Assignment 3 - first presentations

I missed the second week because I was at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film.

Fiona
Human behaviour | signposts to survival | complex subjects | spiritual tone | work on emotion and intellect
Her studied piece was Steve McQueen's feature film 'Hunger' on hunger strikes at Belfast Prison. McQueen startes "sensory detail brings you closer to the emotional"(NY Times Article).

Sue
Landscape | journeys | photography | found objects | book formats
Studied Birgit Skiöld, printmaker who creates subtle pieces that include some colour and embossing or debossing.

Maia
Movement & force | humour | revealing metaphysical world through everyday







Fischli & Weiss video 30minute of a lot of different materials and elements all reacting with one another to cause a domino effect. Must be the inspiration for the Honda advert. Unlike everyone else she also showed a photograph of a piece of her own work- a golf ball apparently keeping a heavy hotel door open, and talked about her previous work which was documented in which she attempts to become an amateur astronaut.

Jo
Decorative | humorous | informative | narrative | passionate
Hers was on Spike Milligan. I didn't know much about him really, except that my Dad has his signature on a note, but it was very interesting. Provoked a discussion on mental illness and art.

Mine
I chose to do mine on Tessa Farmer. You can see the presentation in PDF format here (it wouldn't let me upload it as a .ppt, thinks it's corrupted- blame OpenOffice) and read the notes here. I only discovered this artist the day before so the presentation but thought she had so much in common with my work I really wanted to do my presentation on her. I hadn't actually decided on what my five criteria were at the time I did this presentation, but here they are now:

Miniaturism | narrative | organic/growth | fantasy | creepiness

I found this a very useful exercise. I found out things about my own work I had not yet pinned down, plus discovered new artists on my own and from others.

Chris suggested I look at the work of the Polish/Russian animator Vladislav Starevich which us very relevent to my work as he animated insects. Maia suggested David Altmejd (left) who makes sometimes grotesque and sometimes magical sculptures of decaying/crystallising figures like werewolves and birdmen.