Kala Lalit Academy: In New Dehli...from a while ago...and Muntadas: on translation: Rotterdam

4 artists I came across from the Kala Lalit academy when I was in India:

Shila Gupta



Nalini Malanihttp://www.nalinimalani.com/painting/medea_book.htm

Dan Sandin :The Cave:The CAVE™ Virtual Reality Theatre


developers: Thomas A. DeFanti, Daniel J. Sandin

url: http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/CAVE/

CAVE™
The CAVE™ is a multi-person, room-sized, high-resolution 3D video and audio environment invented at EVL in 1991. Graphics are projected in stereo onto three walls and the floor, and viewed with active stereo glasses equipped with a location sensor. As the user moves within the display boundaries, the correct perspective is displayed in real-time to achieve a fully immersive experience.

Bright Advanced Technology (BAT) CAVE™
In June 2001, EVL built the next-generation Bright Advanced Technology CAVE™, or BAT CAVE, using Christie Digital Systems' Mirage 5000 projectors--the first DLP-based Active Stereoscopic projector--and near-black screens for higher contrast.

The BAT CAVE's brightness, clarity and enhanced depth perspective produce more captivating real-time, real-life projection simulations than previous CAVE™ technology.


start date: 01/01/1992
end date: 01/01/2002


Nalini Malini:



jose Noguero



my new reading material along side a little Leopold Von Sacher Masoch :
MUNTADAS: ON TRANSLATION:
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/influx/muntadas/
lovely book. ..."isn't it". (statement)

<em>a project that was running in Rotterdam. fascinating. at times a headache to read and then re-read to "get it".
but it was 'lovely'
references to Walter Bejamin, Octavi Rofes, Marc Auge, barbera Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Bartomeu Mari
ON TRANSLATION
is a series of works

exploring issues of

transcription, interpretation,

and translation.

from language to codes

from science to technology

from subjectivity to objectivity

from agreement to war

from private to public

from semiology to cryptology

The role of translation/translators

as a visible/invisible fact.


( I found this book on one of many meanderings around the bookstores in Sydney's streets) love to u dear stimulating Sydney.....sigh.

Shilpa Gupta

the image from the invitation. the show is called "construction sites"
this will be the last of the anti-gravitational funny floating landscape series. bring on the gravity

backwards, from decay to sensuality..

...one day

so the move has happened...in ditching the old obsession, the pedastool falls from under it and allows me to look at it from a mean perspective (ref. a poem "infatuation" by Jewell-It's meant to be about people, but for me and in this circumstance it is about that dream art project of melted crayons and compressed powder sculptures, powdered car mandalas that float away-well basically all of the temporal works I was going to get in to.)
it caused me to re-evaluate all of my work. the figures...blahh..too literal. the masking, yeah great but everything is looked at from a neutral perspective, distant and 2D. Even if i were to start these sculptures, the ideas are still as 2D as a painting, they are looked at from a distant 'observer" perspective. cold distant, moralising at a 't' and they are that too, mortalising.

who wants that, as an old french boyfriend would say "pfff"
well a young french backpacker. correction

I am doing a 360, or to keep in touch with my contradictions same same but... approach its still kind of the same fascination. so 360: from death and vanitas, temporality etc to sensory/sensuality life and so on. I want the perspective to meld into the experience. instead of having levels of language/visual codes describing/filtering, say the experience of looking at the moon, i want the artwork to operate without that 'layer/densensualisation'. to look at the moon without describing. removing thought. so instead i want the sensuality...the senses: touch sound: the opposite of some of these existentialist headaches I become obsessed with or in some ways, settle for.

It is harder to work with what is here rather than what we can invent. I am exhausted and tired of the overstimulation of my imagination. and quite lonely because of it. it is not a good alternative to life.

My friend Thomas works with a question as his title for his shows. interactive, taking away the observer to the participator role from the onlooker right from the start line. this is normal for installation objectives (pardon the wrong word)and he does quite well with it. He works in Sweden, filling gallery spaces with untastable foods...lovingly hand crocheted fruit, icecreams. all one could desire,unlimited by your imagination, but with no taste. and of course many more evocative pieces.

we are working on a show together for next year...and we were going with the play idea again...invention and so on...me the temporality angle was the thing. not anymore.

tonight i am caved in with canvases and glass and frames everywhere. Although I am happy enough with the resolution of the paintings, I am taking this show (3 weeks away)to be a cleansing of my system from the limitless imagination. i never finish anything, i just keep starting new things. like the messy sequence of dreams. the headache of matrix-style greed and silly answer to desire. or brain farts

i turned my snakes and ladders painting upside down tonight and it was no longer trivial. it was always promising to be trivial. but now subtley optimistic. and I painting over a boring old existentialist escape/imagination painting into a melting, spraypainted garden of eden/paradise with golden apples and golden skulls, and every bird/flower labled with a number. I felt much better. containing it under glass was even better still. trapping the imagination. objectifying the subjective world. escaping stupid escapes. stopping

Affirmation post dream art buster

I repeat: Affirmation post dream art buster.

thanks John Baldessari^^
Maybe i should make a heap of machines. I'm trying to find ways of making the word buster inspirational, you know, kind of like seeing a negative as a positive.
:D

to find out Tim Silver already makes my dream art project (...maybe)

Tim Silver / Artist biography
Tim Silver completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the University of Sydney and a Master of Fine Arts by Research from the University of New South Wales (2002). Silver works with a variety of impermanent media including melted-down Crayola crayons. His work is concerned with the theory that all forms and systems are in a constant state of decay or change. This idea permeates both his objects and installations, themselves captured in this process of decomposition through free-falling photo-narratives.


Post note:
"oh dear"/ "this is wonderful!" what to think.......

Damn. I just got a hot tip that another artist has already created my dream project. Maybe not damn> this is a great thing, the idea is valid, and because he's doing well with it then I'm on the right track with communication. But I still really want to melt crayons and I still have temporality as the dna of any art that I want to make. bugger. In true Integrity style I suppose the idea unexpressed is as temporal as it can get!
so what to do next:
Oh so many things, just find a new way, embrace the art dialogue process not greedilly try to own it :)and finish an exhibition with more commercial intentions due in a few weeks.

Trashy art

IAN STEVENSON
fun artist
:)

hahaha

Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma

believing singing is great for your health

http://www.newcastle.edu.au/Resources/Research%20Centres/ArtsHealth/Choral-singing-and-psychological-wellbeing.pdf

^^ do read if you have time and want to back up that what you know is true. Yes singing is good for your health. But only if you belt out those opera tunes with full gusto. Comes with bonus shivers down the spine and all. (Not specifying if the ambiguity is intentional or not)
lalalala!LALALALALAAA

Games We play

YAELI OHANA

The art below is by Australian artist Yaeli Ohana. It was showing at NG Gallery In June. Sadly i didn't get to the show as I am locked away in a small shed on a farm tying up loose ends with my messy paintings that are driving me crazy. However I loved and appreciated her work from afar. and thought I would share it

outside/inside

Kiasma...how i wish i lived in Helsinki for a year. at least.

Kaleidescopes

this is a fun piece. and something playful and serious all at once. as you move, the image moves with you. It rhythmically moves a projected image of whatever stands infront of it, randomly selecting parts of you and then fracturing them in space., the image is like having fly eyes or being trapped inside a kaleidescope. your relationship between self and representation is illuminated. real time and space in sync with it's representation. uniformity, patterns, wave theory/ quantum physics come to mind
It is by Juhu Huuskanen from 2003. It was taken quite a while ago. I was still blonde :)

Ari Kakkinen and Anne Karin Furunes

Ari Kakkinen:
I love her hiding obsession too.
I saw her work in the image and after exhibition at the kiasma in Helsinki:





Anne Karin Furunes: (below)
The first painting I had seen of the Furunes was a large painting (or the absence of) of a dead woman called Rita Roos. I loved her articulation of the subject through the materiality. instead of painting the portait on the board, she has cut it out. So a series of strategically drilled holes in the board form an image of the subject, but show her missing, like in death.
I am obsessed with temporal sculpture at the moment and can't wait to start getting started after august. I think Furunes work uses materiality and it's application to question the temporality of the subject and nature of portraiture/representation

: on love

(everything is in progess of course, above and below)

: on vanitas (again)

: on hiding

joining the dots project (in progress)

project on perspective. interpretation. games play etc...runs well with everything else i play with. I am thinking of making this one into an artists book...I will write more later. I have to run to hockey...operating on absolutely no sleep, I had yet another all nighter at the easel. i will put up some more images of what i am working on this afternoon











So now I have managed to not fulfil yet another intention...thinking I am master over my own body clock with my trusty tools of coffee and wine to combat the effects of time and nature (and failing me misererably)I will do the unlawful and articulate the intentions behind the visual with the visually written word, anyone knows the aural is far too abstract with all its tones and accents to be taken seriously. seriously= logic rational justification = very non-artistic= i respect music more than ever.

if i was confident enough with my work i wouldn't feel compelled to write anything or have a blog.

so...now successfully undermining everything it is hard to believe I am actually embracing the nature of play and interpretation. easy going and confident. not self aware so much.
play for its creative and somewhat non-contrived nature, and superimposing that idea upon the kaleidescopic effect of interpretation. kaleidescope is the wrong word, except i love its fractured quality and shaking a set of variables and fly eyes result (taking into account the multi-layered experience of any given event if you add memory and reflection and distortion into it.)

but i meant to say the way you can take any situation and ask 12 people and find twelve ofetn vastly different perspectives. So i have taken a photo of two people in karate mode and then made a join the dots game out of it, and taking the same dots and rearranging the numbers have discovered without moving a single dot, the karate men have metamorphosed into dancers, and a skull, (so far) and obviously with my reliable intention and untrusty tools the same dots will transform into a variety of other visual expressions. which i will then join into a continous circular concertina style artist book.
defying all half hearted intentions to sell the work so i can somehow sustain a life of pleasure and travel to the snow.

latest deductive conundrum: my life philosophy:
Happy artist= good work
Happy artist -> travel/trips to the snow
happy artist -> producing work freely
producing work freely = no money incentive/motivation(integrity)
integrity/art process = time = no job
no job + no money = :( no travel trips to the snow
no travel trips to the snow= unhappy artist
unhappy artist= bad work
or
job + money + lack of time/integrity=bad work

OR alchemy is the solution. that non sencical thing that happens when making art occasionally (so says Margaret Throsby) ignore logic because if you followed logic to start with then you probably wouldnt even produce art because what is it's point anyway?