.
The journey as I thought was a little gruelling. You know that feeling when you are about to travel and you know something, a little something is going to go wrong ? Like you forget your toothbrush or your tickets or your money or your phone isn't charged or something like that? When I got to Bristol Temple Meads and quarter past nine I realised that my ticket was going from Parkway at 9.31/ And the ticket I got over the internet could only be used on that train. So had to pay an extortinate excess fee. Lucky I don't think I am paying...
Homework that I have set myself.
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Think about Lady Lucy.
Think about how my work is presented in exhibition flyers, invitations, catalouges, ect.
Look at work of the following artists / ideas
Edditing in Harmony Korine's Julian Donkey Boy
http://www.harmony-korine.com/paper/main/resources.html
Political Cartooning
http://www.politicalcartoon.co.uk/
Marlene Dumas
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/marlene_dumas.htm
James Pyman
http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2006/10/12/34188.html
http://www.s1artspace.org/FRONT/index.htm
Adam Dant
http://www.drawingroom.org.uk/exhibitionsPastAdamDant.htm
William Kentridge
http://www.artnet.com/artist/669708/william-kentridge.html
Ida Applebroog
http://www.lowegallery.com/ida_applebroog/index.html
Sue Williams
http://www.nomorepink.com/site.htm
Rita Ackermann
http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/rita-ackermann/
Ellen Cantour
http://www.contour2005.be/UK/ec.htm |
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| They shoot horses don't they ? // Ballroom dancers around the room. |
[Oct. 19th, 2006|11:29 am] |
http://www.longpauses.com/blog/2006/08/collins-and-jost.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_dancing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Shoot_Horses%2C_Don%27t_They%3F
http://www.myspace.com/theyshoothorses
Saw "They Shoot Horses Don't They ?" last night. A few months ago we had a dance competition
in Seymours family club for a night called disco ordination. This dance competition only went on for about hlaf an hour if that and it was fun, but They Shoot Horses is about a sadistic dance derby set in depression era US. If you are looking for happy endings, Dirty Dancing, Stricly Ballroom, Saturday Night Fever, blah blah this film aint gonna give you any. It's about People being the ultimate spectacle. It's so ahead of it's time, and
has parellels with how we watch reality TV.
In my own life I am using my studio ( It has a table and chair) and although I like being tucked away where no one knows where I am in my fantasies, Reality is that I do like to chatter chatter chatter and do feel free to come and say hello. It's so great having a space. Am about to head down there now.
So I am looking at competitive dance in my drawings but as in Ballroom dancing. and from
ballroom dance magazines from the 50's 60's and 70's, from a publication called Ballroom dancing times. I guess what interests me in making these drawings are the attention to detail of a publicity shots, published in an enthusiasts magazine that have only really be seen by ballroom dancers. Yesterday I managed to get hold of some more karisma pencils, there are still a few in Bristol Fine Art. I layed all the drawings out to look at the yesterday. It was dust free up in Art Husband's studio, so we went up there.
I've decided I think they will work well in a line or maybe in blocks of four, so you can pay attention to them. I have drawn more than I thought I was going to, probably about 37, so that's good. Need to make a few more.
So if your in Brighton over the next few weeks you should come and see Desination Blatz.
http://www.phoenixarts.org/exhibitions.htm#blatz
Tomorrow school kids customizing T shirts, got them so great spray paint.
Friday Whitstable to meet http://www.adamchodzko.com Gruelling journey to do in a day ( 8 hours) but should be fun none the less. |
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| An artist needs to be good to her self as well |
[Sep. 15th, 2006|06:49 pm] |
Today I spent some money on some things for myself.
Underwear and Jeans from T K Maxx and some other things that ladies like and another thing to make me feel more like a lady.
I don't do this very often. But I have been working really hard.
Normally I only treat myself to nice food and art materials. Which are pretty important as art materials help you make art and well you need foof to survive. But today I felt like it was the right day to treat me, and so I did. |
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| plan b new out / V I M / V I P |
[Aug. 15th, 2006|12:58 am] |
New Plan B Mag out. get it while you can. Next month going monthly.
Just finished pic of Outkast for next one.
http://www.planbmag.com
Tomorrow got a VIM. A very important meeting. A curator is taking me on a train
to London to meet another curator and see a gallery. Wish me luck !
Friday come to Quasi at The Cube. Guess who gets to take the one and only Janet Weiss out to dinner ? |
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| Revelations: from 8.11.05 / Diane Arbus at The V and A |
[Apr. 15th, 2006|06:24 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | art, art and life, artists, diane arbus, feminist, germaine greer, jem cohen, lists, new york city, photographers, photography, v and a museum | ] |
How could I come to the Diane Arbus retrospective/ celebration/ biographic at
The V and A and not write in my very own book of revelations.
I am intrested in Diane Arbus not only because she was the fore runner of
modern masters of today such as Todd Slonz and Nan Goldin.What really strikes me about this show is the attention to detail given to the photographers practise.
Documented is what camera she used. The Rollieflex and Nikon 35 mm. Such classics. How she made notes and lists in her diary and notebooks and how these
ideas were proposed to magazine editors.
Diane Arbus's mehods remind me of the wonderful Jem Cohen film Lost Book Found. which reminds me of the book Joe Gould's secret.
I shall re read what Germain greer has to say about Arbus. Who made a claim that in her use of ordinary and street people she took power over them to make her photography. But to me this is pure vanity. Germaine doesn't like the photo that was taken and there probably is a spookiness about it, as Arbus died soon after.
Arbus makes revelations to the viewers through her work. We truly see the world
as we have never seen it before when we view her work.
Different personalities and wondrous humanities juxtaposed against each other.
If anything this show makes me know that it's important to make lists, to get things done. It makes me feel like this relevant and possible to be an artist today. It's just a shame that one morning in 1971 Diane Arbus wrote suicide on her list of things to do that day. |
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