Susan Hiller – Resounding (Infa-red) Francis Alys When Faith Moves Mountains Description: Linear Geological Displacement & real-life Miracle – moving of mountain 4-inches Fabiola Faith as a investment in concrete utopian possibility Heightened awareness of religion shaping politics in present day society Conflicting sources of religious belief – e.g. Christianity vs. Islam Renee Stout… Continue reading Religion & Religiosity| New Maps of Heaven – 29.02.16
Month: February 2016
Walter Benjamin Seminar – 29.02.16
O’Kane’s Blog Extract: in reference to Girlhood (2014/15, Céline Sciamma) The Storytller: ‘Reflections on the works of Nikolai Leskov’ Key Points: Loss beings ew value to the object being diminishes Line of Progress Storytelling vs. Novel vs. Information vs. Fairytales – a reflection of societal changes Information – Fairytales – the idea of ‘Fact’ Information… Continue reading Walter Benjamin Seminar – 29.02.16
Skin Texture(s)
The finishing touches with the clay mask involve small pore details and skin textural inconsistencies being made to the casting. I really want to emphasise the hyperrealist nature LifeCasting and am trying to avoid smooth casting finishing techniques as much as possible. This involves modelling tools and a scalpel to make small marks onto the… Continue reading Skin Texture(s)
Sculpture & Texture
Layering: perhaps a clay/silicone layered depiction Found images that display some very interesting sculptural textures and shapes that could influence further castings within my practise. Although I remain interested in very hyperrealist depictions of the human face, I feel that more abstract, experimental depiction could also be an interesting comparison. Textual techniques: Full body casting that… Continue reading Sculpture & Texture
Silicone Mask
http://www.make-up-fx-forum.com/index.php?topic=770.0 http://modelshop.co.uk Materials: Silicone Mask Sheet Metal: (T) Pewter Sheet (£60) Paste Wax (Table Release): (T) Forumla 5 (£9.79)/Ambersil Pur400 (£11.66)/Bisons Paste Wax (10.70) ***Baby Powder ***Poly-Ease 2300 spray release (Silicone Release Spray from EBay/Amazon) OR Screwfix (£3) (nearest store, Brixton) Plaster Rasp (T) (£9.52) ***2500 mould release or Ultra 4 Mould (Universal Mould Release: 4D ModelShop… Continue reading Silicone Mask
Lifecasting: Display Casing
Before and After: Finished Mould (left), Fresh Casting (right) Although my previous discussions touched upon the way I will mount my work, a glass display case still seems to be the most appropriate method of display. I have decided that for the exhibition I will only display the head of my sculpt, in the preceding… Continue reading Lifecasting: Display Casing
Walter Benjamin Seminar – 22.02.16
A comprehensive analysis of specific passages of the unfinished Arcades Project with particular attention to the architectural aspects of Paris. Extended Talking Points: God is dead – Friedrich Nietzsche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deicide The widely quoted statement by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, it first appears in Nietzsche’s 1882 collection The Gay Science (AKA “The Science of Joy”) However, It is most famously associated with Nietzsche’s… Continue reading Walter Benjamin Seminar – 22.02.16
Lifecasting Photoshoot 2
Final images of my sculpted clay head/bust before making my silicone mask. The has been significant changes to the backside of the cast, a lot of the seal lines present when casting being smoothed to create a smooth, fluid skull. The has also been a reshaping of the temples of the head to make it… Continue reading Lifecasting Photoshoot 2
External Exhibition: Display
As there will be inherent properties in terms of display in the External Exhibition, I feel that I have to be very creative in how I mount my head. e have an open space and few members which means there is a lot of floor space to work with and I feel that I should… Continue reading External Exhibition: Display
Picture & Code: Photography and the Lifeworld – 21.02.15
Photography and the Lifeworld ***Lifeworld – Our intuitive way of being in the world and our experience of the world A world beyond perception Photography’s link to ‘experience’ What is Post-Photography? Photography as non-representational, non-indexical and non-realistic. Photography as ‘metaphysical’ Anti-humanist experience of Photography Flusser’s Ladder of Abstraction – Into the Universe of Technical Images… Continue reading Picture & Code: Photography and the Lifeworld – 21.02.15
Hyperrealism in Sculpture
Hyperrealist Sculptures Materials: Isopropyl Myristate Forum: http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=154473 Instructions: Prep clay positive to mould – using Cut thin pieces of sheet metal and press into clay around the entire exterior (inch behind ears) of the mould then close gaps using tape to create clean wall in finished mould release table and sculpture – use paste wax… Continue reading Hyperrealism in Sculpture
Unit 8 & Dissertation Proposals [Notes]
Unit 8 Essay: Starting Points: Research ‘PREDICTING THE FURURE OF TECHNOLOGY’ The Arcades Project: Convolute (pg. 27 onwards) The Dialectics of Seeing – Susan Buck-Morss/Walter Benjamin Overcoming Conformism – Ester Lesley The Death of Art – Hegel Dissertation Notes: 18th April deadline for Unit 8 (3000 words) 31st May deadline for 500-100 (words) Dissertation Proposal… Continue reading Unit 8 & Dissertation Proposals [Notes]
Walter Benjamin Seminar – 08.02.16
A comprehensive group analysis of ‘ Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) and ‘Thesis on the Philosophy of History’.
Lifecasting Photoshoot
I felt that it is important to document this process, and as a result I have used the photography studio to capture the details of my (2) Easy Flow Casts and the Monster Clay Busts before I make the necessary refining to the objects.This I feel was successful in capturing the finer details of the… Continue reading Lifecasting Photoshoot
Monter Clay Casting
A secondary aspect of the casting is to create a clay bust. More in line with my experience of sculpture (as seen in the V&A and The British Museum), this I feel is an important part of the refining process. What (Monster) Clay Moulds will allow me to do is to really sharpen up at… Continue reading Monter Clay Casting
Abjection – 08.02.16
The Return of the Abject – Julia Kristeva’s ‘Powers of the Horror‘/”Pouvoirs de l’horreur (1982) The work is an extensive treatise on the subject of abjection, and draws on the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan to examine horror, marginalization, castration, the phallic signifier, the “I/Not I” dichotomy, the Oedipal complex, exile, and other concepts appropriate to feminist criticism and queer theory. According to Kristeva, the abject marks a… Continue reading Abjection – 08.02.16
Remoulding Cast
This initial casting was very nerve-racking for me as I was unsure as to whether I had mixed together the correct quantity of Easy Flow (1A:1B). In addition, when looking at the initial drying period of the resin, I could see the mood itself sagging and creasing within the interior of the cast which signalled… Continue reading Remoulding Cast
External Exhibition
In terms of our External Exhibition my group (4) and I have been working hard to really from up our collide idea, theme and venue for the exhibition. We have decided to be very out there and go with a ‘Yellow Storage’ Facility as the site of our exhibition. We have secured ourselves as 150-175ft… Continue reading External Exhibition
Comparative Photos
As you can see there is great similarity between the car and the sitter. Although there is significant finishing that need to be cone to the cast(s), I feel that it will be greatly improved by casting in Clay and remoulding to make the details more smoother and defined, before resting in a silicone mould.
Easy Flow Casting
***Note that these cast(s) need to sanded significantly, with unwanted areas removed before being photographed in the photography studio in the following weeks In-Studio Imagery Cast 1: *** detail contained with this initial casting (i specific reference to the fair fibres and skin fragments over the entire profile of the face) has given me ideas in terms of the later Silicone Casting… Continue reading Easy Flow Casting
Life Casting
plaster applied all over the lower face and jaw, with straws in the nose finished mould on a clay slab, ready to be filed with glass wax and left to set In preparation for my ‘whole head’ casting I shadowed another student as he cast his lower face and jaw in plaster, for moulding into… Continue reading Life Casting
Walter Benjamin Seminar – 01.02.16
Analogy of the flooring in A Block Benjamin as a seer – superstitious term (can he see into the future?) Traces of the past in objects of the present ***Infinite significance Any moment or object of historical significance ***Aphorisms or Maxims as an example of Benjamin’s later work (numbered paragraphs) as speculations or theories on… Continue reading Walter Benjamin Seminar – 01.02.16
Art School: Pedagogy ‘Of’ and ‘For’ Art- 01.02.16
Gauguin, Les Alyscamps, (1888), Musée d’Orsay, Paris How art education intersects with ideas, concepts and problems for artistic production Pedagogy – “to lead a child” – So now it generally means the study of being a teacher or teaching Paul Gaugin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death.… Continue reading Art School: Pedagogy ‘Of’ and ‘For’ Art- 01.02.16
Casting Options
Casting in Monster Clay